Demand Planner

**WELCOME TO KFC AND YUM**

**WHO ARE KFC?**

Colonel Harland Sanders opened the first KFC in Corbin, Kentucky in 1938. He started with one restaurant, 11 herbs and spices, and an idea. From there our incredible brand and product grew to what it is today.

KFC first came to the UK in 1965 with our first restaurant in Preston, Lancashire. Today we are a billion-pound business with over 1000 restaurants run by our 28,000 restaurant team members. Our headquarters are based at the Restaurant Support Centre (RSC) in Woking, Surrey - a 24-minute train from Waterloo. Of the c.1000 restaurants in the UK, 95% are owned and operated by 34 franchise partners; the remaining 5% are company owned and run.

**WHO ARE ‘YUM’?**

KFC is one of the 5 brands operated by our parent company Yum along with Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, The Habit Burger Grill and recently added Heartstyles. We are the world’s largest restaurant group with over 52,000 restaurants across the globe.

Yum isn’t your average Fortune 500 company. We like to do things a little differently. From our world-famous culture of fun and recognition to our focus on your career potential.

**OUR CULTURE**

**BREAKTHROUGH RESULTS, TEAMWORK AND RECOGNITION**

We believe that our success is driven by the power of our employees working in unison with a shared set of common goals and values. We are very proud that KFC UKI is recognised as a key market not only in terms of profit and innovation but also for the talent we grow and develop for Yum.

We invest heavily in our people and helping them drive their personal development. As part of this we give each of our managers in the business the opportunity to go through Heartstyles. Heartstyles is a tool and strategy to measure and manage culture, building people’s self-awareness and helping them to transform their behaviours. This tool can then be used in coaching conversations you have with your team and line manager and to help build effective individual development plans.

We celebrate success every day and to us recognition is much more than just saying thank you
- it is about really celebrating achievements, milestones and behaviours. One of the ways we do this is through our own personal recognition awards.

As a company we take our corporate social responsibility very seriously and encourage our employees to ‘give something back’ through companywide charity efforts.

As an equal opportunity employer, we embrace individuality and diversity. We employ irrespective of background, age, ethnicity, colour, gender, disability, sexual or religious orientation and marital status.

**MORE ABOUT THE ROLE**

We are looking for an action driving, enthusiastic, independent, supply chain superstar to join the KFC Supply chain team, playing a lead role in translating the strategic business plan through facilitation and collaboration into demand plans for the purpose of supply chain planning.

The Supply Chain team at KFC is a regional based team made up of Procurement, Product Integrity (QA) and Supply Chain Ops (Distribution). Collectively, we’re responsible for sourcing and delivery of products to our restaurants across Pan EU.

Our wider supply chain team are based across Pan EU and our dedicated Supply Chain Ops teams are predominantly based in local markets.

The role sits within the local market Supply chain Ops team, primarily responsible for ensuring that product demand forecast is created, reviewed, published and refined when appropriate for short, medium and long term horizons. Part of the role includes leading the integration of customer demand plans into the KFC business through joint business planning.

**KEY JOB FUNCTIONS INCLUDE**:

- Lead the integration of demand plans into KFC business through joint business planning.
- Drive the creation of short, medium, and long terms demand baseline forecast at SKU item level
- Coordinate the creation of a promotional forecast at SKU item level
- Work with Marketing and Finance teams to combine, refine and publish total business demand plan (in applicable levels/aggregated views e.g., by product, by category etc.)
- Measure forecast accuracy at granular and total category levels
- Create insights from business forecast analysis to drive continuous improvement (specifically from a proactiveness point of view) in supply chain
- Maintain all product related Master Data - Including BOM files and price MDBs
- Support Supply Planning with management of short-dated stock
- Work with marketing and finance departments on impact of mix changes on business profitability and supply planning.
- Assist in developing the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), providing longer term analysis of demand to assist Supply Chain Leadership in assessing long term supply capacity needs
- Manage NPD introduction demand plans to deliver key KPIs, collaborates with Supply Planning Managers in planning for new items and items to be transitioned or discontinued.
- Drive service levels with increment