Demand Planning Manager
Clapham
£65,000 - £75,000 (DOE)

Role Profile

Our client is a growing omni-channel business, looking to recruit an experienced Demand Planning Manager. Reporting into the Operations Director, you'll oversee a small yet effective team and be responsible for ensuring optimised on-shelf availability whilst managing stockholding to maximise revenue & efficiency. The role is Monday to Friday, full-time and office based with the option to work from home 1 day per week after passing probation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coach the team to ensure optimal service is provided to customers.
• Prioritise on-shelf availability for grocery customers, whilst considering current stockholding, capacities and forecasts.
• Support the team to provide accurate forecasts and provider recommendations for reorders, advising techniques, tools and best practices.
• Embed processes within the function to ensure all steps are completed in order to invoice.
• Lead volume monthly sales recap meetings, presenting and reviewing relevant data.
• Manage strategic, key relationships with senior contacts in customer merchandising teams and ensure excellent service is delivered.
• Collaborate with other business functions including supply chain, procurement and logistics to report on wider business KPI's and address any issues.
• Use data to provide insights to both sales and product development teams to inform decision making and suggests recommendations.

Key Skills & Experience

• Proven experience leading teams in a Demand Planning function, ideally within a FMCG environment.
• Experience of UK grocery customers would be advantageous.
• Hands-on mindset, with willingness to get stuck in with the team and help embed processes.
• Advanced Excel skills including VLOOKUP and Pivot Tables.
• Experience of moving stock on a global scale across multiple locations would be desirable.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with ability to influence at all levels.

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