Demand Planner

Demand Planner

1 Year FTC

£35,000 - £40,000 plus excellent benefits

South Manchester - Hybrid Working

B Corp certified company

Hybrid & Flexible Working & Dog friendly office!

Looking for a new challenge? Wanting to work for reputable organisation who genuinely offers excellent career development, excellent holidays, pension, free car parking, free gym, private healthcare and so much more?

Our client is a well-established FMCG company that is dedicated to delivering high-quality and innovative products. Due to their ever-expanding growth they are now seeking a Demand Planner to join their team. The business is well respected and successful -its success is based on great products, hard work, flexibility, and innovation and delivering results.

The purpose of the role is to lead the monthly demand forecasting process across the North America and Canada regions. Ensuring that the business has a single, quality demand forecast and that the right stakeholders understand the numbers, risks and opportunities in order to make sound business decisions.

Duties include:

• Leading the monthly demand forecasting process across the US and Canada:
• Analysis of historical EPOS/Sage/customer sales, orders received/invoiced, customer forecasts and ordering patterns data to map and predict future demand trends.
• Work cross functionally with sales team to look at promotional plans, new customer listings, range extensions etc.
• Work collaboratively with Supply Chain planners to analyse supply plans and SKU categorisation.
• Delivering forecast recommendations based on insights into performance, including, NPD launches, new customer listings, growth or decline trends.
• Helping to drive forecast accuracy measures and trackers that drive a great forecast and an understanding of the drivers of demand across the business.
• Driving process improvements and implementing forecasting software

The successful candidate will need to have previous experience working in a Demand Planner role - preferably within an FMCG environment.

You will have excellent communication and organisations skills as well as the ability to multi-task. Candidates with advanced Excel skills will be of particular interest.

Our client is looking for someone with a can-do attitude, who has the eagerness, passion and drive to succeed in a demanding and challenging environment were accuracy and attention to detail is key.

My client offers competitive salaries and great benefits including: free gym, generous holidays, 5% matched pension, free parking, healthcare.

Based in South Manchester, not far from Manchester Airport they also have great public transport links.

Apply online or further information please contact one of our specialist consultants quoting reference number: NJR15366