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We are looking for brave summitteers who don´t want to stay put. Leave your footprint at Jack Wolfskin.
We Live to Discover
Jack Wolfskin lives to discover and encourages people to go on new outdoor adventures, connecting with nature and rewilding themselves. Through sustainable German engineered apparel, footwear and equipment that protects and inspires, we enable everyone to experience more moments of outdoor discovery. Our success is based on a shared wanderlust and the collective input from our team of free spirits, forward thinkers and discoverers. Sharing the same values, we focus on having a positive impact through product innovations, more sustainable solutions and business practices as well as advocacy programs.
We encourage an open forum of ideas throughout all departments and honor collaborative discoverers who lead by introducing new paths. A career with Jack Wolfskin is anything but ordinary.
Jack Wolfskin lives to discover and encourages people to go on new outdoor adventures, connecting with nature and rewilding themselves. Through sustainable German engineered apparel, footwear and equipment that protects and inspires, we enable everyone to experience more moments of outdoor discovery. Our success is based on a shared wanderlust and the collective input from our team of free spirits, forward thinkers and discoverers. Sharing the same values, we focus on having a positive impact through product innovations, more sustainable solutions and business practices as well as advocacy programs.
We encourage an open forum of ideas throughout all departments and honor collaborative discoverers who lead by introducing new paths. A career with Jack Wolfskin is anything but ordinary.
We Live to Discover
Jack Wolfskin lives to discover and encourages people to go on new outdoor adventures, connecting with nature and rewilding themselves. Through sustainable German engineered apparel, footwear and equipment that protects and inspires, we enable everyone to experience more moments of outdoor discovery. Our success is based on a shared wanderlust and the collective input from our team of free spirits, forward thinkers and discoverers. Sharing the same values, we focus on having a positive impact through product innovations, more sustainable solutions and business practices as well as advocacy programs.
We encourage an open forum of ideas throughout all departments and honor collaborative discoverers who lead by introducing new paths. A career with Jack Wolfskin is anything but ordinary.
Jack Wolfskin lives to discover and encourages people to go on new outdoor adventures, connecting with nature and rewilding themselves. Through sustainable German engineered apparel, footwear and equipment that protects and inspires, we enable everyone to experience more moments of outdoor discovery. Our success is based on a shared wanderlust and the collective input from our team of free spirits, forward thinkers and discoverers. Sharing the same values, we focus on having a positive impact through product innovations, more sustainable solutions and business practices as well as advocacy programs.
We encourage an open forum of ideas throughout all departments and honor collaborative discoverers who lead by introducing new paths. A career with Jack Wolfskin is anything but ordinary.
Join us at our headquarters in Idstein as Demand & Supply Planning Operations (m/f/x).
The story begins
- Responsibility for supply planning and fulfilment based on demand planning for Jack Wolfskin worldwide and balancing stock and incoming deliveries.
- Responsible for the demand planning and fulfilment process for a specific region, e.g. DACH, EU, North America, or APAC.
- Responsibility for translating the revenue plan into the demand plan in cooperation with the finance department.
- Responsibility for general demand and supply topics related to purchasing analyses and SAP processes.
- Responsibility for defining and implementing strategies to improve key business metrics, including forecast accuracy and forecast errors impacting customer service and inventory.
- Coordinate delivery operations between HQ and regions to ensure maximum efficiency in meeting demand, delivery fulfilment, and maximum transparency.
- Manage the monthly regional S&OP process from HQ as the interface to the S&OP team. Support the implementation and optimisation of the process in terms of demand planning, supply planning, supply fulfilment, and reporting.
- Preparation and handover of the purchasing plan, including the required delivery, to the purchasing management/P2P team.
- Work with sales to monitor supply and demand trends and required delivery.
- Analyse monthly sales planning and ensure that requirements are as accurate as possible.
- Participate in supply chain business planning processes, determine safety stock levels, manage inventory tracking and reconciliation processes (i.e. actuals vs. plan), and identify/implement opportunities for inventory reduction.
- Work with marketing/sales groups to make customer allocation decisions by analysing historical demand, available supply, and customer prioritisation.
- Create and monitor KPIs and dashboards to provide visibility into operations across the business.
- Create and manage supply vs. demand reports. Ensure cross-functional actions are taken to achieve better execution performance and desirable inventory levels.
- Achieve optimal levels of excellence.
- Responsibility for supply planning and fulfilment based on demand planning for Jack Wolfskin worldwide and balancing stock and incoming deliveries.
- Responsible for the demand planning and fulfilment process for a specific region, e.g. DACH, EU, North America, or APAC.
- Responsibility for translating the revenue plan into the demand plan in cooperation with the finance department.
- Responsibility for general demand and supply topics related to purchasing analyses and SAP processes.
- Responsibility for defining and implementing strategies to improve key business metrics, including forecast accuracy and forecast errors impacting customer service and inventory.
Your proven path
- Degree in business administration, supply chain management, or comparable.
- At least 5 years of professional experience in demand planning, procurement planning, merchandise planning, or sales planning and analysis.
- Strong management and communication skills.
- Results-oriented, with the ability and desire to effectively lead and manage a project from start to finish, both in time and with desired results.
- Strong understanding of financial instruments, practices, and principles.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Knowledge of the supply chain.
- SAP experience, ideally S4/Hana.
- Experience with MRP systems and consumption forecasting.
- Expertise in BI solutions (BW and Power BI).
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office products.
- Experience in the textile industry in a comparable position.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
- Structured, planning, and methodical approach to work in order to achieve the set quality requirements and company goals.
- Enjoy developing and analysing data to solve new and unfamiliar problems.
- Enthusiasm for cross-functional daily interactions in a multicultural work environment.
- Independent and structured approach to work with a strong focus on results and a "hands-on" mentality.
- Ability to work with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Proven ability to identify problems, recommend appropriate solutions, and follow up to ensure positive outcomes.
- Project management skills.
- Strong communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills are required.
- High level of initiative and ability to work independently with a strong sense of urgency, confidence, and ability to deal with new and rapidly changing situations and environments.
We are an outdoor gear company and we act like it
- Exciting product world and international environment in a responsible and sustainable company
- Flexible and hybrid working
- Attractive employee discounts und additional company benefits
- Free water, coffee and tea specialties
- Informal culture and casual dress code
- Bike leasing, monthly subsidy for up to two leasing contracts
- EGYM, company fitness with access to over 7000 studios
- Team events and sports activities in nature and in our own gym
- Likeminded, our partner for mental health with many training opportunities
- Mobile working from abroad, up to 4 weeks
Want to join us?
Join us and apply online at our career portal, stating your desired salary and earliest start date.
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We, at Jack Wolfskin, are offering you an exciting job opportunity in a continuously developing working environment with flat hierarchies, short decision-making paths and swift implementation.
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recruiting@jack-wolfskin.com Please note:
We can only answer questions here and do not accept applications sent to this email address. Please submit applications online via our career portal. Email applications will not processed.
We can only answer questions here and do not accept applications sent to this email address. Please submit applications online via our career portal. Email applications will not processed.
Please note: We can only answer questions here and do not accept applications sent to this email address. Please submit applications online via our career portal. Email applications will not processed.
