Demand Planner

An exciting new, permanent job opportunity has arisen for an experienced Demand Planner or Supply Chain Planner with good data analysis and reporting skills to join a nationally recognised brand.

This role is to support the supply chain function in growing their stock lines and core product ranges.

This is a pacey role with a large amount of data exposure as the company has several e-commerce websites that they manage and over 50,000 different products.

So this role is needing someone who is an analytical thinker, with very good Excel skills and the ability to do stock profiling and forecasting.

What’s on offer:

Competitive salary of £30-35,000 per annum

23 days holiday + 8 bank holidays

Healthcare schemes

Discounts on all products and retail discounts

Plenty of staff support services including, counselling and learning management system

Office location:

Based in Birmingham, near to Heartlands Hospital.

This is a hybrid working roles, 3 days a week in the office, with 2 days working from home.

Hours are 37 hours a week with some flexibility on start time, where you can start between 7:30am – 9:00am

Duties include:

• Identification, Profiling and forecasting of products based on Service contract customers new appliance model data.
• Non-Stock to Stock Conversion profiling
• Develop effective forecast models based on industry trends and demand patterns.
• Conduct monthly forecast maintenance.
• Monitor and report on important changes in sales forecasts, budgets and business strategies.
• Monitor forecast and safety stock levels and adjust accordingly.
• Creating purchase orders for materials or components, based on ordering schedules and inventory levels.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and objectives and respond quickly to purchasing, sourcing and planning support requests.
• Performance and report to Management.
• Prepare, monitor and lead root cause analysis for Supply Chain metrics, such as excess inventory, forecast accuracy, non-optimal freight and warehouse operations.

The ideal candidate for this role:

• Will have previous demand planning, supply chain planning or production planning experience
• Will have good Excel skills with the ability to perform pivot tables and vlookups as a minimum. Ability to perform marcos will be a plus
• Will ideally have MRP system experience – this company used AX Dynamics
• Must be an analytical thinker
• Must be comfortable with a large amount of data

Therefore if you feel you are right for this role and have the experience and skills stated above then please do not hesitate and apply.