Demand Planner Intern

Short Intro and About the Job

For our Supply Chain division in Milan we are looking for a new intern in our Demand Planning Team. During your experience you’ll be part of a young and dynamic team, you’ll get in touch with all company’s departments and you’ll contribute to the achievements of your team. Your Role: You’ll collaborate with several company’s departments to develop your analytical skills and to discover competitive dynamics of dairy & ambient products’ market. You’ll support the Customer Service team on day‑by‑day activities and projects. In details, you'll be accountable to:

• Preparing short and long‑term forecast based on historical data and input from top‑line team (sales, mktg, category).
• Managing forecast activities using IBP the tool (masterdata, promo event, phase‑in/phase‑out product).
• Analyzing the output of the tool in order to identify the most appropriate statistical forecasting algorithm.
• Assuring high level of forecast accuracy to balance between zero wastes and high customer service level.
• Interfacing with supply planning dept in order to anticipate issue/change in forecasting trend that can affect the service and waste performance.
• Preparing and animating all the reporting of the demand planning team, in order to support daily activities.
• Collaborating with financial dept in order to support the GPS process.
• Analyze data, look for insights, fuel the TopLine team with growth generating ideas.

About You

To be able to achieve the above and be successful in this role, we believe you need to have:

• Master’s degree in Economics or Management Engineering or similar.
• Problem‑solving and entrepreneurial thinking.
• Structured and analytical way of working.
• Relational skills and flexibility.
• SAP Knowledge will be a plus.
• Excel and Power Point knowledge.
• Fluent in English.

We offer

We believe in a “Phygital” workplace. Physical because our offices are centrally located and easily reached by public transportation. Free water, yogurt and fruits are of course benefits for our employees. Digital as we work for objectives, without time or space constraints, in a responsible, autonomous and flexible way that helps to reconcile life and work times, improving productivity and focusing on results.

Inclusive Diversity

Danone is committed to creating and living an inclusive & diverse environment, which will drive our growth as a business, as teams, as members of communities & as individuals. Valuing diversity is recognizing and respecting human differences and similarities. Our aim is to ensure that all employees and applicants are given equal opportunity and that our organization is representative of our consumers and society. We commit to fostering an inclusive working environment where we celebrate all types of diversity, both visible and invisible, which includes age, race, gender, nationality, disability, background, education, religion, beliefs, thinking style, perspectives and sexual orientation. We believe that our differences will make the difference.

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