Demand Planner

2 weeks ago


Chester, Cheshire, United Kingdom Ardagh Group Full time

Role Title:
Demand Planner - AMP-E

Location:
Chester

PASSION FOR:
Growth, Team work and to Deliver


At Ardagh Metal Packaging we truly believe that people must be at the center of what we do to provide the best beverage packaging solutions on the market to our customers.

We are searching for a sales personality (female, male, diverse), who wants to drive with us our commercial capabilities and wants to belong to our team in an international, dynamic, sustainable and diverse environment.

We search for a European Demand Planner (f/m/d) - preferably within a fast moving consumer goods experience.

The role can be based in our AMP-E locations with the exception of Zug and reports to our Director Demand Planning, Ardagh Metal Packaging - Europe.

You share our beliefs and want to work in an environment based on trust, teamwork and excellence.

YOUR MISSION:


This is a European level role analysing the demand communicated by Regions/Key accounts and plans the total demand to be delivered.

You will be supporting the Demand Planning Director with the implementation of Demand Planning Process and Forecasts statistical tools considering different time horizons.


Key Responsibilities:

  • Working very closely with regional sales and demand teams, understand gaps between short term weekly and shortterm monthly forecast. Maintain established global weekly report. Consolidate Monthly / Weekly demand numbers in central planning process.
  • Preparation of demand history and templates to ensure effective running of the forecasting model and technical tuning of the forecasting tool to maximize results. Support central team with running Volume Clinics with key accounts and regions.
  • Perform root cause analysis in collaboration with Sales team to understand past performance and highlight inconsistencies in future plans. Communication of the demand forecasts in ways that are readily understood in different functions and regions.
  • Challenge the latest Demand Plan from the regions/ key accounts, understand underlying assumptions and compare with the Operations Demand Plan. Measure and communicate risks and uncertainties inherent in the forecasts and support for decision making that results from forecasts created.
  • On time delivery of forecasts to support the monthly S&OP cycle.
  • Lead the critical activity of demand forecasting, integrating baseline forecasts with sales & marketing insights to produce demand plans against which supply network is optimised. Responsible for analysing SKU level forecasts on consistency with previous update and initiate follow up with regions on deviation based on decisionmaking framework.
  • Creation of rigorously developed statistical demand unit forecasts primarily at Cantype/Ship-To level in monthly buckets for Cans and Ends.
  • Maintain relationship with commercial colleagues particularly the maintenance of forecast credibility. Support central commercial teams in adding additional market and customer insight, while challenging unsupported 'gut feel' inputs.

Professional Requirements:

- +5 Years of planning experience

  • Ideally fastmoving consumer goods
  • Advanced communication skills: to be able to explain and persuade non
- specialists of the complex constraints, risks, and choices available in simple every-day language. Accurate reporting and data analysis

  • Inquisitiveness: recognition that planning is just a model of the real world and continually improving understanding of how things really work is essential to improving planning performance
  • Planning expertise: an acute understanding of risks, possibilities and how to evaluate outcome to ensure stable plans that will survive inevitable variation from expectation
  • Understanding of advanced planning approaches, tools, and solutions. Specifically in analytical techniques and in software solutions
  • Demonstrable experience of successfully developing and embedding new ways of working
  • Excellent problemsolving ability
  • Flexibility to structure and prioritise your own work
  • Ability to learn new concepts and skills quickly
  • Expert user of the MS Office suite, especially advance Excel
  • SAP IBP experience will be an added advantage

What we offer:

You can expect a competitive compensation and benefit package. Customised per role e.g. teamwork/ social activities/ development opportunities/ etc. We promote equal opportunities. Diversity enriches our company and gives us an advantage.

About Ardagh Group

Ardagh Group is a global leader in metal and glass packaging solutions, producing packaging for the world's leading brands. We trace our roots all the way back to the Irish Glass Bottle Company, founded in 1932.

Since then we have grown rapidly to a team of more than 20,000 people with revenues of almost $10 billion.

Today we have a presence across Europe, Africa and the Americas.

Did you know that Ardagh produce many of the beverage cans and bottles you drink your favourite beverages from?
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