Demand Planner

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The Demand Planner role is to provide forecasting and proactive inventory planning improvement recommendations, with a key focus on accurate demand forecasting and a strong S&OP process; promote the Supply Chain department in a positive, professional, and proficient manner; strive to achieve and exceed personal, departmental and Company targets.

Key Responsibilities

• Forecast generation, analysing significant deviations, highlighting missing information and proposing solutions.
• Hold monthly S&OP reviews with key stakeholders, prepare the agenda and gather data for S&OP’s
• Management of CRM project requirements and identification of forecast changes due to project wins, losses, or changes
• Work closely with Business Development managers to collaborate with customers and enhance/improve our forecast accuracy & stock availability.
• Ensure timely communication of the forecast throughout the business, particularly before S&OP cycle begins.
• Proactively seek the information to improve the forecast, and chase through information required to complete the process.
• Forecast maintenance in MAPICS system and any other Sylvania system – e.g. item, seasonality, forecast warehouse, data etc.
• Undertake Root Cause analysis to understand and improve forecast accuracy.
• Work with the Master Planner to configure planning tool to suit warehouses stocking requirements.
• Management of logical warehouse and stock policy for Consumer dedicated logical warehouses.
• Creation and control of local Projects warehouse
• Work with EMEA Consumer teams to ensure Forecasts, Catalogue launches are EPOS data are actioned.
• Management of phase out programmes with retailers managed by EMEA consumer channels.
• Maintain stock availability in line with forecasted sales, checking future stock.
• Identify through analysis, opportunities to increase our OTIF KPI’s with customers.
• Manage all data and service levels to ensure customers & customer ordering processes are aligned to where forecasts place our finished product.
• Proactively seek the information to improve the forecast and chase through information required to complete the process.
• Undertake Root Cause analysis or PDCA’s to understand and improve forecast accuracy.
• Through regular review of projected stock levels, identify and communicate any potential out of stock issues, highlighting these and potential solutions to the Production or the Supply Planners.
• Identify causes and manage reduction of any excess stock created.
• Support other demand planning and central supply chain colleagues to streamline activities further.
• Manage all aspects of building & developing the supply chain model & plan for success within e-commerce.
• Manage enquiries from the Sales Support team and help finding alternative solutions to the enquiries.
• The job holder may be required to undertake such other reasonable duties as may be required of their post, and company from time to time
• The job holder will be asked to travel throughout Europe and UK and must hold the required travel documents.
• It is the duty of every employee while at work to take reasonable care for the Health, Safety and Environment of himself and of other persons, who may be affected by his/her acts or omissions at work, and as regards any duty or requirement imposed on his/her employer or any other person by or under any of the relevant statutory provisions

Person Specification and Background

Skills

• Creative, resourceful, and able to think independently
• Comfortable in using BI and Microsoft Office Tools e.g., Birst, Excel,
• ERP/MRP systems to manage data highly desirable
• Proven problem solving, planning, forecasting and analytical skills, high standard of numeracy

Education

• Educated to degree or equivalent level. Professional qualification e.g. CIPS also desirable but not mandatory

Experience

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a forecasting/ commercial analysis role
• Supply Chain background highly desirable
• Far East/long lead time Supply Chain experience is highly desirable

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Supply Chain and Strategy/Planning

• Industries

  Electric Lighting Equipment Manufacturing

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