TomTom Sales Operations Forecast Manager - The Netherlands

TomTom, 600+ employees, offices in Amsterdam, London, Paris, Munich and Boston (MA), is one of Europe's fastest growing consumer electronics companies. TomTom (www.tomtom.com ) is a leader in personal navigation products, known for their usefulness, innovation, ease-of-use, state-of-the-art technology and quality excellence. TomTom’s products are available from leading retailers across Europe and from a variety of web shops. To facilitate our growth we are now seeking to recruit

Position
You will be responsible for the Sales Operations Forecast. You will develop and analyse with the Sales Director the sales forecast and shipments which includes the phase in and phase out of products.


As a Sales Operations Forecast Manager your role will be focused on Sales Forecasting and Shipment Planning:-

Sales Forecasting
- Work with Sales Director and/or business development managers to produce the 6-month rolling forecast.
- Stay informed on market trends, seasonality, stock in channel figures to help generate and calibrate the forecast.
- Perform weekly analysis of actuals vs forecast and highlight trends and variances by using and managing a database.
- Trigger warning signals for both planning and for sales to take appropriate actions to adjust supply.
- Integrate Phase In (New Product Introduction) – Phase Out (End of Life) products into the sales forecast.
- Ensure Launch requirements, dummies, demo’s etc are identified and forecasted
- Continually develop and improve forecasting systems, and reporting tools.


Shipments Planning
- Prepare monthly shipments plan in both units and value, based on open orders, requested dates, forecasts. Track variances and explain.
- Incorporate Revenue Recognition requirements in shipments planning, and at close of period identify shipments that do not qualify for reporting.
- Ensure shipments plan reflects a good balance of the customer’s and TomTom’s interests.
- Continually develop and improve shipment planning systems and reporting tools.
- Measure performance against plan

Candidate
- Do you have a University Degree or equivalent and a minimum of 3 years experience working as a Sales Operations Forecast Manager in a multinational organization, preferably from the FMCG technical sector?
- Do you have affinity with sales and a good understanding of the commercial
- Are you a strategic thinker with strong analytical and communication skills who has experience with change management?
- Do you have strong problem solving, decision making skills and affinity with Finance?
- Do you have good knowledge of ERP system such as SAP?
- Is your English at native level?


Relevant experience together with personality is crucial for this role. If you can answer YES to all the above questions, we would like to hear from you.


Please send us your English CV including all personal details, short motivation letter and an indication of your salary expectations (!) to jobs@tomtom.com .

Contact Information
Karen Wesdorp, Recruiter
TomTom
NL-NH-Amsterdam
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