Demand Planner
London, UNITED KINGDOM Sales
Job description
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About the job
Danoners are steering us to a more sustainable future, helping to make the world healthier. As a certified B-Corp, we have our Danone Impact Journey to 2025. This will only be possible with each and every one of our leaders. Do you want to be one of them? For more information on our Danone Impact Journey click the link below:https://www.danone.com/about-danone/sustainable-value-creation/danone-impact-journey.html
Role Purpose:
It is the responsibility of the Demand Planner to lead the overall forecasting process for a given number of customers or channels in the short, mid and long term horizon. Working collaboratively with the commercial teams, the Demand Planner is responsible for delivering a high quality volume forecast feeding the monthly GPS process and to continuously improve performance of key metrics such as forecast accuracy, bias and service levels.
· Baseline forecast generation; run analyses on historical data and “clean” events, collect & agree baseline assumptions with input from commercial teams, run and evaluate statistical forecasting models
· Responsible for enriching base forecasts with ‘special events’ (eg; promotions, marketing activity, etc..) based on inputs from marketing, sales, customer collaboration and customers
· SPOC for commercial teams for volume demand generation
· Drive consistent volume assumption tracking across all NPI’s from Go Select to Go Launch
· Ensure strong collaboration with the IPRO and Supply Planning teams to plan first productions, providing relevant forecasting scenarios based on customer launch plans.
· Compile daily/weekly short term forecasts incorporating customer knowledge; promotional buy-in and exits, promotion performance vs forecast, range review and innovation activity
· Proactively communicate forecast changes to key SC partners and Supply Points
· Support the Senior Demand Planner and/or Demand Manager with inputs for cross functional team meetings.
· Contribute to improvements to ways of working within Demand Planning and wider Supply Chain team.
· Demand KPIs reporting
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About you
We would like you to demonstrate your following key skills:
· Excellent interpersonal, communication, and influencing skills, and senior stakeholder management
· Strong data analytics skills, able to produce, interpret and draw conclusions from data
· Understanding of S&OP (IBP) processes
· Strong agility, taking responsibility/making decisions in uncertain environments
· SAP/APO or IBP experience advantageous
Salary Bracket: £30-33k pa
About us
At Danone UK & Ireland, we are committed to delivering better health through better nutrition for millions of consumers and patients in our communities.
We have a range of flexible benefits and excellent rewards, click here to find out more: https://careers.danone.com/uki/en/Why-Danone/our-learning---rewards.html
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is deeply embedded in Danone's DNA, representing our core values and beliefs. We embrace diversity as a driving force for positive change, nurturing an inclusive workplace where every individual is valued.
The closing date for applications is Friday 17th May, you will therefore hear about your application after this date.