Interim Senior Demand Planner

About

The successful individual will dive into the detail of customers’ orders and forecasts by SKU at the daily level, partnering with Customer Service, Commercial and Demand Planning stakeholders to execute commercial plans and ensure the operational forecast captures the effects of phasing, buy-ins and other exceptions.

This role sits at the heart of the wider forecasting function, partnering with stakeholders to maintain a trustworthy forecast to enable business decisions and contributing to weekly performance reviews to understand drivers of forecast accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining a detailed SKU-level forecast based on commercial plans in the operational window (up to 12 weeks) to drive accuracy and supply chain decisions, including for promotions and new product launches.
• Coordinate between the demand planners in the team to ensure they are all focusing in the right areas.
• To act as the main point of contact for the team’s stakeholders.
• Detailed analysis of customer orders versus forecast and ordering patterns to influence the daily-level forecast.
• Partnering with Commercial teams to understand customer performance and implications on the forecast, reviewing on a weekly basis to adapt the short-term forecast as needed.
• Partnering with Customer Service teams to bring in customer insight on the forecast.
• Feeding into the wider forecasting process, taking part in monthly forecast reviews with the Demand Planning and Commercial teams to dive into the detail of the forecast.

Skills

• Previous demand planning/forecasting experience within FMCG/Supply Chain.
• Previous team management is essential.
• Effective communication skills; ability to manage relationships across a variety of stakeholders.
• Analytical; comfortable manipulating and analysing data in systems and Excel.
• Calm and logical approach.
• Experience with demand planning systems.