Job Title: Demand Planning Manager
Reporting to: Commercial Director
Contract: Permanent

Main Duties:

• Ownership of all customers forecasts and effective management of forecast maintenance across the group planning teams.
• Provide and implement strategies that minimize stock outages through improved ordering, scheduling and detailed trend analysis.
• Achievement of agreed KPI’s and metrics such as Forecast Accuracy, OTIF, service Levels, Stock availability, Stock Holding expenditure targets in line with budget.
• Collaboration across the operational planning teams to develop an integrated supply operations planning process.
• Develop and manage relationships internally and externally to ensure a reliable, efficient supply chain from farm to fork.
• Ownership of relationships with our customers Purchasing and Quality teams to understand and support their initiatives and ensuring communication flow is maintained, accurate and timely.
• Collaborate with the logistics/transport and customer inbound teams to ensure inbound deliveries.
• Ensure effective transition management between seasons, varieties, pack types/sizes and origins.

Skills & Requirements:

• Proven experience of demand planning (minimum 3 years)
• Industry experience in an FMCG/Retail environment/Food environment/Customer Supply and chain operations
• Experience of managing an operational end to end supply chain.
• Process driven with evidence of change management and continual improvement.
• Excellent communication skills, self-motivating with an eye for detail and accuracy, able to work to deadlines.
• Problem solver, analytical thinker.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft package, especially Excel and Power Point.
• Clean UK/EU Driving Licence
• Flexible with working hours to meet the demands of the company.

Benefits: Company laptop and mobile, Private Medical Insurance, Life Assurance (4 x Annual salary), Pension, 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays, eligibility to buy or sell up to 5 days holiday per year.