Demand Planner

**Demand Planner**

Location: Bakkavor Bourne, PE10 0AT

Salary: £30,000 - £32,500 depending on experience

Hours: Monday - Friday, 08.30 - 17:00

Highly competitive reward package including Group Pension

Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group

Bakkavor is the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, which is one of the most advanced, innovative and dynamic food markets in the world.

A fantastic opportunity for a Demand Planner has arisen at our manufacturing site based in Bourne, Lincolnshire. Bakkavor Bourne specialises in making prepared fruit, dressed salads and stir fry mixes. It employs over 1,100 people and forms part of the Bakkavor Meals sector in the UK.

**About the role**:

- Update daily the 5-to-28-day customer forecast, review and make recommendations based on various customers criteria. These changes are then to be shared with the wider business.
- This role will be the critical site contact for commercial, finance and procurement teams and will bridge the gap between the live weekly forecast, 52 week raw material figures and the long-range business direction.
- Customer communication will be critical in providing insight into short term events and drive actions to improve sales and service and adopt the business values when engaging with the customer.
- As Demand Planner, you will also review and challenge internal service levels and customer reported service levels and with the support of dispatch/accounts challenge the current claims process to drive an improvement YOY.
- Work alongside the Planning Manager, to drive all systems and processes related to the long-range production plans and labour requirements.

**About you**:

- Proven experience in a similar role within an FMCG environment
- Experience of working with large data sets.
- Ability to influence key people within other departments. Operations, Finance and Commercial.
- Highly competent with IT systems
- An understanding of forecasting systems and methods is advantageous.

**About us**

We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food - you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We’re ambitious. We’re full of ideas. And we’re ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us.

**What you can expect from us**

When joining us you can expect a competitive salary, a strong benefits package and excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group.

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