Senior Demand Planner

Job Title Senior Demand Planner

Job Description

This role is for a senior demand planning professional who wants to operate at corporate level and shape how demand planning works across Vanderlande’s three business domains. You will play a key role in building a mature, transparent and integrated demand planning capability that supports tactical planning and the transition toward Integrated Business Planning (IBP). 

  

The role 

As Senior Demand Planner, you own and strengthen demand planning across Airports, Distribution and Warehousing (TAL). This is a corporate capability role in which you define standards, governance and ways of working together with demand planners in the domains. 

You consolidate demand information from the three domains into one coherent corporate demand plan for the tactical planning horizon (6–18 months). You lead the demand review process, manage assumptions, risks and scenarios, and ensure demand is translated into clear inputs for resource, supply and financial planning. 

You are also a key contributor to Vanderlande’s Integrated Business Planning (IBP) transformation, ensuring demand planning is fully embedded in the end‑to‑end planning cycle. 

 

What you’ll do 

Own and continuously improve the cross-domain demand planning framework, including standards, KPIs, governance and roles 

Consolidate domain forecasts into one transparent and aligned corporate demand plan 

Define and maintain a baseline forecast based on project pipeline, firm demand and master data 

Lead the cross-domain Demand Review, creating a consensus unconstrained demand plan 

Identify and manage demand risks, opportunities and scenarios, including assumption-based planning 

Improve forecast accuracy through structured root-cause analysis and continuous improvement 

Act as linking pin between Sales / Customer Centers, Domain Planning, Supply Planning, Resource Planning and Finance 

Build demand planning capability through coaching, training and community-of-practice support 

Represent demand planning in the IBP design and rollout 

Partner with Anaplan, Power BI and ERP teams on data quality, analytics and planning transparency 

 

What you bring 

5–10+ years of experience in demand planning, S&OP or supply chain planning 

Experience in process design, capability building or planning transformation 

Proven ability to work across multiple business units or domains in a matrix organization 

Strong analytical and conceptual thinking, comfortable planning under uncertainty 

Excellent stakeholder management and facilitation skills 

Ability to challenge assumptions while maintaining strong partnerships 

Comfortable operating up to senior leadership and C‑level 

Experience with Anaplan, ERP/planning systems and Power BI is a strong plus 

About Vanderlande 

Vanderlande is headquartered in Veghel, with a global team and worldwide impact. We design and deliver automated logistics systems for airports and distribution (parcel) operations. We are part of Toyota Industries Corporation. Warehouse automation sits within TAL (Toyota Automated Logistics), a separate organization within the group. 

 

What we offer 

We offer a position in an international and professional working environment with room for personal development and growth. 

This position offers a competitive salary range of € 6.500 to € 7.600 gross per month (excluding 8% holiday allowance). 

On top of your fixed salary, you’ll receive the following secondary benefits: 

40 vacation days (20 statutory days and a flexible budget worth 20 days) 

Flexible working hours 

A hybrid workplace (40% working from home and 60% in the office) 

A Health & Wellbeing budget worth € 300 per calendar year 

Commuting allowance, including full reimbursement of public transport 

Working from home allowance 

Collective pension scheme and discount on additional health insurance 

On-site company health centres with gym, physiotherapists and occupational therapists 

Vanderlande Academy and training facilities 

A variety of Vanderlande network communities and initiatives 

 

Ready to apply? 

Are you interested in this position? Then apply directly via our Workday vacancy link with your resume and a short motivation. 

Questions? Contact Carlijn Kneepkens (Recruiter) at carlijn.kneepkens@vanderlande.com. 

 

Diversity statement 

Vanderlande is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.