Sales & Operations Planning Expert

ABOUT THE ROLE

The S&OP Analyst plays a key role in transforming data into business decisions across Wella. By providing reliable, fact-based insights, this position supports senior leadership in understanding business performance, identifying risks and opportunities, improving forecast quality, and driving alignment across functions.

The role contributes to the monthly Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process, Annual Operating Plan (AOP), Planning Forecast (PF) cycles, and strategic business initiatives. You will work across brands, markets, and functions, supporting decision-making that impacts the company's performance globally.

This position is part of the Global Demand Planning Team, reports to the Demand Planning & S&OP Director, and does not include direct people management responsibilities.

This role is ideal for candidates with experience in Demand Planning, Supply Chain Planning, Commercial Analytics, Revenue Growth Management, Finance Analytics, or Business Performance Management, who enjoy turning complex data into actionable business insights.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

S&OP and Leadership Analytics

• Support monthly S&OP reviews and leadership forums with clear, actionable analyses and recommendations.
• Identify performance drivers, gaps versus plan, emerging risks, opportunities, and required actions.

Business Planning Support

• Prepare, consolidate, validate, and analyze data for AOP, Planning Forecast, and other business planning cycles.
• Ensure planning outputs are accurate, timely, and aligned across functions.

Forecast and Scenario Analysis

• Evaluate forecast assumptions, demand drivers, forecast accuracy, and forecast bias.
• Investigate significant deviations and develop scenario-based analyses to support decision-making.

Enterprise Performance Analysis

• Analyze business performance across brands, markets, channels, and geographic regions.
• Provide an integrated view of volume, value, profitability, and operational performance.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Sales, Finance, and Initiative Planning teams to align assumptions, reconcile inputs, and establish a consistent fact base.
• Support business discussions with objective data and recommendations.

Executive Reporting and Communication

• Translate complex datasets into concise executive-level insights, presentations, dashboards, and visualizations.
• Clearly communicate what changed, why it matters, and what actions should be considered.

Data Governance and Quality

• Validate source data, calculations, master data assumptions, KPI definitions, and reporting outputs.
• Identify and resolve inconsistencies before information is used for decision-making.

Productivity and Continuous Improvement

• Leverage Microsoft Copilot and approved AI tools to improve analytical productivity and automate repetitive activities.
• Drive reporting simplification, standardization, and process improvements.

WHAT WE WANT YOU TO BRING ALONG

Experience & Business Understanding

• Experience in Demand Planning, Supply Chain, Finance Analytics, Business Planning, S&OP, or a related analytical role.
• Understanding of forecasting, planning, business performance management, and scenario evaluation.
• Experience working in a multinational or matrix organization is preferred.

Analytical Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with advanced Excel skills.
• Experience with one or more planning and analytics platforms such as SAP, Blue Yonder, Power BI, Anaplan, MFR, or similar tools.
• Ability to work with large datasets and transform them into meaningful business insights.

Business Acumen

• Strong commercial and financial understanding, with the ability to connect data-driven insights to revenue, service, inventory, and overall business performance.
• Ability to understand the broader business impact of analytical findings.

Communication & Collaboration

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to present analytical findings clearly and confidently to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfortable challenging assumptions constructively and influencing decisions through data.

Ways of Working

• High attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, work under tight deadlines, and navigate ambiguity.
• Curiosity, ownership mindset, continuous-learning attitude, and enthusiasm for AI-enabled ways of working.

WHAT WE OFFER

We care about growth, health, and wellbeing of our employees; therefore, our offer includes:

• Luxmed medical insurance: Employee basic package is covered by Wella, you can upgrade the package or extend it to your spouse or partner and kids
• Life insurance: basic option is paid by Wella, you can upgrade the package for you and your family
• Lunch card
• Multisport card
• Parking subsidy or public transportation refund – depending on your commuting style
• One additional day off to celebrate each full year of employment (capped at five days)
• Birthday as a holiday: celebrate with your loved ones!
• End-of-the-year gift, spring celebrations
• Bonus for life-time occasions (e.g., giving birth to a child, marriage)
• Attractive referral bonus for recommending talents to work at Wella
• State-of-the-art workspace, collaborative areas, cool events, and gatherings
• Occasional samples of our products to enjoy
• Access to discounts on our products in Wella and ghd online shops

WHO WE ARE

Together, WE enable individuals to look, feel, and be their true selves.

Wella Company is one of the world’s leading beauty companies, comprised of a family of iconic brands such as Wella Professionals, Clairol, OPI, Nioxin and ghd. With 6,000 employees globally, presence in over 100 countries, Wella Company and its brands enable consumers to look, feel, and be their true selves. As innovators in the hair and nail industry, Wella Company empowers its people to delight consumers, inspire beauty professionals, engage communities, and deliver sustainable growth to its stakeholders.

For additional information about the Wella Company, please visit www.wellacompany.com and https://www.wellacompany.com/about-us.

EEO OPPORTUNITIES

We offer equal employment opportunity to qualified individuals without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Wella Company with federal and state disability laws makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us at: https://www.wellacompany.com/consumer-affairs

We strongly believe that cultivating a diverse workplace gives a company strength. The combination of unique skills, abilities, experiences and backgrounds creates an environment that produces extraordinary results.

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