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We are seeking a Corporate Demand Manager to join one of our clients in the pharmaceutical sector. The position is based in Barcelona and offers a hybrid work model.

Your mission:

Reporting to the Corporate Head of Supply Chain, the Corporate Demand Manager is a strategic leader responsible for overseeing the end-to-end demand planning process across all regions and product portfolios within the organization.

This role ensures the creation of accurate, data-driven demand forecasts that inform supply, commercial, and financial planning at the global level. He partners closely with local demand planning teams to harmonize processes, align forecasts, and drive best practices, while maintaining visibility over and inventory management

Your major accountabilities:

• Lead the global demand planning process, consolidating forecasts from regional and local teams to create a unified corporate demand outlook.
• Analyze historical sales, market intelligence and promotional activities to generate robust, actionable demand forecasts, and identify risks and opportunities.
• Drive and facilitate the Global Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process, ensuring alignment between global demand, supply, and financial objectives.
• Identify and communicate demand risks and opportunities to senior leadership, enabling proactive decision-making.
• Develop, track and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) such as forecast accuracy, bias, and demand variability at the global and local levels and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Participate in new product introduction (NPI) projects to integrate launches and lifecycle events into demand plans.
• Lead the adoption and optimization of demand planning tools and digital solutions, ensuring data accuracy and integrity as well as process efficiency across all regions.

We would like to have:

• Minimun 5 years of experience in demand planning in a global or regional role, preferably in the pharma industry.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional and cross-regional teams in a matrix organization.
• Advanced analytical skills and proficiency with demand planning systems.
• Deep expertise in S&OP/IBP, demand forecasting, and digital transformation.
• Demonstrated ability to drive change, lead complex projects, and deliver in a highly matrixed environment.
• Fluent in English; additional languages are highly valued.
• Excellent leadership, communication, analytical Thinking, problem solving, change management and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Good understanding of End-to-end SC processes (Demand, DRP & SP, Logistics, SC business analytics).
• Strong knowledge in SAP Supply Chain Management.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of initiative.
• Good knowledge in MS Office Suite, Power BI, basic programming skills in Python, VBA for Excel or similar preferred.
• Availability to travel: 5%.