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    Material Planner - Folkestone, Kent, United Kingdom - Recruitment Solutions (Folkestone) Ltd

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    A new instruction for an established key manufacturing client in the area for a Demand Planner that has become available on a long term temporary basis, in order to provide support within the Team, due to the high volume of projects currently underway.

    Very attractive salary - depending on experience

    4% company performance relate bonus

    9% matched pension contribution

    Health Cash Plan

    Life Assurance cover at 4 x base salary

    24 days holiday (+ bank holidays) plus you can buy or sell up to 3 days

    Monday to Thursday 9am - 5pm, Friday 9am - 3pm

    Attractive hybrid working: 50% on site and 50% working from home

    You will assist the Commercial Team to develop sales forecasts for all their products

    Assist in maintaining the Manugistics forecasting system with all the data necessary to support the entry and storage of forecasts, and to produce accurate KPI's

    To support on service, supply/inventory and capacity investment decisions through comprehensive analytics, to enable decision making on future business needs

    To share best practises within the demand planning team for re-application in other geographies

    Ideally 3 years + demand planning experience preferred

    Ideally BS/BSc in any field or related supply chain management, shipping, warehousing and inventory skills

    Previous experience working in a forecasting environment particularly with SAP & JDA in the past would be considered advantageous

    Well organised detail orientated able to handle multiple priorities and high volume of data in a fast-paced and team orientated environment, always adhering to deadlines

    The ability to analyse data and determine opportunities for continuous improvement

    Advanced excel skills


    Influence and hold key partners in brand, sales and finance, accountable for consistent forecast inputs and address any input gaps.

    To challenge sales forecast information provided by commercial teams, where significant changes have occurred

    To support decision making considering risks and opportunities by presenting alternative scenarios and assessment of risk and opportunities around the demand plan, and align with the commercial team on the consensus


    To support business understanding of volume forecasts and business performance through comprehensive analytics, including drivers of forecast changes and actual shipment variances to forecast.

    Must partner with key supply chain functions to analyse sales history and create trend analysis


    To integrate with supply chain teams proactively in managing trade-off between inventory levels and service levels, via the monthly S&OP processes.

    Provide relevant guidance for new product development SKU rationalisation, remnant inventory avoidance, and overall supply chain complexity optimisation

    To alert supply chain on an anticipated demand changes likely to be of an exceptional nature

    Responsible for root cause analysis and providing information to the wider business around insight and reasons the changes to the demand plan

    To continually improve forecast accuracy using best statistical data and regular communication with the commercial teams and their distributors


    Work with commercial teams to continuously improve the current demand planning process and information exchanges with distributors liaising with other functions ie.

    customer service and supply planning as required, to ensure processes are ready to accommodate the planned business growth


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