Karo Healthcare, a dynamic and growing personal-care retail company, is all about making smart choices for everyday healthcare. With a wide-ranging portfolio across seven categories including medical products, we own and sell over 80 brands in about 90 countries. Our portfolio includes such brands as E45, Pevaryl, Lamisil, Nutravita, Decubal and many others. Our core belief in empowering people to make intelligent health decisions drives our growth strategy, blending organic expansion and M&A.
Join us at Karo Healthcare on our exciting journey. We're currently looking for a Demand and S&OP Planner for our office in Stockholm.
What’s in it for you?
- A high-impact role where your forecasting and planning expertise directly shapes product availability across global markets.
- Growth and development in a fast-paced, international, multi-market environment.
- Broad exposure—work cross-functionally with Supply Chain, Commercial, Finance, and external partners.
- A chance to influence ways of working, improve processes, and drive continuous development across markets and systems.
What you’ll be doing
- Act as the key point of contact for markets on all supply-, logistics- and demand-related questions.
- Manage demand planning across selected markets and product portfolios, ensuring accurate and reliable forecasts.
- Lead and facilitate monthly S&OP meetings, including reporting and stakeholder communication, ensuring commercial insights and sales trends are fully captured in demand plans.
- Align sales forecasts with budget expectations, supporting scenario discussions and decision-making.
- Drive process improvements across systems, demand planning workflows, master data and communication channels (internal and external).
- Build strong relationships with key stakeholders across the organisation.
- Support SKU lifecycle management, including Phase-In and Phase-Out planning.
- Develop and track demand-related KPIs such as forecast accuracy, proposing actions to improve results.
- Lead and support planning-related projects connected to KPIs, targets, and process optimisation.
- Ensure accurate master data and support the development of efficient methods to maintain high-quality information.
- Make demand-related decisions that directly impact Planning KPIs, including service levels, DOH, and forecast accuracy.
Requirements
- Experience in demand planning within a complex environment—ideally pharmaceutical or FMCG—covering multiple markets and sourcing sites.
- Previous experience leading S&OP meetings and working closely with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in Demand Planning, Supply Planning, or Logistics roles.
- Strong proficiency with common planning and analytics tools (e.g., IFS, SAP, SO99+, Power BI, Microsoft Office).
- Flexible, adaptable, action-oriented and proactive mindset.
- Strong analytical skills: able to structure data, extract insights and communicate clearly to stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently and drive continuous improvement across systems and processes.
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
- Fluency in spoken and written English.
- Demonstrated alignment with Karo Values.
Benefits
- Opportunity to create, grow, and encourage
- Apart from a competitive salary pack, there are lots of growth opportunities to meet your personal ambitions
- Flexible schedule and life work balance
- Responsibility for exciting and challenging projects that have a direct, visible impact on our customers and the industry
- Very positive work environment in a young, international, and motivated team
- Start-up spirit while being a part of the large international organization with strong values
Karo Healthcare has a Diverse & Inclusive environment. We are looking for qualified candidates irrespective of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, religion, national origin, disability or age.
