Forecast Demand Planner
- Employer
- b3 jobs
- Location
- Essex
- Salary
- £25,000 - £30,000
- Closing date
- 21 Oct 2021
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- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Function
- Planning, Supply Chain
- Business Sector
- Food Manufacturing
Job Details
Forecast Demand Planner
Job ref: 62861 | £25,000 - £30,000 | Essex
The company
We are seeking a talented individual to work for an innovative, high quality manufacturer which supplies to various retailers throughout the UK.
The job
The Forecast Demand Planner is a customer facing role where you will be a key link between customer demand and the production/planning teams. You will gather customer forecast and demand data, then carry out in depth analysis to determine trends and anomalies.
Core duties:
- Facilitate and manage demand planning/customer meetings to improve forecast knowledge.
- Execute statistical modelling software.
- Spotting trends and anomalies to amend the system to action changes
- Review resulting statistical forecast model and amend in line with expected demand.
- Review promotional plans and forecast with sales.
- Amend statistical anomalies in the data utilising event models.
- Achieve consensus for operational demand with sales and marketing.
- Liaise with Supply Planning regarding new launches and stock run outs.
- Liaise with Sales and NPD on profiles of new product launches.
Your experience
You will have experience in a forecasting, demand planning or related supply chain role within a multi-SKU, FMCG business (most preferably within food manufacturing). Experience in business-to-business relationships is also essential. In addition, you will have excellent analytical ability and working knowledge of analysing data to determine demand levels.
You will possess strong interpersonal and communication skills (both written & verbal), good proficiency in Excel and plus knowledge of forecasting/demand planning software such as Forecast Pro, NetSuite, Demand Smoothie, Netstock, Demand Solutions, SAP, Access, Oracle or Microsoft Dynamics.
More details
The Forecast Demand Planner job is based in Essex and is paying £25,000 - £30,000 according to experience.
How to apply
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What happens next?
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b3 jobs is a professional, friendly, and progressive food recruitment consultancy established in 2000 dedicated to the food manufacturing industry. We are a market leader for permanent jobs within food and drink manufacturing throughout the UK. All our consultants have considerable recruitment experience so you can be confident they have your best interests at heart when finding the perfect job for you.
Alternate job titles
Production Planner | Supply Chain Planner | Demand Planner | Forecast Planner | Food Manufacturing Demand Planning Jobs | Supply Planner | Essex | Home Counties / East Anglia
Company
Since 2000, b3 jobs has been helping to further 1000s of people’s careers within the food manufacturing industry, throughout the whole of the UK. As one of the leading specialist food manufacturing recruitment agencies, b3 jobs cover all disciplines both permanent and interim and from graduates to MD’s,
Our core values are always:
- to find the very best job for you - not us!
- to give you friendly, ethical, honest and expert recruitment services
- to advise and not pressurise, so that you can make the right decisions for you
We genuinely strive to provide you with what you want – a job that not only offers the salary you’re after, but also the career progression and job satisfaction that makes going to work all the more worthwhile. Enough trumpet blowing though – visit our website to read just some of our happy previous candidate testimonials - we are more than happy to let our reputation precede us!
For a full up to date list of our jobs, visit www.b3jobs.co.uk
Food Industry Graduates
If you are graduating soon and looking for your first job in food manufacturing, have a look at our Graduate Resource Hub on the b3 jobs website.
https://www.b3jobs.co.uk/graduates
Here you will find everything you need to get started on searching for a new position, from CV and cover letter writing tips, sample food industry job descriptions, informative and entertaining blog posts, useful links and even live graduate vacancies you can apply for.
- Website
- https://www.b3jobs.co.uk/
- Telephone
- 01435 866000
- Location
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Heffle Buildings
33a High Street
Heathfield
East Sussex
TN21 8HU
GB
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