Demand Planner - Trumpington, United Kingdom - Abcam Plc
Description
Company Description
For over 20 years, Abcam has been providing tools the scientific community needs to enable faster breakthroughs in critical areas like cancer, neurological disorders, infectious diseases, and metabolic disorders.
We need your own unique perspective as well as this of our people to make an always greater impact on the world.
This community needs people like you:
dedicated, agile and above all audacious so we can truly bring progress forward.
Job Description:
About this role
As part of our rapid growth Abcam are looking for a Demand Planner develop our demand function within Supply Chain.
It's an exciting opportunity for an ambitious individual to develop and progress as we are building our Demand Planning team and global IBP process and systems.
You will be responsible for and lead the Demand Planning and Review process for a set portfolio/region as part of the global IBP process and the quality of its inputs and outputs and drive actions to resolve potential risks.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Key point of contact with various Sales and Marketing teams to gather the markets intelligence and support the execution of sales plans and budgets for existing and new products.
- Work closely with the Product Managers, ensuring planned product launches are included in the forecasting process, scenario planning is completed as required, and launch volume orders are created at the agreed quantities.
- Influence, collaborate and build a sustaining network of cross functional stakeholders and key partners in marketing, sales/commercial, product management and finance and address forecast gaps in order to generate a consensus demand plan.
- Responsible for ensuring statistical forecasts are produced each month during the monthly planning cycle and all market intelligence is gathered and reflected. This may either be creating the forecasts or reviewing forecasts created by others and challenging their robustness.
- Determine and communicate forecast confidence, including risks and opportunities, to relevant functional groups.
- Support the needs of the customers and their markets to enable relevant communication to the Supply Chain Planner and key stakeholders.
- Work with various cross functional teams on projects such as new product launches, line extensions, product discontinuations, etc. Demonstrate sound business decisionmaking, aligned with company goals.
- Driving continuous improvement activity within the demand management function and across the Supply Chain team more generally, deploying recognized problem resolution and process improvement methodologies as appropriate
Qualifications:
About you:
You will have demonstrable experience in a demand planning role in a multichannel environment, influencing and collaborating with Sales, Marketing and product management functions.
You will have excellent communication and influencing skills to present findings and recommendations, with proven ability building effective relationships across all levels and functions in an organization.
You will be a self-starter with natural attention to detail, and experience meeting tight deadlines, prioritizing tasks and multi-tasking to achieve results.
Additional Information
We know that when it comes to benefits, no one size fits all.
Flexibility and choice matter which is why, in addition to market competitive salaries, we offer you a flexible benefits package which is tailored to your unique needs and support your financial, physical and emotional wellbeing.
This includes our award-winning share scheme, 18 weeks fully paid maternity leave, 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave as well as highly flexible working and much more.
Besides, your development will be integral to your experience here. You will grow alongside other talented minds, in ways you may often find unexpected.LI-CM1
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