**Start something great today. Go Goodyear** **Location: Italy/Greece** **Primary Purpose of the Position**:
**Lead short-midterm business planning process**:
Drive a 50/50 balanced country demand forecast creation by providing fact-based sales assumptions and risks and opportunities, whilst constructively challenging received market & channel inputs. As the local ABP (Annual Business Plan) Process owner, provide the aggregated view of all moving elements and arguments for decision making at country and hub leadership level. **Drive plan sufficiency**:
Providing pro-active guidance to country and hub leadership on accomplishment of short & midterm aligned business plans through Risks & Opportunities management (on aggregated and disaggregated level) and strategical/tactical analytics (industry/sales/shares triangulations) on all required levels of the aligned plan (channel, brand, season, segment, rim & new designs/white spot coverage). Lead the Customer Level Planning process, ensuring that there is an aggregated view of the PBU MOR at Customer/Channel level supporting the ABP & AOP Processes. **Drive process and tools efficiency**:
Using Continuous Improvement mindset, challenge existing planning processes, recommend leaner solutions, improve and automate essential activities whilst remaining focused on cross-functional and process excellence. **Principle Duties & Responsibilities**:
**Assumption Based Planning (ABP)**: - Coordinate, challenge, consolidate and communicate all relevant market-back data to relevant stakeholders. Track, aggregate and communicate all the moving parts in the country FC for signoff in DSO/Sufficiency meetings, both assumptions in the plan, plus emerging risks & operations. Coordinate the disaggregation, communication and implementation of aligned outcomes accurately into the Market Level FC before PBU MOR deadline.
- Drive continuous improvement of our bottom-up planning process.



Follow up on target achievement of assumptions. **Sales Plan Sufficiency**: - Connect to other departments (e.g., if needed, Demand Planning, MRI, Supply Planning, Sales, Finance, Marketing, Pricing, Product Marketing) to optimize the local business plans, processes & tools to drive sales plan sufficiency.
- Install sufficiency operations and track sufficiency assumptions throughout the monthly planning cycles. Bring any Gap to Target to the attention of the relevant stakeholders and work cross-functionally on solutions. **Driving the country sales mix**:
Together with Product and Trade Marketing, drive the country mix (with dedicated focus on A-segment, Goodyear 19", Light Truck) and work closely with Sales Management to execute that plan using available tools (like assortment recommendation tool), with active follow-up on progress, tools usage, and further opportunities. **To join our team, you will need**:
**Education**:
Bachelor’s degree in business
- and/or economics-related sciences or comparable qualification. **Experience**: - 5 years business experience.
- Proven cross-functional experience with profound business experience in Sales, Demand Planning, Sales Operations, Supply Chain and/or MRI.
- Strong business acumen and in-depth understanding of the industry by market, channels and segments. **Knowledge and Skills**:
**Technical**
- Excellent skills in MS Office (especially Excel / VBA).
- Good skills in Data Warehouse Systems (EDW, SAP) preferred. **Managerial**
- Leadership direct/indirect for interaction with cross-functional teams (local, hub, region).
- High analytical competence and rational, cross-functional thinking.
- High self-organization and ability to cope with pressure. **Communication**
- Ability to communicate effectively and concisely.
- Ability to translate complex business data into key insights and actionable options. **Languages**
- English and Italian are required as mandatory.
- Greek would be appreciated.

📌 Specialist Business Planning Consumer Europe South (Assago)
🏢 Goodyear
📍 Assago