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Demand Planner

Job Title: Demand Planner
Contract Type: Contract
Location: Maidenhead, Berkshire
Industry:
Salary: Negotiable
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 3
REF: JA - DPL - 01_1497260493
Contact Name: John Anakwenze
Contact Email: john.anakwenze@projectpeople.com
Job Published: almost 7 years ago

Job Description

Excellent contract opportunity open for a Demand Planner with excellent communication and engagement skills and Supply and Demand background - forecasting, trading etc. to come on-board and work for a vibrant and reputable telecommunications company based in Maidenhead, Berkshire. This will be an initial 3 month contract role with opportunity to work Permanent. Competitive Salary and benefits on offer.

Key experience:

We need a highly analytical Demand Planner from a fast-paced Retail/FMCG/Telco/Fashion/Tech background (high value, short shelf-life).

Supply and Demand background - forecasting, trading etc.

Advanced Excel user

Oracle Retail or LIP (lifecycle Inventory Planning) would be a bonus but not essential

Excellent communication and engagement skills - you will be facing into Trading and tough stakeholders, so you will need to clearly articulate yourself and hold your own

Responsibilities:

This role reports to the Senior Manager Demand Planning and is part of the wider Channel Operations Team within the client's Customer Function.

This role will be the key Supply Chain interface into Trading process, working collaboratively with key internal and external partners to gain insight and create an accurate Demand Plan to support the company's Trading Plan.

As an integral member of the Supply Chain team you will be responsible for working across multiple departments and channels to understand all activity that impacts sales performance and use it to define our inbound Supply Plan

This role has no DRs, but will be the Senior Demand Planner dealing with the larger product launches and be the main interface into Trading.

Project People is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.