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Salary- £55,000
- London
- B Corp
Join this leading B Corp brand and help make meaningful impact in a purpose-driven organisation. As Senior Demand Planner, you will play a pivotal role in managing forecasting and demand planning activities for their major grocery accounts. This position requires a strong background in supply chain management, exceptional analytical skills, and the ability to cultivate collaborative relationships with key stakeholders.
You will work in collaboration with some of the largest global retailers, ensuring that relationships are strong, forecasts are accurate and stock requirements are met. Working closely with the in-house delivery team, you will ensure that their stock is delivered on time, in full, and in line with the critical path.
We are looking for someone with excellent demand planning experience, having worked with, or for, major grocery retailers. You must thrive in a fast-paced role, have a commercial mindset and be team and results focused.
Duties of this Senior Demand Planner role include:- Develop and execute demand forecasting models to support inventory planning and procurement for major grocery accounts.
- Monitor and analyse inventory levels, sales trends, and market conditions to optimise inventory replenishment and minimise stockouts.
- Ensuring customer forecasts are firm and accurate before placing orders with the Buying team, to make sure buying decisions are led/influenced by sales analysis.
- Lead S&OP processes to align demand plans with production and procurement strategies.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key grocery account contacts to understand promotional plans, seasonality, and other demand influencers.
- Continuously improve forecasting accuracy by refining models, incorporating feedback, and leveraging advanced analytics tools.
- Drive process improvements in demand planning methodologies and systems to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
- Take ownership of the critical path for your customers, ensuring required delivery dates are met
- Liaising closely with the factories, ensuring all agreed critical path dates are achieved.
- Liaising with internal departments e.g. delivery team, as required to ensure timely deliveries to key customers are made with agreed packaging, and to agreed deadlines.
- Liaising with internal departments e.g. delivery team, as required to ensure timely deliveries to key customers are made with agreed packaging, and to agreed deadlines.
- 4+ years’ experience within a Demand Planning role dealing with volume accounts.
- Highly analytical and numeric, with a detail-orientated nature.
- Experience of supplying in to, or working for, a major UK grocery account e.g. Tesco.
- Highly analytical and numeric, with strong excel skills desirable.
- A detail-orientated nature and who is able to prioritise workloads.
- A skilled multi-tasker, with excellent organisational skills who thrives in a fast-paced role.
- Accurate, flexible, driven, and proactive.
- An excellent communicator at all levels, both written and verbally, internally and externally
- A friendly team player with a positive outlook.
