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Amcor

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10,000+ employees

Founded Amcor

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Food & Beverage • Healthcare • Logistics

Amcor is a global leader in developing and producing responsible packaging for food, beverage, pharmaceutical, medical, home and personal-care, and other products. With operations in approximately 40 countries and employing around 41,000 people, Amcor generates annual sales of about US$13. 6 billion. The company is committed to sustainability, focusing on a circular economy and producing innovative, recycle-ready packaging solutions. Amcor collaborates with partners like Berry and Power Roll to expand its capabilities and innovative portfolio in consumer and healthcare packaging solutions, as well as exploring solar photovoltaic applications.

📋 Description

• Own the Business Unit demand planning cycle and communicate the consensus demand plan after sign-off • Develop and maintain forecast models based on industry trends and demand patterns using SAP IBP and statistical, machine-learning, and AI-assisted techniques • Collaborate with, support, and constructively challenge sales organizations on forecast submissions • Identify and manage risks and opportunities associated with the demand plan, driving mitigation and gap-closing actions • Drive Demand Reviews with Sales VPs and Sales Directors • Liaise with sites to review forecast changes and assumptions • Provide the unconstrained consensus demand signal to Supply Planning on the agreed cadence • Own forecast dashboards and follow-up action plans within the monthly S&OP process • Manage short-term demand within the S&OE horizon • Drive adoption of common demand planning standards, planning calendars, consensus processes, and KPI definitions • Coach commercial stakeholders and Business Unit teams on forecast ownership and consensus processes • Contribute to demand planning tools, models, standards, and continuous improvement initiatives • Ensure product structure and finished-goods portfolio analysis and simplification • Own demand-side planning master data accuracy and completeness • Define data requirements and coordinate closure of data gaps with Planning Data Coordinator, BI, and IT partners • Develop and maintain demand visibility and forecast dashboards using trusted, governed data • Partner with Sales and HR on training and development plans for Customer Service and Planning teams • Contribute to planner onboarding, SAP IBP implementation, and adoption of common planning tools • Work with the Supply Planning CoE on shared planning outcomes, including DIFOT and inventory performance

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Engineering, or similar education • 5–8+ years of supply chain experience, preferably in an international B2B or FMCG matrix environment • Previous experience in forecasting and S&OP, leveraging analytics, marketing, and sales data • Experience partnering directly with commercial or sales organizations strongly preferred • Experience partnering and presenting to Director and VP level • Ability to interpret demand signals, challenge noise, and anticipate demand risks • Ability to run forecast cycles with discipline and manage exceptions within defined rules • Understanding of how forecast quality and segmentation affect safety stock, DIO, and obsolescence outcomes • Statistical forecasting and structured root-cause analysis of forecast misses • Comfort working across heterogeneous data landscapes • Strong analytical toolset skills, such as Power BI • SAP IBP or similar planning-tool experience preferred • Strong data analysis and critical-thinking ability • Strong communication, facilitation, and presentation skills • Ability to influence and coach without direct authority • Ability to work across cultures in a fast-paced, international, multi-site organization • Advanced knowledge of Excel • Good experience in statistical forecasting • Strong working knowledge of BI and analytical tools • Fluent English and ideally one additional European language, such as French, German, or Spanish

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible location within Europe • Permanent contract • Approximately 10–20% travel, primarily to Business Unit and commercial locations, with occasional site visits • Training and development plans • Coaching and professional development opportunities • Participation in planning system implementation and improvement initiatives