Royal Canin
European Planning Manager F/H/X
Aimargues, France
Behind every bag of our product is a team of skilled engineers and manufacturing experts dedicated to ensuring the highest quality and safety standards. Whether you're optimizing production lines, designing innovative solutions, or maintaining cutting-edge technology, your work will directly contribute to improving the lives of pets around the world. Make your mark on a team where innovation, precision, and passion come together every day.
- Job Type: varies
- Level: mid-level
- Travel: varies
- Average Salary: $63K-$96K
Success Profile
What makes a successful European Planning Manager F/H/X at Royal Canin? We look for the right mix of the following traits when speaking with you.
- Analytical
- Curious
- Efficient
- Responsible
- Results-driven
- Team player
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Purpose
Connect your passion for pets to the purpose: A Better World For Pets
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Health & Wellbeing
A comprehensive focus on your individual health & wellbeing
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Inclusion
A place where you can belong and be yourself
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Career development
Professional learning offerings, annual personal development plans, Mars University
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Attractive total rewards
Your financial wellbeing through a competitve salary and bonus plan
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Focus on sustainability
We invest in you so you can make a better world
I take immense pride in leading a team that is passionate about making a difference for pets. Every day, we focus on precision, innovation, and maintaining the highest quality standards. What truly sets Royal Canin apart is the commitment to development—whether it’s advancing our processes, adopting cutting-edge technology, or helping associates grow in their careers. It’s incredibly rewarding to know that our work not only drives success but also creates meaningful opportunities for everyone on the team.
JR Smith North Sioux City Site Director, Global Value Chain Operations
Segment : Royal Canin
Contrat : CDI
Localisation : Aimargues, proche de Montpellier et Nîmes
The European Planning Manager is responsible for leading the forecasting process for Royal Canin products.
He/she is the expert on forecasting at strategic and operational level and regularly consulted for insights related to market growth activities. He/she is key enabler to support product availability, customer service excellence, mid/long term planning steering and process improvements.
Core activities include supply planning accuracy, scenario building based on market and regional insights, predictive analysis, product deployment support, cross functional projects implementation, continuous process and system improvement.
He/She works in a team of regional planners in constant connection with Sales, Marketing, Finance, R&D and Supply Chain departments.
What are we looking for ?
Master Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration or similar.
Fluency in English is required, French is a plus
5 years of experience in Planning function.
Expert in forecasting and in improving business processes.
Experience with Futurmaster or Advanced Planning system a plus
Strong passion for continuously improving forecast results while engaging the organization on demand insights.
What would be your key responsibilities ?
1. Supply Planning & Forecasting
Lead the management of supply planning process for a set of defined markets which includes the integration of historical sales trends, researching demand drivers (competitive responses, trend, substitution effects), development of Statistical forecast models to develop a rolling 24-month forecast.
Interface with Sales, Marketing, R&D and Supply teams to reflect latest market and regional insights/assumptions into the EU planning system.
Lead periodical Supply Management Review with Markets to ensure clear communication regarding forecast, forecast variances and ensure supply feasibility of unconstraint requirements.
Custodian of the regional planning process. Must secure on-time demand plan submission to supply chain, commercial, operation and procurement team.
Animate community of local supply planners to ensure coordination of activities
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2. Product Deployment
Support Regional product deployment by contributing to pre-launch deployment activities (definition of Road-To-Market, Language on packs, sourcing site, logistic information preparation…)
Ensure perfect execution of decision made related to product change management in coordination with Regulatory, Marketing, Sales, Commercial or Supply function.
3. Continuous Improvement
Define corrective actions associated to Forecast Accuracy gap vs regional target
Lead process improvement initiatives including best practices sharing with markets
Support operating procedures documentation and standardization
Support Root Causes Failure Analysis
4. System Maintenance, improvement and transformation
Support FuturMaster versioning upgrade
Contribute to the maintenance of Product Life cycle & Bill of Supply in FuturMaster
What can we expect from Mars ?
You will work in a multicultural environment (more than 40 nationalities) and where your dog will be welcomed by more than 100 other Associates’ dogs at the office!
You will work in a unique campus, which gathers more than 800 Associates working for: the international HQ, the French subsidiary, two laboratories, a kennel and a cattery with more than 200 cats & dogs, and finally the most important factory of the Royal Canin group
A unique and ideal work environment to become the leader in health through nutrition for cats and dogs!
You will evolve in the heart of an innovative production plant that will challenge you, on a daily basis
Royal Canin's CSR commitments, to build a better world for tomorrow:
Since 2015, no waste to landfill is made by the 16 Royal Canin factories in the world
All Royal Canin products manufactured in Europe are ISO 14001 certified from design to factory gate
Since 2017, Royal Canin has supported the K-DOG program of the Curie Institute, which trains dogs to detect breast cancer via olfaction.