Sales Planning Specialist

**Position Snapshot**:
**Business Area: Nestlé UK&I**
**Sales Planning Specialist**
**Location: York or Gatwick (Hybrid working - approx. 2 flexible days a week at one of our fantastic offices)**
**Attractive Salary: c£35,500 + potential bonus + 12 flexible days in addition to holiday entitlement + other fantastic benefits**

Although this is a full-time permanent opportunity, please speak to us about what flexibility means to you as we are always open to discuss individual’s flexible working needs, don’t let this stop you from applying.

**Position Summary**
What can you expect from a career in the Nestlé Sales Team?
**_Every day and Everywhere, we are building a Sales community of unique people, that thrive together, make a positive difference and deliver market leading results._**

We might be biased but we believe our Sales team here at Nestlé is pretty great and a unique place to work As Nestlé’s multicategory sales team, we manage and develop our customer relationships across Confectionery, Coffee, Food, Dairy and Infant Nutrition. Think Nescafé, KitKat, SMA and much more This means that in one incredible organisation, you can build a fantastic career by moving across different categories as well as adding real breadth to your sales experience.

**A day in the life of a Sales Planning Specialist...**
Reporting to the Sales Planning Analyst Manager, your key responsibilities will include:

- Proactive, independent management of the customer baseline forecasting across a complex category portfolio of products - exploring and leveraging the data we have to advance our statistical baseline forecast adoption.
- Support & challenge any out of cycle (OOC) baseline changes - possessing the confidence and skillset to comfortably challenge and negotiate change with our Sales community - working to deep-dive and root cause the need for OOC Base Changes.
- Make modelling recommendations to determine the best method for the customer - developing a strong understanding of the category and customer needs to make informed decisions.
- Recommend GUI interface and functional improvements with Visualfabriq - exploring technology and toolsets available to enable continuous improvement within the Sales Team.
- Maximise the overall usage of EPOS/Sell Out Data in baseline planning through working to increase the sellout customer data available in Visualfabriq
- Drive capability across the Sales Team - shaping and delivery of training, supporting through clinics and workshops and ownership of new starter inductions to build speed to competency in DFM & Customer Baseline Management.
- Ensuring documentation and user guides are in place to sustain our service and equip our Sales Team to execute processes seamlessly.
- Project Management & System Developments Ownership - owning the exploration, testing, scoping and deployment of new releases and developments in Visualfabriq

**What will make you successful?**
You will have proven experience of working in the Commercial /Supply Chain Function in an FMCG environment and also have a thorough understanding of Sales Planning and Monthly Business planning processes.

A good communicator with strong analytical skills, you will be motivated to be part of a team, build great relationships within the team and with stakeholders, be open to how we can continuously improve as a team, and be the best

Other key skills and experiences we’re looking for include:

- Proactive attitude / a self-starter
- Naturally curious, crucial that you are able to take the initiative when faced with any obstacle
- Makes good use of insightful information and is naturally analytical
- Expert in Excel and comfortable using other Microsoft Office programs, and beneficial to have used Power BI or MS Access
- Great attention to detail
- Organised and adept at prioritising workloads
- Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and decisively to deliver high levels of customer service to internal business partners
- Ability to effectively communicate DFM results to business partners who have no or limited knowledge in the tool
- Strong people and coaching skills

**Why Nestlé?**
In the Nestlé Sales Team, we are creating an environment where we all feel we belong, we are the best we can be, and we win together. We want people to feel they can be themselves, dare greatly and believe their best is yet to come.

We will actively encourage you to gain different experience in a wide range of roles including our Category Development teams. We want our people to have the breadth and depth of experience and as a result an unrivalled Sales career which could lead to senior roles both in the UK and across other markets.

Supported by our industry leading eBusiness and Sales Academies which develops you in all aspects of eCommerce, customer and category management, you truly can achieve your full potential whatever that might mean for you.

We will provide support and coaching to help you develop yourself in