New Product Delivery Planner (NPD Planner) – Fixed-Term Contract Lifestyle Brands (the LSB) is a growing house of like-minded brands under the SC Johnson umbrella including Method®, Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day®, Babyganics® and Ecover®. Headquartered in San Francisco with additional operations in Chicago and throughout Europe, the LSB is home to 650 employees. Together we act as a force for bold, transformative growth with a focus on delivering positive impact for people and the planet. If you're into pioneering the future and doing good while doing business, come join us. The LSB is part of SC Johnson, a family-owned company and leading manufacturer of household cleaning, home storage, air care, pest control and shoe care products, as well as professional products. Originally founded in 1886 and headquartered in Wisconsin, U.S.A., SC Johnson and the Lifestyle Brands division are at work for a better world.
Location: Malle, Belgium
Function: Supply Planning
Contract type:
Fixed-Term Contract until June 2028 Internal title: Senior Analyst, Supply Planning
Manager: Materials Manager
For internal employees: This role is not eligible for relocation. If you are not based in Belgium, occasional travel to Belgium will be required. Open to internal assignments.
What's in it for you?- Competitive pay & benefits
- Outstanding commuting allowance when you come by bike
- Flexible working hours
- Fresh fruit
- Thursday = cookie day20 holidays + 12 ADV days
- Hospitalization insurance and group insurance
- Volunteering days
- Free cleaning products to make your house SHINE!
Overview:
At Lifestyle Brands, we're not just launching products. We're bringing bold ideas to life. We're looking for a New Product Delivery Planner to help turn innovation into reality. In this role, you'll sit at the heart of our launch process, partnering with project managers, innovation leads, engineers, procurement teams and planners to ensure our newest products arrive on time, in full, and ready to delight consumers. If you thrive on bringing order to complexity, enjoy connecting people and processes, and love seeing great ideas make it to market, we'd love to hear from you!
About the Role:
As our NPD Planner, you'll be the planning voice within cross-functional innovation projects. You'll ensure launch plans are achievable, risks are identified early, and transitions between old and new materials are managed smoothly. This is a high-impact role where you'll combine strategic thinking, detailed project coordination and stakeholder management to help deliver successful product launches across our Lifestyle Brands portfolio.
About the Team:- You'll join our Supply Planning team, working alongside passionate colleagues who are committed to bringing sustainable innovation to life. Together, you'll help support iconic Lifestyle Brands including Ecover, Method, Mrs. Meyer's and Babyganics as part of the SC Johnson family.
- We believe that business can be a force for good. We're curious, collaborative, creative, and unafraid to challenge convention when it helps us build a cleaner, greener, more colourful world.
- What will you be doing?
- Own the planning execution of New Product Development (NPD) projects to ensure delivery against agreed launch timelines and First Arrival Dates.
- Partner with project teams to build realistic and achievable launch plans.
- Represent Supply Planning across project meetings and ensure planning perspectives are included in key decisions.
- Monitor phase-in and phase-out activities, minimising obsolete inventory and scrap risk.
- Maintain and continuously improve project tracking tools and planning visibility.
- Proactively identify risks, gaps or timeline conflicts and escalate where needed.
- Validate project scope and planning assumptions with innovation teams.
- Collaborate closely with Procurement on MOQ planning and supplier-related requirements.
- Coordinate testing activities and ensure materials, capacity and production readiness are aligned.
- Monitor demand uploads and launch volume accuracy, highlighting any inconsistencies.
- Support advanced procurement approvals by providing planning inputs and risk assessments.
- Ensure product end-of-life processes are correctly reflected within planning systems.
- Validate Bill of Materials (BOM) accuracy prior to launch.
- Experience you'll bring:
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Economics, Operations, or a related discipline.
- Experience in Supply Planning, Project Management, PMO, New Product Development, or a related field.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel.
- Experience working with ERP systems, ideally SAP.Understanding of manufacturing, logistics or production planning environments.
- Fluent English, both written and spoken.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
- Behaviors you'll need:
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong planning, organisation and prioritisation abilities.
- Analytical mindset with confidence working with data and identifying trends.
- Proactive problem-solving approach with a focus on practical solutions.
- Resilience and the ability to perform effectively in a dynamic environment.
- Collaborative team player who enjoys working across functions and geographies.
About us:
We are the people behind method + ecover. We've always done things differently – we're fearless thinkers, mad scientists and adventurous designers who believe that making soap leads to brave ideas, bold inventions and beautiful bubbles. We started small but we have big plans to make the world a cleaner, greener, more colourful place. We invite everyone to join us as we pioneer a future where doing business is doing good for all. Let's get one thing straight – you're not coming here to just sell soap, or cleaning products. You're joining us to move the hearts, souls and minds of others all over the world that see the world differently. We think about cleaning as an act of creative expression, a gesture of rebellion, and, yes, an escape from the normal. We take cleaning seriously – but not ourselves. Alongside our friends Mrs Meyers and Babyganics, we are collectively known as Lifestyle Brands and are part of the SC Johnson family. Application: Submit your application today here. Have you made it this far? If you're still reading, we think there's a strong chance you might be our kind of person. Here's the thing, though — research suggests that 60% of women and underrepresented folks might have already talked themselves out of applying. Even if you don't check every box above, we want to encourage you to introduce yourself. We believe a diversity of perspectives and experiences makes a team stronger — and the stronger our team, the closer we are to delivering our ambition of a clean world revolution! It's a big, beautiful, colourful world out there and we should celebrate that. That's why we're working hard to be a fully diverse and inclusive place to work. Every day we strive to create an atmosphere where everyone feels valued, listened to, supported and where we can do our best work. Sure, there's always more that can be done. But together with our team, partners, customers and community, we can make everyone welcome. We want to embrace and live out our renewed D&I commitments by positively encouraging inclusivity of all types during the recruitment process and throughout our employee's lifecycles. With this in mind, all personal data, and photos will be hidden from your CV during the initial stages of the recruitment process. We advertise all our roles on Evenbreak, the specialist job board for disabled candidates. If you have a disability or a long-term health condition and would like support in applying for any of our vacancies, please visit their Career Hive – careers support for disabled candidates delivered by careers professionals with lived experience of disability. Find out more at https://hive.evenbreak.co.uk.We are happy to adjust our hiring process to ensure we are accessible to everyone – please let us know what we can do to support you! Inclusion & Diversity
