Demand Planner - 12 Months FTC

McBride plc; Manchester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading FMCG company in Manchester is seeking a Demand Planner for a 12-month Fixed-Term Contract. You will maintain high-quality forecasts and adjust demand plans based on commercial insights. Required qualifications include a bachelor's degree, strong numerical and analytical skills, and proficiency in statistical forecasting techniques. Knowledge of MS Office and fluency in English are essential. This full-time role is an opportunity to work in a dynamic environment with significant responsibility.

Qualifications

• Minimum bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Strong numerical and analytical competencies.
• Comfortable with complex IT systems and processes.
• Understanding of statistical forecasting techniques.
• Good knowledge of MS-Office: Excel, Word, Outlook.
• Fluent in English is mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Maintain data within the forecasting system for quality forecasts.
• Adjust historical sales for statistical forecasting.
• Review and act on alerts in the forecasting system weekly.
• Update and enter promotional forecasts according to business needs.
• Carry out demand reviews with Account Managers monthly.

Skills

Numerical competency

Analytical competency

Understanding of statistical forecasting techniques

Comfortable with complex IT systems

Good knowledge of Excel

Fluent in English

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Demand Planner - 12 Months FTC

Locations: Middleton - Manchester. Time type: Full time. Posted on: Posted 2 days ago. Time left to apply: End Date: January 16, 2026 (27 days left to apply). Job requisition id: JR103506.

Key Purpose:

Maintain data within the APO / IBP forecasting system to ensure a high quality forecast. Update the demand plan in line with the monthly cycle, making changes to demand guided by commercial and category updates.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify master data issues and work with Master Data and GIS teams to ensure effective adjustment.
• Adjust historical sales to provide good base data for statistical forecasting and accurate data on historical promotions.
• Review APO / IBP alerts relevant to the role on a weekly basis, acting to resolve all high priority alerts, check all medium priority alerts and take action where necessary. In both cases reference commercial teams where appropriate.
• Review poor statistical forecasts and make recommendations to the APO / IBP Configuration Manager.
• Update and enter promotional forecasts in line with business requirements or support PLM team to enter promotions by helping with volume validation.
• Validate start forecasts volumes, manage the use of the APO / IBP control week in creating accurate forecasts and support PLM team appropriately.
• Ensure stop events in APO / IBP meet the needs of the business by ensuring the forecast and commercially agreed volumes are aligned or support PLM team appropriately.
• Ensure information relevant to forecasting is provided by the commercial teams and this is incorporated appropriately into the demand plan.
• Carry out demand reviews with Account Managers in line with the monthly cycle to capture all unconstrained demand, making adjustments to existing demand and/or adding new demand (including master data creation).
• Raise any concerns around quality of data / information provided with the Account Manager and to BU Demand Manager.
• Document all assumptions and support the preparation for the BU Demand Review.
• Update the demand plan with any constraints that have been applied.

Technical Competencies & Qualifications :

• Minimum bachelor or equivalent experience
• Strong numerical and analytical competencies
• Comfortable with complex IT systems and processes
• Understand of statistical forecasting techniques
• MS-Office: good knowledge of Excel, Word, Outlook,...
• Languages: English mandatory

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