Demand Planner at Corporate Staffing

Role & Responsibilities

• Sales Analysis vs Forecast, highlighting exceptions making suggestions.
• Ensure demand plans accurately reflect known marketing activities, product launch timings and promotional activities for the long-term horizon and stock availability.
• Provide input on potential sales for new products analysing similar existing products to identify the fit within the range. Participate in new product development projects and launches into market.
• Conduct regular forecast reviews, working in alignment with sales, product and supply planning. Propose and execute measures to improve the quality of the forecasts where appropriate.
• Joint ownership of S&OP meetings alongside Sales and Marketing – focus on forecast accuracy, supply chain risks and opportunities and inventory management.
• Create and provide trend analysis by Category/range/Colour/Product
• Analysing demand and inventory, ensuring they are always aligned
• Adopt our philosophy of continuous improvement, participate in process reviews and help to drive change within your area.

Qualifications and requirements

• At least three years’ experience in a demand planning and/or merchandising role, preferably within the e-commerce sector
• Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain or other relevant fields.
• Experience of forecasting within a formal demand management process, including Sales and Operations planning process, and utilising ERP and forecasting software.
• Be highly organised, focused and able to prioritise workload effectively when managing multiple tasks
• Highly numerate and analytical with strong Excel skills with an understanding of statistics and experience of statistical model forecasting
• Excellent communication skills both verbally and written
• Be eager to learn and develop and continuously improve own skills and/or capability
• Knowledge of MS Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
• High level of commercial acumen and awareness of current trends within furniture industry would be advantageous.