Demand Planner - 12 Months FTC

McBride PLC; Rochdale; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international FMCG enterprise in the UK seeks a candidate to maintain data within their forecasting system, ensuring accurate demand planning and management. The ideal applicant will have a Bachelor's degree and strong analytical skills, with experience in complex IT systems and statistical forecasting techniques. This position offers a chance to grow within a dynamic team. Applicants should have a good knowledge of Excel and be fluent in English.

Qualifications

• Must have strong numerical and analytical skills.
• Experience with complex IT systems is necessary.
• Knowledge of statistical forecasting techniques is essential.

Responsibilities

• Maintain data within the forecasting system for accurate reporting.
• Identify and resolve master data issues.
• Adjust historical sales data for forecasts.
• Review forecast alerts and act on them appropriately.
• Update promotional forecasts as per business needs.

Skills

Strong numerical and analytical competencies

Comfortable with complex IT systems and processes

Understanding of statistical forecasting techniques

Good knowledge of Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

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,

• 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.

If you are ambitious, self-motivated, hardworking and a team player and interested in growing your career with an International FMCG business, please read through our job opportunity.

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