Global Demand Forecast Lead

Advocate Group; Warrington; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Advocate Group is seeking a Demand Planner to join its growing supply chain team. You will own demand forecasting across a diverse product portfolio, building and maintaining accurate forecasts, analyzing trends, and aligning demand with business objectives in a long lead-time, overseas-sourced environment.

The role is hands-on and data-driven, requiring collaboration with sales, marketing and finance to capture demand drivers and support planning processes to ensure product availability.

Qualifications

• Experience in Demand Planning or Supply Planning.
• Experience with long lead-time supply chains (ideally overseas sourcing).
• Comfortable managing forecasts over a 4+ month horizon.
• Experience working with large SKU ranges, including long-tail or spare parts.
• Advanced Excel skills and strong data analysis capability.
• Experience using ERP systems (or similar planning tools).
• Strong understanding of forecasting principles and demand variability.
• Highly organised with strong attention to detail.
• Confident communicator, able to work cross-functionally.
• Proactive, solutions-focused, and driven to improve processes.

Responsibilities

• Develop rolling demand forecasts (4+ months horizon).
• Analyse historical data, trends, and inputs to build forecasts.
• Monitor forecast accuracy and identify improvement opportunities.
• Drive improvements in forecast accuracy and performance.
• Collaborate with sales, marketing, and finance to capture demand drivers.
• Support S&OP processes and demand reviews.
• Work with supply planning to align demand and supply plans.
• Manage demand across core products and large spare parts portfolios.
• Support stock availability while balancing inventory and working capital.
• Operate in a long lead-time environment (16 weeks, overseas supply).
• Produce regular reporting and insights using ERP and Excel.
• Maintain high data accuracy across planning systems.

Skills

Forecasting

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Attention to detail

Tools

Excel

ERP systems

Job description

Advocate Group is seeking a Demand Planner to join its growing supply chain team. You will own demand forecasting across a diverse product portfolio, building and maintaining accurate forecasts, analyzing trends, and aligning demand with business objectives in a long lead-time, overseas-sourced environment.

The role is hands-on and data-driven, requiring collaboration with sales, marketing and finance to capture demand drivers and support planning processes to ensure product availability.