Demand Manager
Horsham
£55,000 - £65,000
Role Profile
- Are you an experienced Demand Manager within the Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) Industry?
- Do you want to work in a fast paced, high growth environment?
- Are you ready for a new challenge?
We have a fantastic opportunity for you to join one of the world's largest dairy companies as a Demand Manager. You will directly report to the Supply Chain Director. The successful candidate will have passion for first in class customer service and passionate to drive future success.
Responsibilities
- As a Demand Manager you will have responsibility for the end-to-end supply chain function, ensuring that the day to day requirements and longer term goals are achieved.
- You will create, monitor and improve the demand plan by working closely with the commercial teams in alignment with finance and supply chain.
- You will produce accurate forecasts which is in balance with supply.
- Understands how to use statistical forecasting to create a solid baseline forecast and maintains, reviews and cleans historical data
- Understand the impact of business dynamics and translate them into the demand plan: NPD, phase-in/out, promotions, events, seasonality, tenders, contracts, activations
- Secure demand plan constraining in case of supply restrictions and share the results with internal stakeholders (e.g. supply, sales and customer service)
Requirements
- 5 years Demand Planning experience (or relevant other experience)
- Knowledge of principles such as forecasting, S&OP, statistics
- Knowledge of sales and marketing in a Food environment
- Knowledge of ERP-systems (preferred SAP, APO DP/SNP, BW, MicroStrategy)
- Knowledge of E2E Supply Chain processes within FMCG
- Strong drive towards customer satisfaction and operational excellence
- Pro-active attitude and people person / team player
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