Demand Planner

Location: Okehampton, Devon

Hours: 37.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday (Hybrid)

Reporting Into: Supply Chain Manager

Salary: Dependent on Experience

Holiday: 25+ Bank Holidays

Role Summary:  

This role is a key part of Forthglade’s supply chain team and a pivotal link between the Forthglade supply and commercial functions. The purpose of the role is to provide a clear demand signal into supply chain to support factory scheduling, material purchasing and therefore optimisation of finished goods inventory. The role also supports planning and effective delivery of materials through national and international transit routes into our dispatch points ensuring excellence in service and continuity of supply.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

• Demand/Forecast System Management, Data collection, analysis & insight creation, challenge of commercial assumptions and collaborative action planning & delivery
• Exceptional demand event planning e.g. Promotional calendar, NPD launches, seasonal demand etc.
• Analysis & Reporting of medium- and long-term forecast changes with the potential to impact the business
• Translation of demand planning data into material planning data for Forthglade procurement & manufacturing and co-manufacturing.
• Management of supply chain relationship with D2C fulfilment provider and liaison with FG.com team ensuring material planning and performance is correct.
• Supply Chain support for international import/export and associated transport, and procedures, working with finance and technical.

Person Specification

This person is a confident and experienced supply chain professional with a robust character able to switch between data analysis and implementation of insight/outcome, establishing process and challenging commercial activities and assumptions. This person has the capacity to simultaneously manage a variety of activities, is able to keep multiple priorities simultaneously to ensure our service level to customer is kept in the right place and cost under control.

• +3yrs experience in: Demand Planning, Factory Scheduling, Material planning and/or allocation, Stock Control
• Strong understanding of demand planning process, procedures and measures.
• Logistics, storage & Transport Management, inc. 3rd party logistics relationships. International logistics in a food/meat environment desirable.
• +5yrs experience in FMCG Food Manufacturing, Warehousing, Supply Chain and Distribution environment.
• D2C fulfilment experience desirable.