Demand Planner

**Demand Planner**

We are currently recruiting for a **Demand Planner** to support our **On-Trade** customers.

The Demand Planner is accountable for ensuring robust, assumption based demand plans are generated for a set of customers. They will have direct influence & responsibility for high levels of forecast accuracy and low forecast bias. They will work closely with our Customers, Commercial teams, Supply Planning & Customer Service.

**Key Accountabilities**
- Ensure that robust, assumption-based demand plans are in place across various planning horizons (13-week, rolling 18 months and 3-year plan) at the relevant SKU hierarchy for a set of customers
- Generate the best possible demand forecast for the customers in collaboration with our Commercial and Finance teams and your customer contacts
- Drive collaborative planning processes both internally and externally especially around events such as Promotions, NPD listings and Range Reviews.
- Influence and obtain cross functional volume consensus across Sales, Finance, Marketing and Customer (where appropriate) using insight led analysis to demonstrate trends, performance and future expectations.
- Develop a plan that will deliver excellent customer service levels
- High level of focus on reduction of stock write offs in order to drive bottom line profit
- Ensure appropriate systems disciplines are fully utilised, including, but not exclusive to, Statistical Forecasting, history cleansing, segmentation etc.
- Develop & track KPIs to measure performance of forecasts and put actions plans to deliver performance in line with expectation.
- Regularly monitor actual orders against your demand forecast, speedily investigate significant variances, understand root causes and impact across wider Supply Chain.
- Proactively implement corrective measure to ensure that the business is working of the robust plan.
- Demonstrate high personal integrity to develop / manage internal stakeholder relationships

**Experience Required**
- Substantial demand planning or operational planning experience in an FMCG environment
- A background and understanding of planning tools and systems, knowledge of SAP ECC is beneficial. Adaptive Insights (AI) experience considered positive but not essential.
- Broad understanding of the Sales & Operational Planning (S&OP) process
- Advanced Excel (Power Query advantageous) and Power BI experience beneficial for reporting and analysis.
- Strong analytical skills able to make the connections in data, events and trends.
- Experience in a high volume, detailed and process driven organisation
- Highly organised with excellent attention to detail
- Knowledge of the wider E2E Supply Chain ideally within an FMCG environment

**Key Attributes of the Successful Person**
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Able to clearly and productively communicate ideas, plans and priorities to others in a commercially sensitive manner
- Is able to tailor the manner of communication to take into account the very different groups of people communicated with.
- Experience of working cross-functionally at an operational level, with demonstrable evidence of influencing your peer group and above, and strong examples of relationship building and creation of collaborative, customer-focused plans.
- Strong analytical skills able to make the connections in data, events and trends.
- Has a track record of implementing KPIs & in process controls to track, measure and improve performance of agreed forecasts.
- Good understanding and use of IT systems and databases.
- Proven stakeholder management experience
- Excellent project management skills

**What we offer**
- Private Medical and Dental Insurance
- Life Assurance
- Private Pension
- Annual Bonus
- Beer Allowance

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