Junior Demand Planner

Loaf (Loaf.com); Greater London; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Healthcare cash plan

Cycle to work

Life Assurance

Job summary

Loaf is seeking a Senior Assistant / Junior Merchandiser or Demand Planner to join our demand planning team in London. You will forecast and trade categories, providing analysis to support range planning and stock management.

Work with the Product Development team on launches, phaseouts and pricing, update linecards and forecasts, and ensure product availability while avoiding overstocks. You’ll need to be highly analytical, super organised, and comfortable working to deadlines.

Qualifications

• Strong Excel skills and experience with forecasting and merchandising systems.
• Analytical mindset with attention to detail and data accuracy.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Forecast and trade categories to optimise sales and stock.
• Provide weekly and monthly category analysis and present findings.
• Maintain department linecards and forecasting orders.
• Collaborate with Product Development on launches and range planning.
• Support MD meetings with insights; manage stock and pricing during sales.
• Update monthly and year-end range plans and assist with new launches.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Forecasting

Analytical thinking

Time management

Communication skills

Job description

At Loaf we make insanely comfy sofas, beds and homewares that help people lead more comfortable lives. Founded in 2008, Loaf has steadily grew each year to become one of the leading premium furniture and homeware brands in the UK. We now have 11 Shacks (stores to everyone else!), with more on the way. It\'s an exciting time to join an ambitious business.

Reporting into the Demand Planner, this role will play a key part in the day to day running of the demand planning function, focusing on forecasting and trading categories as well as providing insight and analysis on product.

The Job

• Working on the MTO Sofas, Beds, Mattresses and Fabric within the business.
• Provide category analysis on a weekly, monthly and ad hoc basis and present in meetings.
• Trade categories continually to optimise sales and stocks, ensuring optimum availability while avoiding overstocks.
• Update and maintain all department linecards, forecasting and planning orders and signing off with Demand Planning Manager.
• Work alongside the Product Development team during the launch planning process, providing analysis to aid range planning, forecasting sales and planning orders.
• Proposing phaseouts, attending key MD meetings, carrying out system and online checks, communicating MDs to all functions, reporting and managing stocks and pricing during sale or running down.
• Carry out brochure checks and web launch checks.
• Responsibility for ad hoc inter-departmental requests/queries or supplying of information as necessary.
• Maintain category range plans, ensuring data is up to date and accurate, updating monthly and year end and setting up new launches.

We\'re looking for

• Highly analytical and extremely organised.
• Advanced Excel knowledge and a keen interest in systems.
• Great time management with the ability to prioritise, multi-task and work to deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills for interaction with internal functions.
• Able to quickly identify and solve issues as they arise as well as being proactive in improving current processes and systems wherever possible.
• Awareness of our customer and the market to aid in forecasting and analysing sales.

Looking for someone currently at Senior Assistant / Junior Merchandiser or Demand Planner level.

Some Of Our Benefits

• 25 days holiday, increasing by 1 day each year for 3 years, plus 8 days for bank holidays
• Enhanced family leave policy
• Staff and friends and family discount scheme
• Healthcare cash plan
• EAP programme
• Shopping discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Half a day for Christmas shopping
• Life Assurance - 4 times annual salary

What\'s it like working at Loaf?

We are a forward-thinking, friendly bunch committed to building a fabulous company with brilliant people. The customer is at the heart of everything we do and we\'re always striving for better, more efficient ways to deliver to the highest standard.

As a business, we\'re working really hard to be inclusive. No matter what identity or background, we want everyone to feel welcome in a place where we can all be ourselves.

We\'d love you to join us on our journey.