Demand Planner

Date: Feb 5, 2026

Location: Barcelona, ES

Company: AkzoNobel

About AkzoNobel

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today – while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

For more information please visit www.akzonobel.com

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Demand Planner

The role of the Demand Planner is to manage the forecasting process while working closely together with commercial teams to ensure customer requirements are accurately reflected in the forecast so that the correct business decisions are made.

Analytics

Technical: Gather and interrogate data points to predict future demand requirements.
Feed the forecast into the relevant systems.
Track targets for Forecast Accuracy / BIAS.
Review and propose stocking policy changes.
Support in Health inventory review and analysis (Slob related activities).

Insight to Action

Provide a long-term view for the Demand Review over a 4-to-36-month time horizon.
Deliver actionable insight to inform the S&OE process over 0 to 3 months.
Support the regional Customer Demand Manager with the Demand Step in IBP (Integrated Business Planning) and S&OE (Sales & Operation Execution).

Ways of Working

Drive effective and accurate forecasting with Commercial teams.
Involve cross functional expertise to improve forecast bias and accuracy.

About the Role

Deliver demand forecasts at multiple levels of aggregation to contribute to IBP process, give visibility of our plans to all stakeholders.
Accurately reflect customer plans in our forecasting tools.
Challenge & manage the assumptions used in the sales forecast to inform the correct business decisions and gain learnings to improve future performance.
Monitor performance to forecast and lead discussions to tackle the issues as they arise.
Understand the impact of changes in the forecast on the wider business and keep Supply chain and other relevant functions informed of any changes.
Manage, analyse and take learnings from abnormal customer demands to inform decision making with the S&OE process, whilst striving to meet Customer service requirements.
Gain Product and Customer expertise to understand better their demand patterns and respective actions to improve forecasting bias and accuracy.
Review stocking policy to fit to purpose.
Review inventory health by being an active team member of Slob teams.

About You

Educated to Degree level or equivalent.
Experience in constructing and maintaining forecasts.
Previous exposure to Supply Chain management.
Sales experience is desirable.
Process driven to deliver incremental business efficiencies.
System capability, e.g. SAP, OMP, BI and Power BI.
Advanced Excel knowledge required.
Numerate, analytical and results oriented.
Excellent communication skills at all levels, internally & externally.
English (Advanced level) is a must.

What we offer

Join a growing multinational company.
Stable project.
Professional and personal development in a dynamic environment.
Hybrid teleworking modality.
Dining room benefits.
Flexible remuneration.
Access to training platform.
Free parking and metro 5 minutes walking.
Paddle/tennis and football court free to use on site.

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At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

Requisition ID: 51662