Demand Planner

7 months ago

Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom Arco Full time

**About The Role**:
Are you passionate about shaping the future of customer satisfaction through strategic forecasting and collaborative planning? Arco, the UK's leading integrated health and safety experts, is seeking a dynamic and results-driven Demand Planning Specialist to play a pivotal role in influencing and obtaining cross-functional consensus across sales, finance, and category teams.

As a Demand Planner at Arco you will be responsible for influencing and obtaining cross functional consensus across sales, finance and category teams in order to forecast future customer consumption patterns and behaviours. You will also be responsible for driving collaborative demand plans direct with customers to agree service levels, stock investments and alternatives where required.

Key responsibilities include:

- Owning and driving performance for the demand element of the sales plan, championing and driving adherence to best in class processes
- Developing, implementing and improving collaborative forecasting by working with sales teams, account managers, category, retail teams and customers
- Ensuring demand forecasts are informed by statistical forecasts, historical sales trends and business, brand and category insight, to ensure the forecast is robust and reflective of latest market intelligence
- Providing input, insight and challenge in the development of product life cycle strategies on product range and proposition
- Working with new customer wins and effectively onboard new consumption rates into the overall plan
- Providing insight to finance on risks and opportunities at a customer level
- Acting as a gatekeeper to Supply Planning ensuring high quality forecasts drive the right inventory investments

On top of working for the UK’s leading integrated health and safety experts, you’ll also receive:

- A competitive starting salary plus up to 10% annual bonus
- 32 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays, plus the option to purchase up to 5 more days
- 2 fully paid Community Volunteering days every year
- An excellent pension and 8x salary Life Assurance scheme
- A huge range of high street retailer discounts to help with cost of living via MyArco Perks
- Free, 24-hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to our Learning Management System, to support your personal and career development
- Long-term service awards - we’re proud to have employees who have worked for us for 40 years

About you

The ideal Demand Planner will be/have
- Previous experience in a similar role
- A working knowledge of SAP, specifically SAP IBP would be greatly advantageous
- Previous experience of developing, and implementing strategic plans
- Management of a variety of stakeholders
- Must have strong communication skills
- Excellent IT skills, including Microsoft Office programmes

**About Us**: As the UK’s leading integrated health and safety experts, Arco combine multi-channel distribution of 170,000+ products with specialist training, consultancy, and site services. Our history spans over almost 140 years, and we are at the start of an exciting new chapter, with ambitions to make us more profitable and sustainable, following the recent appointment of our new CEO.

We’re 100% committed to developing our business in a way that benefits our people, our customers, the communities we serve and the planet. We are now moving forward through a period of change as we begin to align our culture, behaviours and ways of working to drive performance and ensures we will succeed together and be rewarded for that shared success. Because It’s on us. To deliver. Together.

Our behaviours; Perform, Care, Collaborate and Deliver, create and turn in to tangible actions, and we’re now looking to recruit a Demand Planner who can align to these behaviours, and help us achieve our goals.

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