Demand Forecast Manager Türkiye & Unica  - B&W​ 

Unilever is currently hiring for Demand Fullfillment Manager Türkiye & Unica - B&W!

Function: Customer Operations
Reports to: B&W Integrated Planning Director - PTAB
Scope: Turkey & Unica
Location: Umraniye
Terms & Conditions: Full Time

ABOUT UNILEVER
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At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

JOB PURPOSE
As the Demand Fulfillment Manager for the Beauty & Wellbeing category, you will lead the demand planning agenda, sitting at the core of the S&OP process. You will partner closely with Customer Development, Marketing, Sourcing Units, and Supply Chain teams to deliver an integrated volume and sales plan. You will own the short , mid and long term sales forecast, proactively manage demand–supply risks, and secure sustainable business performance.

Key Responsibilities
Demand & Supply Planning

• Drive harmonized, leading edge demand planning processes and tools to deliver service, inventory, waste, and forecast accuracy targets.
• Build strong cross functional partnerships to enable effective S&OP and business decision making.
• Generate practical, sustainable solutions to operational challenges and support business growth.
• Lead interventions for supply disruptions, ensuring adequate safety stocks.
• Manage inventory to maximize service and minimize waste and residual stock.
• Support Innovation & Renovation through robust planning and simplification.
• Advance future fit capabilities including no touch planning and improved data inputs.

Category & Business Planning

• Develop and execute the category planning framework, including run strategy.
• Own B&W planning KPIs (service, inventory, cost, obsoletes, DBNR) and improvement programs.
• Lead scenario planning, and crisis management.
• Manage allocations for Business Plans and operational overflows.
• Oversee end to end Planning Operations for the B&W category in TU.

Capacity Planning

• Drive governance around monthly/ quarterly RCCP cycles, supporting key decisions on risks, stock builds, and overflows.
• Ensure strong customer service, responsiveness, and volume deployment across the network.
• Apply consistent planning frameworks with SUs to drive capability and perfect execution.

Transformation & Leadership

• Drive planning transformation initiatives across technology and process improvement.
• Build an inclusive, high performing team culture.
• Develop capabilities and hold teams accountable to high standards.

Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, or equivalent.
• 8+ years of experience in supply chain planning or related roles.
• Experience of managing teams in a hybrid/remote environment.
• Strong understanding of core supply chain planning concepts.
• Proven leadership and project management skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced, evolving environment.
• Strong strategic thinking, problem solving, and influencing skills.
• Local market experience is essential.

Skills

• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration.
• Change leadership and solution driven mindset.
• Business acumen with solid planning experience.
• Digital fluency and data driven decision making.
• Agile approach to problem solving.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in Turkish and English.

Leadership Expectations
You are an inclusive leader who motivates teams with purpose and passion. You balance challenge and support, foster collaboration, and build an environment where people learn, grow, and deliver strong results. You understand broad business dynamics and inspire your team to contribute to long term success.

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

• PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others.
• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.
• TALENT CATALYST: Invests in people – coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best.
• PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
• CONSUMER LOVE: Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
• BUSINESS ACUMEN: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. 

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.