Demand Planner (m/f/d)

At Arethia, we fuse our long-standing reputation with a continual push for progress. A rapidly expanding player in the flavour industry, Arethia specialises in delivering innovative taste solutions and co-creating products that consumers love. For more than 70 years, Arethia has been known for its close collaboration with customers and the highest quality standards. With over 350 employees spread across Germany, Switzerland, Dubai, and Indonesia, we aim to shape the future of flavours with a culture that values agility, transparency, and talent.

Demand Planner (m/f/d)
Full-time · Permanent employee · Hybrid, Reinbek

As Demand Planner, you will play a central role in shaping Arethia's operational excellence by creating a reliable and proactive demand planning process for raw materials and components. You will translate customer forecasts, sales insights, and historical raw material consumption into actionable demand plans. Sitting within the Procurement team, you will work closely with Sales, Planning, Production and Warehouse teams in Germany and Indonesia to align on forecasts, orchestrate scenario planning, and ensure smooth replenishment. This role offers the opportunity to build a planning function from the ground up, influence cross-functional ways of working, and contribute directly to our ability to scale efficiently in a fast-moving B2B environment.

• Forecast reliable demand by consolidating historical data, sales input, and market signals into one coherent and continuously improving demand plan.
• Align with Sales through structured forecast meetings to secure sign‑off, discuss risks and opportunities, and incorporate changing customer needs.
• Plan replenishment requirements for both high‑runner and volatile specific components, ensuring availability while balancing inventory and working capital targets.
• Challenge incoming forecasts by applying analytical and contextual judgement, identifying anomalies, and adjusting ordering quantities when required.
• Coordinate replenishment flows by determining order triggers, managing approval processes for large-volume purchases, and ensuring timely follow-up across stakeholders.
• Monitor forecast accuracy, in‑stock rates, and inventory levels, providing regular reporting and insights to support decision-making.
• Improve planning tools, templates, and SOPs to enhance transparency, discipline, and accountability across the forecasting process.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Operations Management, Procurement, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong analytical skills with proficiency in Excel and data-driven decision-making.
• Experience working with demand planning, inventory management, or supply chain processes.
• Business-level communication skills in English; additional languages are a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a B2B manufacturing, food & beverage, chemical, or related environment with complex multi-SKU portfolios.
• Familiarity with ERP or planning systems and the ability to build or improve forecasting templates.
• Strong stakeholder-management capability with the confidence to challenge assumptions constructively.
• Ability to interpret data quickly and spot inconsistencies or unrealistic forecasts.
• High level of organization and attention to detail, especially when balancing multiple inputs and priorities.
• Proactive, hands-on, and comfortable working in an environment where processes are still being developed

• Exciting tasks in an internationally operating, growing family business with flat hierarchies
• Flexible working hours and a hybrid working model
• 4 weeks remote work from other EU countries
• 30 days paid vacation per year
• Salary bands for a fair corporate culture
• Monthly allowance of €50 for your BAV
• Annual 360° feedback loops with clear promotion criteria and an individual career path
• Responsibility from day one in a company that encourages personal responsibility and growth
• Relocation costs can be reimbursed on a pro rata basis
• Regular company events such as summer party, Christmas party
• Paid team dinners or activities for each team twice a year
• Free parking right outside the door
• Perks and benefits: JobRad, subsidized lunch, subsidy for the Deutschlandticket, free language courses and discounted memberships at several gyms and for the Wellpass
• Fresh fruit, free drinks and snacks in the office

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