Collaborative Demand Planner

Kimberly Clark; Lewes; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global hygiene company in the UK is seeking a Collaborative Demand Planner to manage customer relationships and optimize supply chain processes. This role requires strong collaboration, organization, and analytical skills. You will work closely with various teams to ensure customer requirements are met effectively. The position offers a hybrid work model and competitive benefits. Join us to make a meaningful impact in a company dedicated to sustainability and innovation.

Benefits

Gym memberships

Private medical insurance

Dental cover

Cycle to work scheme

Market-leading pension scheme

Qualifications

• Self-driven and highly motivated, with excellent collaboration skills to manage important customer relationships.
• Highly organized with strong interpersonal skills, excellent numerical and analytical skills and ability to work effectively across functions.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Customer Relationship and work collaboratively with the retailer to understand and deliver customer requirements.
• Work collaboratively with Sales, Marketing and Demand Management to evaluate demand forecasts.
• Validate, challenge, and provide assumptions on future SKU level volume and production.
• Optimize end-to-end supply chain inventory and logistics planning.
• Develop and implement customer collaboration best practices.

Skills

Collaboration skills

Organization

Numerical and analytical skills

Job description

Collaborative Demand Planner

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground‑breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

You will work closely with Customer Management, Demand Management, European Supply Chain Services and Logistics, along with the supply teams in the top UK Grocers to ensure business requirements are fulfilled, issues resolved and potential problems are anticipated with corrective action taken.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Customer Relationship and work collaboratively with the retailer to understand and deliver customer requirements on both day to day and strategic objectives
• Work collaboratively with Sales, Marketing and Demand Management to evaluate impact of promotions and base run rate changes on the demand forecast in order to maximise sales, customer service and minimise stock holding to ensure aims and objectives are on track and executed to required standards and timelines
• Validate, challenge, and provide assumptions on future SKU level volume and production
• Active management and communication to optimize end‑to‑end supply chain inventory and logistics planning
• Pro‑active development and implementation of customer collaboration best practices e.g. KPI Service Tracking and Collaborative Planning meetings

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly‑Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly‑Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly‑Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly‑Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly‑Clark.

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development. You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly‑Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

Qualifications

• Self‑driven and highly motivated, with excellent collaboration skills to manage important customer relationships. High levels of drive to succeed and make things happen and comfortable working independently at a customer’s site when required.
• Highly organized with strong interpersonal skills, excellent numerical and analytical skills and ability to work effectively across functions.

Total Benefits

We offer competitive pay and benefits to employees and reward excellence and performance. Our belief in promoting a healthy work‑life balance drives us to support our employees’ total well‑being, offering comprehensive benefits not limited to gym memberships, private medical insurance, dental cover, employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme, critical illness cover, travel insurance and a market‑leading defined contribution pension scheme.

Certain benefits, such as flexible work schedules and parental leave, can be tailored to meet specific individual needs, giving our employees the flexibility to manage their commitments inside and outside of work. We are proud to be rated as a top 100 workplace for working mothers for two years in a row.

To Be Considered

Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will review your application and follow up if you seem like a great fit for this role.

And finally, the fine print….

For Kimberly‑Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world. We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly‑Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by law.

These statements describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

This role is available for local candidates already authorized to work in the role’s country only. Kimberly‑Clark will not provide relocation support for this role.

Primary Location

No K‑C Work Site UK South East

Additional Locations

Worker Type: Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

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