Business & Demand Planning Manager

Henkel

Henkel

Shanghai, China

Posted on Apr 25, 2026
About This Position

  • Lead business planning of retail/ professional business unit.
  • Facilitate S&OP cycle, closely co-working commercial teams and coordinate with supply chain to deliver business and function goals.

What you´ll do

  • Align total business target with commercial team, develop and maintain statistical forecast models for all business channels incorporating business intelligence and forecast information gathered from Sales, Marketing, Trade-marketing and Controlling with both top-down and bottom-up dimensions.
  • Maintain and co-ordinate rolling 6-12 months demand forecast with potential urgent demand and NPI/Promotion projects between business and supply planning.
  • Facilitate S&OP meeting and demand alignment meeting, to pre-align forecast based on the risks and opportunities input from business.
  • Review bias and slow moving to take actions, adjust the demand and statistical model improvement where it is necessary.
  • Co-coordinate cross functional research activities to reconcile significant/foreseeing variances and refine the forecast to reflect updated sales and marketing assumptions.
  • Facilitate NPI project landing in local.

What makes you a good fit

  • 5-8 years of working experience, better with experience in both business planning and demand planning.
  • FMCG background.
  • Potential, with strong leadership and good communication skills.
  • Good English skills.

Some perks of joining Henkel

  • Flexible work scheme with flexible hours, hybrid work model, and work from anywhere policy for up to 30 days per year
  • Diverse national and international growth opportunities
  • Global wellbeing standards with health and preventive care programs
  • Gender-neutral parental leave for a minimum of 8 weeks
  • Employee Share Plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares
  • Comprehensive Group Insurance Scheme
  • Annual Physical Examination
  • Flexible Benefits cover for dependents
  • Company Products Discount

At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us! We welcome all applications across different genders, origins, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, disabilities, and generations.