Demand Planner

7 months ago


Chiswick Park Station, United Kingdom pladis Full time

Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you.

As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.

To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact

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What will this role achieve?

Are you an individual that enjoys working at pace? Are you detailed, numerical, tenacious and challenging with a sense of urgency to deliver results?

Our Demand Planning team offer great career progression and as such we are always keen to hear from experienced individuals at all levels. If successful your primary responsibility is to lead the base and promotional forecast for your customer portfolio at a customer-sku level, working with the account team and collaboration manager to improve the accuracy of the forecast.

What will be your key deliverables?- Resolve trends and notable forecast deviations in the short and medium term and understand reasons for forecast deviations to support forecast adjustment decisions.- Conduct formal weekly forecasting meetings with Account Managers to review and amend short and medium term forecasts.- Own the decision making in forecast adjustments, using historical and current data to rationalise proposed changes. Particular focus to be given to post promotional performance, new product launches, distribution changes & future promotional phasing.- Extract and utilise EPOS data for your respective account on a weekly (and occasionally daily) basis to understand rate of sale in store for your product portfolio.- Review customer order placement daily and challenge significant deviations to the forecast.- Own the Customer 30/60/90 meetings, supported by the Collaboration manager and the Account Manager.- Meet the monthly forecast accuracy & bias targets.- Attend the weekly alignment meetings in conjunction with the collaboration manager and account manager to agree changes to the short-term forecast.- Maintain data inputs to the demand planning forecast management tool.- Attend regular Demand Planning meetings and provide input on sales performance to share potential market changes with your colleagues.- Formally request increases in demand from the supply chain via short notice requests form.- Work collaborating with Sales Team to ensure seasonal phasing is continually aligned with the formal seasonal forecast freeze for your account.- Ensure future promotional demand has been reviewed prior to internal sign off.- Work with the collaboration manager to deliver 98.5% inbound service level for your accounts.- Analyse stock holding data to best understand how this could impact customer order placement and adjust the forecasts accordingly.- Maintain master data within the demand planning system.

Bring your experience

Essential- Validated experience of working for an FMCG manufacturer in the role of demand planner.- Full awareness and understanding of the Sales & Operational Planning Processes.- High degree of understanding of the business drivers and factors that impact on related KPIs- Understanding and appreciation of master data

Desirable- Highly numerate and analytical- IT literate with strong Excel capability- Understanding of both supplier-customer engagement and end-to-end supply chain planning processes.- Capable of chairing / running forecast review meetings with internal colleagues and external customers.- Ability to negotiate and influence at a Senior level- Able to prioritise workload & cope with pressure in a fast paced environment- Ability to work optimally with cross functional teams

Our Purpose

Bring happiness with every bite

It’s a purpose that every one of our colleagues, all around the world believes in. And while we’re all unique, we also share the same values.

Each of our values is meaningful on its own. In combination they’re exceptionally powerful.

Our values have deep personal meaning to us. They’re part of who we are and what we stand for as an employer

Living our pladis values is a key part of success, look out for questions in your interview that link to these key pladis values.

Our Values- Purpose led - We’re energised and guided by our purpose to bring happiness with every bite- Agile - We’re ever evolving, we never stand still, always improving for our customers and our consumers- Positive


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