AddressAre you looking for new challenges and personal growth within Coca-Cola Europacific Partners? Then we have a great opportunity for you!
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Can you sustain the pace to keep on growing?
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Demand Planner, Professional
12 Month Contract
Location: Uxbridge but can be flexible for Nottingham
Purpose of the role:
Demand Planning is part of the GB Planning & Commercialisation Department which includes: Commercialisation, Demand Planning, Production Planning, Materials Planning, Allocation and Deployment.
The Demand Planning team are responsible for leading the Sales & Operations Planning process within the GB BU to ensure that imbalances between demand and supply are proactively identified and co-ordinated solutions are put in place in a timely manner. Demand Planning are responsible for managing the demand signal across a group of product portfolios and customers for the purposes of driving Supply Chain and supporting an accurate supply plan that maximises service to our customers at least cost.
The Demand Planning, Professional role is responsible for developing the sales forecast for a group of SKUs (product portfolio) and customers and ensuring its quality. The role is responsible for supporting the monthly S&OP process and the quality of its inputs and outputs and drive actions to resolve potential supply issues.
Key responsibilities:
Reporting directly to the Senior Manager for Demand Planning the key responsibilities of the Professional, Demand Planning are:
- Executes the Demand Planning process and forecast activities for a product portfolio
- Produces and maintains the full demand forecast in SAP IBP:
- Maintains a SKU forecast by customer
- Understands EPOS and Stock Holding management
- Collaborative planning with Commercial and Supply Planning
- Planning Promotions, maintaining a Promotional customer plan
- Sets up, plans and review stock builds and customer specific activities
- Perform Post implementation reviews on Key Promotions and activities
- Sets up and maintains suitable statistical forecasting models, maintains actuals history as needed
- Performs forecast enrichment to adjust the statistical forecast as needed
- Develops or reviews the baseline forecast and agrees it with Key Account Managers (KAMs)
- Develops short and long term demand plan
- Reviews and validates demand plan with Senior Manager Demand Planning
- Performs analysis to understand key drivers behind the gap between the Demand Planning system (SAP IBP) andtrade promotions planning system (Promax)
- Performs weekly demand control
- Maintains master data for new products (NPD) and new variant codes (new projects)
- Collaborates, as and if required, with KAMs to gather business intelligence and to agree a baseline forecast
- Supports the monthly S&OP process and ensures the quality of its inputs and outputs
- Supports resolution of supply chain issues with Supply Planning
Skills & Essentials:
- Relevant Demand Planning experience ideally in an FMCG environment
- Good analytical skills with proficiency in the use of Excel and Powerpoint
- Experience in Demand Planning systems (SAP IBP DP)
- Good communication skills (including presentation skills) with the ability to facilitate effective meetings as required
- Strong Interpersonal skills
- Experience in customer facing roles
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) is a major fast-moving consumer goods business and the world’s largest independent Coca-Cola bottler. We’re a dedicated team of 33,200 people, serving 2 million customers in 29 countries. We make, sell and distribute the world’s most loved drinks brands - including Coca-Cola®, Fanta®, Sprite®, Costa Coffee® and Monster®. We’ve also expanded into alcohol with ready to drink Jack Daniel’s and Coca-Cola. We want a workforce that is as diverse as our products – with a culture that fosters belonging and inclusivity.
From gender, age and ethnicity to sexual orientation and different abilities, we welcome people from all walks of life and empower unique perspectives. We recognise we’ve got some way to go, but we’ll get there with the support of our people. It’s them who drive our future growth. To find out more about what it’s like to work at and our culture we would welcome you to speak to one of our employees on our live chat platform, just click here to speak to an insider.
We recognise some people prefer not to participate in alcohol related sales, interactions, or promotions. If that’s true for you – please raise this with your talent acquisition contact who will advise you on whether this role includes activities related to our alcohol portfolio.
