Demand Planner

Nisbets; Bristol; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Nisbets Limited is recruiting a Demand Planner on a Maternity Cover basis to join the Inventory team. The role focuses on forecasting, planning and managing stock across the product portfolio, ensuring availability while optimizing inventory levels.

Based in Avonmouth with hybrid working options, you will collaborate across Category, Product, Supply Chain, and Supplier partners to deliver accurate forecasts and drive continuous improvement in inventory processes.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in demand planning, forecasting, inventory management, or supply chain planning within a fast-paced, multi-SKU environment.

Responsibilities

• Drive improvements in forecast accuracy and stock availability through effective use of demand planning and inventory management tools.
• Review and manage forecast exceptions, ensuring demand planning parameters are maintained and regularly updated.
• Create and maintain forecasts for new product launches and promotional activities.
• Monitor and improve stock health, proactively identifying and managing slow-moving or underperforming lines.
• Analyse unusual demand patterns and take corrective action to minimise availability risks.
• Review trading profiles and demand trends to continuously improve forecasting accuracy.
• Collaborate with Category Management teams to optimise lead times, supplier performance, minimum order quantities, and end-of-life planning.
• Calculate and manage supplier purchase orders to ensure timely product availability.
• Maintain order books, including promise date accuracy, stock shortage reporting, delivery discrepancy resolution, and purchase order adjustments.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives and maintain up-to-date operational procedures and documentation.
• Manage stakeholder relationships across Category, Product, IT, Suppliers, Distribution Centres, and Supply Chain Operations.
• Ensure all daily, weekly, and monthly planning activities are completed accurately and on time.

Skills

Demand planning

Forecasting

Inventory management

ERP systems

Power BI

Excel (Advanced)

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Tools

Power BI

ERP systems

Excel

Job description

Nisbets Limited are currently recruiting for a Demand Planner to join our Inventory team on a Maternity Cover basis, supporting the effective forecasting, planning, and management of stock across our product portfolio. In this role, you will play a critical part in ensuring excellent product availability while maintaining optimal inventory levels across the business.

As an Inventory & Demand Lead at Nisbets, you will work collaboratively with Category, Product, Supply Chain, and Supplier partners to deliver accurate demand forecasts, manage stock health, and drive continuous improvement across inventory planning processes. You will use forecasting and inventory management tools to identify trends, mitigate supply risks, and support commercial decision-making.

This is a fast-paced and analytical role, requiring strong attention to detail, excellent planning skills, and the ability to influence stakeholders across multiple functions. You will be responsible for balancing availability, stock cover, supplier performance, and inventory investment while contributing to ongoing process improvements and operational efficiencies.

This role will be based in Avonmouth, with flexibility to work from home as part of a hybrid working pattern.

Key Accountabilities

• Drive improvements in forecast accuracy and stock availability through effective use of demand planning and inventory management tools.
• Review and manage forecast exceptions, ensuring demand planning parameters are maintained and regularly updated.
• Create and maintain forecasts for new product launches and promotional activities.
• Monitor and improve stock health, proactively identifying and managing slow-moving or underperforming lines.
• Analyse unusual demand patterns and take corrective action to minimise availability risks.
• Review trading profiles and demand trends to continuously improve forecasting accuracy.
• Collaborate with Category Management teams to optimise lead times, supplier performance, minimum order quantities, and end-of-life planning.
• Calculate and manage supplier purchase orders to ensure timely product availability.
• Maintain order books, including promise date accuracy, stock shortage reporting, delivery discrepancy resolution, and purchase order adjustments.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives and maintain up-to-date operational procedures and documentation.
• Manage stakeholder relationships across Category, Product, IT, Suppliers, Distribution Centres, and Supply Chain Operations.
• Ensure all daily, weekly, and monthly planning activities are completed accurately and on time.

Capabilities, Skills and Experience Required

• Proven experience in demand planning, forecasting, inventory management, or supply chain planning within a fast-paced, multi-SKU environment.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills (Intermediate to Advanced level).
• Experience using resource planning, forecasting, or ERP systems.
• Understanding of inventory control principles, supplier performance metrics, lead times, and stock availability management.
• Knowledge of long supply chain planning and inventory optimisation techniques.
• Experience using reporting and business intelligence tools such as Power BI would be advantageous.
• Previous experience leading or mentoring team members would be beneficial.
• Excellent analytical, organisational, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building capabilities.
• A collaborative and flexible approach with the ability to work effectively across multiple teams.
• High attention to detail and a commitment to delivering accurate, high-quality work.

About Us

Nisbets is committed to providing equality of opportunity for all colleagues. We aim to ensure our workplaces are free from discrimination and that not only colleagues but also our potential future colleagues are treated fairly and with dignity and respect.
Therefore, please inform us of any reasonable adjustments that we may need to make to the application or interview process.

Here at Nisbets, we aim high and we dream big.From a one-man operation in 1983, to the UK’s market leader today – it’s always been our determination to hit whatever goal we set ourselves, no matter how big. And we’ve done it time and time again.

We’re looking for experts. Passionate, forward thinkers who obsess about our customers as much as we do. We need strivers, trailblazers and problem solvers who are as determined to grow, develop and succeed as we are.

We’re determined to take the next step. But we need your help to do it.It’s all about you.

If you’re looking for a forward-thinking business on which to leave your mark; where your work is valued; Where you’ll test your skills and then develop them further than you thought you could - Nisbets is for you.

You’ll be pushing the boundaries with us, day in day out. You’ll work in a fast-paced, ever changing environment. You’ll collaborate with a wide range of other experts around the business, bringing big ideas to life, and play a leading role in taking our journey to the next level.

We are a business with heart.From the small indie diner to the Michelin-star restaurant, Nisbets deliver the equipment they need to excel. If you join our team you’ll be working in a family-owned business that isn’t afraid to let you grow. That understands the value of innovation. And that puts our impact on the environment, our commitment to ethical trading and our determination to being a fully transparent business at the forefront of all we do.