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Job Description
Demand Planner
Central London
Hybrid working
Up to £38,000 + Bonus
This is a great opportunity for someone to progress their career in supply chain with a highly innovative food business. Our client supplies a range of innovative food products into the major UK and international retailers and are currently recruiting a Demand Planner in the growing supply chain team in London.
Demand Planner responsibilities:
- Create timely and accurate demand plans for all product categories within your customer accounts on a weekly, monthly, and promotional basis.
- Take ownership of forecast accuracy KPIs for your customer accounts, driving root cause identification and corrective actions at the SKU level, and challenging the sales forecast to ensure excellent DPA.
- Support the development of processes to enhance and challenge the wider business, maximizing the robustness of forecasts provided to supply planning, including NPD project launch planning.
- Foster strong relationships internally and externally, adopting a collaborative approach to forecasting and other projects.
- Regularly review customer-level data (e.g., EPOS, stock holding) to assist and challenge the sales team in their forecasting efforts.
- Contribute to the development of the company's S&OP process, creating new ways of working with different business units, and documenting all forecast assumptions, risks, opportunities, and performance tracking.
- Collaborate with the wider supply chain team to identify efficiency savings and reduce cost-to-serve.
To be successful:
- Strong analytical skills with extensive Microsoft Excel knowledge; experience with Power BI and/or Anaplan is a plus!
- Excellent organizational skills and the ability to communicate effectively within a team and with customers.
- Previous demand planning experience in the FMCG sector.
- High energy and self-motivation to thrive in a rapidly growing business with constantly changing priorities.
- Proactive in identifying issues before or as they arise.
- Ability to work under pressure, meeting targets and deadlines.
- Open-minded with a flexible, can-do, and friendly attitude, adaptable to our constantly changing business environment.
- A passion for food