
Demand Planner Folkestone, England
Job description
We’re a company that genuinely cares about our people, our products, our consumers and the environment.
Our unique, informal culture champions courage, determination and collaboration. Knowing we have an open and supportive team means each of us has the freedom to take responsibility and ownership. We have a shared passion to work hard, innovate and push boundaries.
- To maintain a rolling 12–18 month consensus demand plan and gaining full alignment with Key Stakeholders. Influence and hold key partners in Brand, Sales and Finance accountable for consistent forecast inputs and address input gaps. Identify and work to reconcile discrepancies and close gaps on an ongoing basis through comprehensive forecast error reviews.
- To support decision-making considering risks and opportunities by presenting alternative scenarios and assessment of risk and opportunities around the demand plan, and align with commercial team on the consensus
- To support business understanding of volume forecasts and business performance through comprehensive analytics, including drivers of forecast changes and actual shipment variances to forecast. Must partner with key Supply Chain functions
- To communicate monthly forecast error results & KPI’s versus established targets and identify and report on root cause for error above targets. Work to continuously improve all metrics and reporting processes.
- To integrate with Supply Chain teams proactively in managing tradeoff between inventory levels and service levels for GMG region via the monthly S&OP processes
- Responsible for launch forecasts for New Product Introductions to ensure initial purchases are not either excessive or inadequate. Provide relevant guidance for new product development, SKU rationalization, remnant inventory avoidance, and overall supply chain complexity optimization
- Responsible for Root Cause Analysis and providing information to the wider business around insight and reasons for changes to the Demand Plan.
- To continuously improve forecast accuracy using best statistical data and regular communication with the commercial teams and their distributors.
- Previous experience of working as a Demand Planner
- Experience of SAP, Manugistics and/or appropriate Demand Planning tools
- Previous experience of managing large SKU portfolios
- Excellent communication skills – internal & external; written, verbal & presentation
- A high level of attention to detail and extremely results oriented
- Be a critical and strategic thinker – always looking for opportunities to improve.
- Good knowledge of MS Office – particularly Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
- A background in FMCG would be an advantage.
When applying for a role and sending your cv, you understand that the Company will hold your personal data in relation to your prospective employment and will process that data for legitimate business reasons within the requirements of UK data protection laws currently in effect and as they become applicable, including the Data Protection Act 1998, the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679)) and any successor legislation.
