Demand Planner

6 months ago

Woking, United Kingdom Asahi Europe & International Full time

**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

We are committed to nurturing a workplace where we celebrate and respect difference, and support everyone to be true to who they are At Asahi Europe and International we believe you can SHINE AS YOU ARE - no matter your age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We want to support you to be courageous in your individuality and to know that whoever you are and whatever your circumstances, you can belong with us without having to conform.

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