Lion is a global beverage company with a portfolio that includes many market-leading names in beer, wine, spirits, seltzer & non-alcoholic drinks. Our range includes classic brands like Tooheys, Speights, XXXX and Wither Hills, and craft beer brands like Little Creatures, James Squire and New Belgium’s Fat Tire.

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• Newly created role leading our Demand Planning team
  

• Key business partner to Sales & broader Lion
  

• Based in our new office in Fanshawe St & flexibly from home

We have an exciting new role to kick off 2022 for an experienced individual to join the team as Demand Leader on a permanent basis. This role reports to our Sales Strategy & Demand Director and is based in Auckland, balancing your week between our Fanshawe St office and working from home.

As our Demand Leader you will lead a team of Demand Planners to facilitate Sales in building robust longer term Demand plans and controlling the shorter term delivery of demand.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Leveraging your deep Demand expertise to ensure high quality demand plans are built & executed
  

• Drive best in class metrics for Demand forcasting accuracy & bias to support Integrated Business Planning (IBP) maturity progression
  

• Manage demand planning delivery ensuring alignment with IBP calendar, mitigation of risks to commercial performance and transparency & communication of demand planning results
  

• Drive demand forcasting capability growth in business partners
  

• Create, develop & lead a high performing team

The key skills & experience we’re looking for is:

• Deep expertise in Demand Planning within the FMCG industry
  

• Proficiency in Integrated Business Planning (IBP)
  

• Demonstrated experience & strength in building relationships, business partnering and influencing peers & stakeholders at all levels of the business
  

• A strong coach, who invests time in their people to develop & grow their teams capability

At Lion, we choose to be a leader in driving inclusion, diversity and gender parity. We have an ambitious goal to reach at least 40% representation of both men and women in all teams in all areas of the business.

Are you hesitating to apply because you don’t think you meet all of the criteria? If you believe you are aligned with our values at Lion, we’d encourage you to still click on that apply button so we can explore your unique skill set and the value you could add to one of our teams.