About this role
Role Overview
- Act as the bridge between the Commercial Planning team and IT, ensuring planning processes and systems support the business effectively
- Analyze end-to-end commercial planning processes to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement
- Investigate process and system issues by identifying root causes and implementing sustainable solutions
- Support and optimize planning activities across Demand Planning, Merchandise Planning, and Assortment Planning
- Work closely with stakeholders to improve planning tools (including Anaplan) and ensure systems enable efficient business processes
- Lead and support process improvement initiatives by introducing new ways of working and ensuring successful adoption across the business
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure process changes positively impact the entire commercial planning flow
- Contribute to strategic projects focused on enhancing merchandise planning, assortment planning, and demand forecasting capabilities
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain management or a related field
- 1–3 years of work experience in retail, purchasing, commercial or planning
- Affinity with planning tools and Excel, and process improvement
- Strong communicator in English
- both written and verbal
- able to bridge business and IT
- Structured and analytical approach to problem-solving
- Comfortable working across multiple concurrent projects with different stakeholders
- A motivational letter is highly desirable
- we would love to understand what drives you and why this role appeals to you
Benefits
- A market-based salary based on a 38-hour work week
- 24 days of holiday and the option to buy 5 extra days (based on 38 hours per week)
- A temporary contract with the intention of offering you a permanent contract in the long term
- Flexible working hours and the possibility of working up to 40% from home, of course in coordination with your team and manager
- 15% staff discount on your purchases at Action
- A good pension scheme, collective health insurance and travel expenses allowance or mobility allowance