Job Summary
We are seeking a Demand Planning professional to join our organisation in a hybrid or fully remote opportunity. This role will involve working closely with the Commercial team on forecasting and sales planning.
The ideal candidate will have previous demand planning experience, preferably within a fast-paced manufacturing or food business. They should be an Excel expert able to manipulate and analyse large sets of data.
* Create a consensus forecast for use in the S&OP process.
* Manage the monthly cadence for the Demand Planning process.
* Generate and share reports to provide insights and drive the demand planning process.
* Communicate with customers and sales teams to drive improvements to the process.
* Communicate with relevant stakeholders to ensure outputs of the demand plan are taken into consideration.
* Support development projects through to launch, identifying product delists to minimise material risk and service failures.
* Provide support and suggest solutions where business targets are not being realised.
* Train Supply Chain teams on Demand Planning best practices, use of forecasting accuracy and error measures to improve forecasting effectiveness.
About the Role
This is a great opportunity for an analytically-minded individual who is proactive and enjoys working with data. The successful candidate will have the chance to get stuck into some interesting data, provide insights, and suggest solutions to support the organisation's S&OP process.