Demand and Supply Planner

**About The Role**:
Are you ready to become a pivotal part of the UK’s leading health and safety experts, driving the success of our supply chain with your expertise? We are seeking a dynamic Demand & Supply Planner to join our team. In this critical role, you will be the mastermind behind managing a diverse range of products, with the responsibility for forecasting approximately 2,500 SKUs sourced from around 100 vendors. Your analytical prowess will be key in maintaining customer service levels and managing inventory across a category that delivers around £70m in revenue.

Your day-to-day will be filled with challenges and opportunities, from developing accurate demand forecasts using Arco's state-of-the-art tools to collaborating with key stakeholders for the introduction and phase-out of products. You will be the linchpin that aligns our supply chain with the sales strategy, driving supplier performance to achieve excellence.

The role is a full-time, permanent position with a hybrid working pattern, splitting your time between home and office working.

Key responsibilities include:

- Using and maintaining the Arco forecast and supply tools to ensure their optimal usage to develop robust demand and supply plans for own products to feed the overall Arco Supply and Demand plan.
- Developing a demand forecast for respective categories and customers at both a detailed level and also multiple levels of aggregation.
- 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.
- Analysing and evaluating historical sales trends and utilise a collaborative approach to reconcile forecast variances and refine forecast models to reflect assumptions to drive improved accuracy of forecasts.
- Liaising with key stakeholders to monitor NPI forecast and assumptions reflecting changes where required and ensure the smooth introduction and exit of products.
- Optimising inventory to achieve budget targets, whilst maintaining customer service.
- Creating and managing a rolling supplier forecast taking into consideration the sales forecast and understand impact of vendor’s ability to supply against the forecast.
- Co-ordinating the resolution to demand/supply imbalances with supply chain, category management, sales and operations.
- Collaborating with key suppliers to drive improvements to supplier performance to deliver best in class service.

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 (pro rata) 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 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 & Supply Planner will be/have:

- Excellent knowledge of supply chain processes and systems
- Good knowledge of inventory management and forecasting principles & logic
- Comfortable working with and analysing large data sets.
- Strong interpersonal & communication skills
- Commercial Awareness & market trends
- Proficient in Microsoft Office tools (Excel, Word, Powerpoint)
- Large volume sku management within a distribution environment
- Experience of working within a multi-site business environment
- Experience in Supply Planning to support both a B2B and B2C customer environment.
- Good understanding of UK domestic, European and Rest of World Supply Chains

**About Us**: With a 140-year legacy, Arco are recognised as the UK's leading safety experts. As the only integrated safety products and services business, our size, scale and reputation in the sector are why we have such an impressive portfolio of accounts and customers. We're the expert safety partner with a unique mix of specialist expertise and practical real-life industry knowledge.

We are now on a transformation journey to become more profitable and sustainable, with investment into our growing business to help achieve this. This is an exciting and demanding time for the business. There is opportunity to shape and challenge the transformation journey and future growth, while balance the pressure to deliver sales growth and financial targets that are necessary to support the future growth. Our behaviours; Care, Collaborate, Perform and Deliver, are embedded within our culture, to drive performance and ensure we succeed together and are rewarded for that shared success. Because It’s on us. To deliver. Together.

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