Senior Planner, Emea

**Come and be part of Rock N'Roll History at FENDER** **Fender Musical Instruments Corporation** ("**FMIC**") is one of the world's leading musical instrument manufacturers, marketers and distributors, whose portfolio of brands includes Fender®, Squier®, Gretsch®, Jackson®, EVH®, Charvel® and Groove Tubes®, among others. Our brand mission is to accompany each player at every stage with products and brand experiences that fuel the pursuit of musical expression. Fender EMEA is a growing team that plays a critical role in the engine that delivers Fender to a global audience. We accompany the legendary brand at every step of the way. An American icon, Fender was born in Southern California and has built a worldwide influence extending beyond the studio and the stage. A Fender is more than an instrument, it's a cultural symbol that resonates globally. **About the role** The Fender EMEA Planning team is a small but dynamic department who works on ensuring the balance of demand and supply is met in the region. This department works collaboratively across the business. Our **Planning team** is seeking a **Senior Planner **to join their team**. **In this role you will primarily be responsible for developing and maintain a high quality, collaborative short, mid, and long-term forecast, ensuring supply is maintained in line with customer demand in accordance with budgeted inventory policies while building and maintaining service levels within Supply Chain through relationships with our partners, customers and 3rd party warehouses. The ideal applicant will have the ability to analyse detailed information, with a natural curiosity and desire to solve problems. If you're passionate about making a difference, working with a close knit team, and will enjoy the challenge of working across a European business...this role is for you **Hybrid Working** Post COVID-19, Fender is working under a hybrid flexible working arrangement, with most employees working both from home and the office. This means that in most cases, our employees will experience a blend of working from home, or from the office, dependent on what type of role they undertake and the requirements of that role. We encourage leaders to both manage business requirements and offer flexibility where possible. **Main responsibilities** - Balancing demand with supply while keeping within inventory targets, using relevant demand planning tools. - Working with Sales, Product Managers and Marketing to review and agree demand forecasts, complementing system generated forecasts - Generate and submit planned purchase requirements where appropriate, in line with agreed schedules. - Work closely with Fender Global Demand and Supply Planning teams to improve lead times, inventory holding and customer serviceability. - Manage supply issues and develop alternative plans where delivery schedules cannot be improved. - Manage end of life processes in conjunction with Sales, Product Managers and Marketing to ensure that slow moving and excess inventory is minimised. - Manage New Product Introduction processes in conjunction with Sales, Product Managers and Marketing to ensure a successful launch of new products while ensuring inventory risk is minimised. - Work closely with Sales & Product Managers to reduce Excess and Obsolete Inventory. - Play an active role in supporting the monthly SIOP process. - KPI reporting and control analysis on measures such as (but not limited to) Inventory, Forecast Accuracy, Fill Rate, Slow Moving, New Product Introduction and Excess Inventory - Provide support to the Director of Planning as appropriate - Needs little guidance as to what/how to analyse data, self-starter, curious and desire to get to the root cause - Develop tools/spreadsheets/processes to aid in data analysis and to understand and optimise/improve processes; make recommendations for changes - Comfortable communicating across multiple layers in the organisation; can deliver "bad news" and manage conflict - Ability to document processes, write training material for any reporting/tools created - Develop relationships with various functions to obtain data, learn business processes; be the advocate for supply chain in any additional reporting/tools needed - Seen as a "go-to" person in the business **What you need**: - 5 years of Demand Planning experience - IT systems - experienced in use of SAP or other ERP system - Working knowledge of Logility (or similar) Demand Planning/Supply Planning/Inventory Planning - Strong PC skills with experience of Microsoft packages - Excellent communicator - Commercially aware **Why Work for Fender?** We offer a range of Company benefits to our employees, and we would love you to join the team - **Private Medical Cover** All employees are eligible to join our private health care scheme through salary sacrifice. Employees are eligible to benefit from tax relief of this provision. - **Learning and Development** We have an extensive range