Forecast Excellence Assistant

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of fast moving consumer goods with strong operations in more than 100 countries and sales in 190, and a turnover of EUR53bn. With products that are used over two billion times a day around the world, we work to create a better future every day and help people feel good, look good and get more out of life with brands and services that are good for them and good for others. Dedicated to serving consumers and the communities where we live, work and play, Unilever employs more than 168,000 people worldwide.

For the next step on its journey Unilever Benelux is looking for a Volume Forecast Assistant to join the integrated Operations team. 

Less time spent on Running the Business to reinvest in Growing the Business whilst Improving Customer and Employee Satisfaction is the vision of Integrated operations. Integrated Operations brings Customer Development, Supply Chain and Sales within Unilever Benelux together in realizing excellent execution. The 4 principles driving Integrated Operations are: end 2 end ownership, maximized automation, one version of the truth and continuous improvement. Team members within Integrated Operations embrace the vision and their daily work practice reflects the 4 principles of Integrated Operations. 

Competencies key to make Integrated Operations a success, are: 

• Practical creativity
• Enterprising behavior
• Ability to learn

JOB SUMMARY 

The Volume Forecast Assistant is playing a key role in the Forecast Excellence team within the Integrated Operations team. Annually we sell more than 1.3 billion consumer units to our customers. It is important we accurately forecast those units so the factory can produce the products accordingly. 

To improve the forecast accuracy and efficiency a new tool (Demand Forecast Module, DFM) has been developed that uses historical sales data to predict future sales trends of customers per product. The Volume Forecast Assistant will be supporting the Volume forecast specialists in the deployment of the tool in which all the forecast units have to be checked in DFM. The Volume Forecast Assistant will be responsible for several product groups for which he/she will review the forecast generated by DFM and adjust the forecast and forecast parameters where needed. This will be done with cooperation with the forecast excellence team as well as with the Supply chain team. 

WORKING FROM HOME

Due to the COVID-19 measures all Unilever employees are currently working from home and working together virtually. For this project we have online training materials available and we have regular virtual team meetings in which questions related to the project are discussed. Furthermore, the Volume Forecast Assistant will have one Volume Forecast Specialist as first point of contact. 

KEY REQUIREMENTS

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE YOU SHOULD HAVE 

• Preferably 1 year of relevant experience
• Strong Bias for Action, meticulous and high sense of accountability
• Able to work with cross functional and remote teams
• Strong analytical skills, Excel skills (vlookup; match; if;…) and attention to detail
• Able to work with deadlines and both in team as independently
• IT skills: Excel
• Language skills: Fluency in Dutch and working knowledge of English (NL

COMPETENCIES 

• Good analytical skills 
• Practical creativity
• Bias for Action
• Enterprising behavior
• Ability to learn