Demand Planner

**Location**:Cheadle, UK

**Who we are**

We are Newell Brands Home Fragrance and the home of Yankee Candle, WoodWick and Millefiori Home Fragrance products and candles. We believe in the power of fragrance to transform your life, your space, your mood. We have a people first culture, grounded in our values (Truth, Transparency, Teamwork, Trust).

Based beside our EMEA Head Office, in control of the smooth running of our famed brands, our fantastic Distribution Centre in Bristol’s Avonmouth is responsible for the transportation of our famous candles and home fragrance products across the globe.

**What you’ll be doing**

The Demand Planner is responsible for all forecasting activities associated with customers and products. The Demand Planner creates and maintains the forecast by incorporating business intelligence and forecast information gathered from sales, marketing, finance and the Customer. To be successful in this role, you will need to not only take constructive feedback from key stakeholders, but also be assertive with your findings.

**Why you want to work with us**

As well as an excellent benefits package, you will be joining a team who cares about people, culture and employee engagement. At Newell Brands, we are always striving to grow our people. As a global company, we have opportunities for you to develop and participate in our thriving company culture.

**To work with us you will need to**
- Be able to help contribute to an inclusive environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging
- Communicate transparently, consistently and in a timely manner
- Prioritize the health, safety and wellbeing of you and your colleagues
- Encourage calculated risks to enable continuous improvement.
- Think outside the box and put your customer (internal and external) first
- Stay calm while under pressure
- Don’t be afraid to ask for help

Benefits include
- Pension: 3% employee 6% employer
- Cycle to work Scheme
- Health and Wellbeing allowance of up to £35 month (e.g. Gym Membership)
- Private Health Care (Bupa)
- Employee discount
- Employee giveaways
- 25 days holiday (Full time employees) plus bank holidays
- Qualifications - External
- Experience you’ll need
- Developing demand forecasts (operational forecasts) at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons as part of a demand planning function.
- Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast results to drive greater forecast accuracy.
- Coordinate cross-functional discussion to reconcile significant variances and refine the forecast model to reflect updated sales and marketing assumptions.
- Interact with sales, marketing, and customer replenishment (OM) to understand demand forecast drivers.
- Utilise a collaborative and consensus approach by working with Sales, Marketing and Finance to obtain and ensure that current and accurate information is used for demand forecasts.
- Use and maintain the Demand Planning software as the primary forecasting system tool.
- Provide input to the Supply Planning organisation in developing inventory strategies on existing items, new products, and product phase-outs.
- Closely coordinate and communicate customer action plans with supply planning.
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Math, Statistics, Economics, Supply Chain
- Experience: Supply Chain, Demand Planning, Customer collaboration, Material Planning or Distribution Planning
- Systems: Advanced use of Excel is essential, SAP / SAP APO / SAP IBP and PowerBI is an advantage
- Good understanding of S&OP processes in an international business environment, including demand & supply planning processes