Summer Intern- Demand Planner

About Nouryon
For nearly 400 years, we have built deep expertise, strong customer partnerships, and a trusted reputation for safety, sustainability, and reliability—serving customers and communities around the world. Our solutions play an essential role in everyday life.
Our approximately 8,200 employees worldwide help to provide essential solutions that our customers use to manufacture everyday products such as personal care, cleaning, paints and coatings, agriculture and food, pharmaceuticals, and building products. We forge and foster long-term customer partnerships and operate in more than 80 countries around the world.

Summer Internship Program Overview
At Nouryon, we’re passionate about empowering the next generation. Our global Summer Internship Program has been widely recognized for creating real impact, in 2024 and 2025, we proudly launched the China Summer Internship Program—earning enthusiastic feedback from students across the country.
Through this program, you’ll experience real work, build practical skills, explore your career interests, and grow alongside talented peers—all while discovering what makes Nouryon a great place to build your future. Our opportunity to connect with outstanding young talent for the future.

In your future role as “Summer Intern-Demand Planner” you will
- Demand Forecast:
- Analyze and manage the forecast and compare with historical sales history - Time period of relevance is 1 month to 24 month future horizon
- Fundamental work product is a 24 month forward look at the global demand at the material/Ship To Customers, aggregated as necessary
- Secondary work product is detailed, historical database of the 24 month forecasts for purposes of error analysis and corrective action
- Secondary work product is also a detailed demand history (actual) that can be aligned to forecast for comparison and context
- Monthly reporting of Demand Management scorecard.
- Stakeholder Management:
- Coordinate the execution of the demand plan with responsible sales teams and customer services teams, effectively managing any exceptions with supply capability
- Work collaboratively with the Sales Managers to ensure key assumptions on anticipated market movements and commercial strategy are reflected within the forecasts
- Actively communicate situation on slow moving products / discontinued products to the Sales Managers
- Forecast Segmentation and Statistical Forecast Models:
- Realize forecast segmentation to identify materials applicable to collaborative forecast and products that require market information. Re-evaluation at least annually to ensure correct forecast segment. Maintenance in both SAP and Arkieva.
- Determine the model that fits best to the business patterns. Puts the model concerned into Arkieva in order to give guidelines to sales managers and planners for their forecasting activities. Assures that new product/plant combinations are assigned the relevant statistical model.
- SAP master data:
- Maintenance of Arkieva master data (re-alignments) relevant for the forecast process.
- Power User Arkieva: (Select employees)
- Acts as a project leader or participant in demand management projects with a minor (financial) impact. Focus in these projects is on SAP and Arkieva changes. Scope includes the management of external expertise.
- Creates material for training of users of APO. Carries out training of relevant personnel to support continuous improvement (Planners, Sales Managers, and Customer Service etc.)
- Business Planning
- Supports preparation and facilitation of Regional Demand Management Reviews(DMR).
- Provide input to the Supply Management Review (SMR) in developing inventory strategies on existing items, new products, and product phase-outs
- Co-leads the weekly ITP to drive tactical implementation of the approved plans.
- Improvement Suggestions:
- Propose tools and structures for the improvement of the planning function and, after consultation the IBP Manager, implements these structures.
- Manage specific Supply Chain projects to meet budget requirements, project timelines, goals, business objectives etc.



We believe you bring

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in business, Mathematics, Engineering, Supply Chain, or related discipline
- Highly proficient in MS Office packages (Excel, Access; SharePoint)
- Very good English communication skills
- Excellent analytical skills
- Demonstrable capability to analyze data (including mass cross-reference data validation, trending and forecasting)
- Strong communication skills; able to communicate with all functional levels within the business
- Experience with SAP (or equivalent ERP system), Business Warehouse (or equivalent data warehouse) or Arkieva (or equivalent advanced planning software) is preferred
- Ability to prioritize and proactively complete projects with little direction
- Process driven attitude and results-orientated
- APICS CPIM or CSCP is preferred

Join us and help us build a sustainable future!


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