Demand Planner

The Crosby Group’s common key messages and core values are:
Safety - Reliability - Innovation

The Crosby Group is looking for a Demand Planner, located in Cradley Heath,

**Mission**

The Demand Planner is responsible for all forecasting activities associated with customers and products.

The Demand Planner creates and maintains forecast models for their customers, incorporating business intelligence and forecast information gathered from sales, marketing, and intercompany customers.

The Demand Planner is the integration point into the sales and commercial organization. Basic forecast modelling is the responsibility of this position. This position leads the dialogue each month for their respective customers and products with key counterparts in Sales and Marketing.

The Demand Planner will establish and drive KPI framework to monitor the forecasting process and to ensure all relevant master data is timely completed and accurate at all times.

**Demand Planning External & Internal Customers**

**- **Create baseline sales and replenishment forecasts

**- **Gather, analyze and validate shipment data

**- **Review resulting statistical forecast model

**- **Summarise/aggregate statistical forecasts

**- **Review sales plans, customer finance Budget Updates or Latest Views and demand drivers.

**- **Present, solicit, and assess feedback on the various forecasts from sales, and finance

**- **Recommend adjustments for operational forecasts

**- **Review promotional plans with sales

**- **Achieve consensus for operational demand forecasts by facilitating a collaborative planning process with sales, marketing, and finance personnel:
**- **Prepare relevant material to facilitate research and discussion

**- **Achieve consensus for intercompany replenishment by facilitating a collaborative planning process with the intercompany partners.

**- **Facilitate the Monthly Demand Review meetings

**- **Achieve consensus with the business side and the demand chain

**- **Maintain demand planning system and software

**- **Enter and modify data and ensure the correctness of product hierarchy

**- **Monitor trends in forecast error

**- **Prepare and maintain relevant reports pertaining to demand planning process

**Demand Planning Parameters & Master Data maintenance**

**- **Collect and validate data identified on requests for creation / adjustment

**- **Drive periodic maintenance process, update master data across business systems

**- **Assist business process experts in defining standard operating procedures, process flows and related documentation

**- **Communicate newly created materials, data records, and results

**- **Work with business units and process experts to resolve master data issues

**- **Ensure data quality, compliance, and consistency

**- **Share suggestions for governance process improvement and effective enhancements

**Skills & Qualification**

**Experience**

**- **At least 2 years of planning experience with ERP Systems, preferably in demand planning

**- **Proven experience in SAP

**Technical Skills**

**- **Excellent analytical and excel skills

**- **Ability to collect, organise, process, and disseminate significant numbers of master data requests and transactions

**Education**

**- **Bachelor degree in Business Analytics, Supply Chain Management or Logistics

**- **APICS or other forecasting Certification preferred

**Languages**

**- **Fluent in English

**Competencies**

**- **Strong attention to detail is a must

**- **Logical, process-based approach to problem resolution

**- **Customer focused and clearly communicate

**- **Able to build and maintain effective working relationships with other teams that support the delivery of quality work

**- **Enthusiasm for working with ERP systems

**- **Demonstrates ownership of assigned responsibilities with a confident, independent and determined attitude

**- **Strict, disciplined approach

**- **Outstanding process awareness and respect for procedures

**- **Able to work independently and in a team setting

Full time, permanent position

Competitive rate of pay

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Cradley Heath: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- Bachelor's (required)

**Experience**:

- demand planning: 2 years (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: One location

Reference ID: Demand Planner