Demand Planner

Role Purpose

The Demand Planner role is to provide forecasting, and proactive inventory planning improvement recommendations, with a key focus on accurate demand forecasting and a strong S&OP process; promote the Supply Chain department in a positive, professional, and proficient manner; strive to achieve and exceed personal, departmental and Company targets.

Key Responsibilities

• The role of the DP covers EMEA consumer channel and UK Trade Project sales.
• Forecast generation, analysing significant deviations, highlighting missing information and
• solutions.
• Management of CRM project requirements and identification of forecast changes due to project losses or changes
• Ensure timely communication of the forecast throughout the business, particularly before S&OP begins.
• Proactively seek the information to improve the forecast, and chase through information required to the process.
• Undertake Root Cause analysis to understand and improve forecast accuracy
• Work with the Master Planner to configure Optimiza planning tool to suit UK warehouse stocking requirements.
• Forecast maintenance in MAPICS system – e.g., item, seasonality, forecast warehouse etc.
• Management of logical warehouse and stock policy for Consumer dedicated logical warehouses (UK3 and FR3)
• Creation and control of local Projects warehouse (UK4)
• Work with EMEA Consumer teams to ensure Forecasts, Catalogue launches are EPOS data are actioned.
• Management of phase out programmes with retailers managed by EMEA consumer channel.
• Maintain stock availability in line with forecasted sales, checking future stock.
• Through regular review of projected stock levels, identify and communicate any potential out of stock highlighting these and potential solutions to the Supply Planner.
• Identify causes and manage reduction of any excess stock created
• Manage enquiries from the Sales Support team
• Help find alternative solutions to enquiries
• Third party purchase orders for UK specific products
• The job holder may be required to undertake such other reasonable duties as may be required their post, and company from time to time
• The job holder will be asked to travel throughout Europe and UK and must hold the required travel documents
• It is the duty of every employee while at work to take reasonable care for the Health, and Environment of himself and of other persons, who may be affected by his/her or omissions at work, and as regards any duty or requirement imposed on his/her employer or any other person by or under any of the relevant statutory provisions

Person Specification and Background

Skills

• Creative, resourceful, and able to think independently
• Strong Interpersonal & Stakeholder management skills
• Comfortable in using BI and Microsoft Office Tools e.g., Birst, Excel, systems to manage data highly desirable
• Proven problem solving, planning, forecasting and analytical skills, high of numeracy

Education

• Educated to degree or equivalent level. Professional qualification e.g. CIPS desirable but not mandatory

Experience

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a forecasting/ commercial analysis role
• Supply Chain background highly desirable
• Far East/long lead time Supply Chain experience highly desirable

Organizational Values

• Progressive
• Agile
• Trusted
• Approachable