Senior Demand Planner
Location: Eindhoven, Netherlands or Cambridge, United Kingdom (Hybrid working model).
Closing Date: Thursday 7th May 2026.
As Senior Demand Planner within EMEALA, you will lead regional demand planning and forecasting activities to support internal and external customers across a diverse product portfolio. The role serves as the integration point between Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Supply Chain, ensuring a consensus‑driven demand signal that enables effective decision‑making.
You will be accountable for translating data, market intelligence, and business assumptions into a robust demand picture that supports Sales and Operations Planning and drives operational excellence. Working collaboratively, you will bring stakeholders together to deliver outcomes that help make our customers heroes.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop operational and revenue demand forecasts at multiple levels of aggregation across the EMEALA region and multiple planning horizons.
- Create, maintain, and continuously improve forecast models using SAP Demand Planning and other demand management tools.
- Analyze historical sales trends, research demand drivers, and interpret statistical baseline forecasts, enriching them with market and customer intelligence.
- Coordinate cross‑functional analysis to investigate significant variances and update forecasts based on sales, marketing, and financial assumptions.
- Collaborate closely with Sales, Marketing, and Customer Finance to understand and align on key demand drivers and risks.
- Partner with Supply Chain and New Product Development teams to highlight growth opportunities, capacity constraints, and product lifecycle impacts.
- Lead the regional consensus demand planning process, facilitating stakeholder meetings to finalize forecasts with transparency and shared ownership.
- Support supply planning by providing clear demand inputs, inventory strategy recommendations, and insights on new product introductions and phase‑outs.
- Communicate customer action plans and demand changes clearly and proactively to supply planning partners.
- Design, develop, and maintain demand planning databases, reports, and performance metrics to track forecast accuracy and S&OP effectiveness.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen demand planning capability, governance, and cross‑functional collaboration.
Qualifications
You are an experienced demand planning professional with a proven track record of managing complex forecasts across multiple product lines and time horizons. You possess solid knowledge of demand planning systems and methodologies, ideally within life sciences, medical devices, or high‑tech environments, and are comfortable working with SAP or similar tools. You thrive in cross‑functional settings, confidently facilitate demand reviews and consensus meetings while balancing commercial ambition with supply realities. With strong analytical capability, attention to detail, and clear communication skills, you take accountability for results, challenge assumptions constructively, and continually seek ways to improve forecasting accuracy and planning effectiveness.
Benefits
Flexible time off, private medical insurance, compassion and care time off, leisure travel insurance, pension, employee stock purchasing program, volunteer time off, and more.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Illumina is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, citizenship status, and genetic information. Illumina conducts background checks on applicants for whom a conditional offer of employment has been made. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable local, state, and federal laws. Background check results may potentially result in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. The background check process and any decisions made as a result shall be made in accordance with all applicable local, state, and federal laws. Illumina prohibits the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the application and interview process. If you require accommodation to complete the application or interview process, please contact accommodations@illumina.com.
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Location: Eindhoven, Netherlands or Cambridge, United Kingdom (Hybrid working model).
Closing Date: Thursday 7th May 2026.
As Senior Demand Planner within EMEALA, you will lead regional demand planning and forecasting activities to support internal and external customers across a diverse product portfolio. The role serves as the integration point between Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Supply Chain, ensuring a consensus‑driven demand signal that enables effective decision‑making.
You will be accountable for translating data, market intelligence, and business assumptions into a robust demand picture that supports Sales and Operations Planning and drives operational excellence. Working collaboratively, you will bring stakeholders together to deliver outcomes that help make our customers heroes.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop operational and revenue demand forecasts at multiple levels of aggregation across the EMEALA region and multiple planning horizons.
- Create, maintain, and continuously improve forecast models using SAP Demand Planning and other demand management tools.
- Analyze historical sales trends, research demand drivers, and interpret statistical baseline forecasts, enriching them with market and customer intelligence.
- Coordinate cross‑functional analysis to investigate significant variances and update forecasts based on sales, marketing, and financial assumptions.
- Collaborate closely with Sales, Marketing, and Customer Finance to understand and align on key demand drivers and risks.
- Partner with Supply Chain and New Product Development teams to highlight growth opportunities, capacity constraints, and product lifecycle impacts.
- Lead the regional consensus demand planning process, facilitating stakeholder meetings to finalize forecasts with transparency and shared ownership.
- Support supply planning by providing clear demand inputs, inventory strategy recommendations, and insights on new product introductions and phase‑outs.
- Communicate customer action plans and demand changes clearly and proactively to supply planning partners.
- Design, develop, and maintain demand planning databases, reports, and performance metrics to track forecast accuracy and S&OP effectiveness.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen demand planning capability, governance, and cross‑functional collaboration.
Qualifications
You are an experienced demand planning professional with a proven track record of managing complex forecasts across multiple product lines and time horizons. You possess solid knowledge of demand planning systems and methodologies, ideally within life sciences, medical devices, or high‑tech environments, and are comfortable working with SAP or similar tools. You thrive in cross‑functional settings, confidently facilitate demand reviews and consensus meetings while balancing commercial ambition with supply realities. With strong analytical capability, attention to detail, and clear communication skills, you take accountability for results, challenge assumptions constructively, and continually seek ways to improve forecasting accuracy and planning effectiveness.
Benefits
Flexible time off, private medical insurance, compassion and care time off, leisure travel insurance, pension, employee stock purchasing program, volunteer time off, and more.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Illumina is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, citizenship status, and genetic information. Illumina conducts background checks on applicants for whom a conditional offer of employment has been made. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable local, state, and federal laws. Background check results may potentially result in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. The background check process and any decisions made as a result shall be made in accordance with all applicable local, state, and federal laws. Illumina prohibits the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the application and interview process. If you require accommodation to complete the application or interview process, please contact accommodations@illumina.com.
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