Demand & Supply Planner - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Beiersdorf UK Ltd.

Beiersdorf UK Ltd.

Verified Company

Birmingham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

At Beiersdorf UK, we invest time into developing our own leading skin care brands - Nivea, Eucerin, and Elastoplast - to ensure we continue to provide our customers with the products they need to live a happier, fuller life.

As Demand and Supply Chain Planner you will manage planning of products from forecasting to supply into warehouse to meet customer demand in a demand led supply chain.

To calculate an accurate volume and value forecast based on sales history and market intelligence to be used for short / medium term business planning (via S&OP), as well as for optimising production planning to support service level / stock coverage targets.

Management of inventories using alert-based planning and safety stock to deliver a high level of product availability. Supply Chain owner for brand to ensure effective and efficient supply.

Your Tasks:

Demand Planning

To calculate and review an unbiased and accurate volume and value forecast using appropriate forecasting methods and market intelligence / historical information for each brand / product.

S&OP

Lead monthly meetings with NAMs and Logistics to challenge and agree consensus forecast to feed into S&OP meetings. To critically review personal forecasting performance via various KPI's on a brand & sku level.
Supply Planning
To implement alertbased planning to highlight and communicate potential supply problems in the short / medium term. To work closely with suppliers to ensure stock is received in line with requirements to maximize availability & service
To plan launches / relaunches ensuring service is maximized while leftovers are kept to a minimum.
To calculate optimal safety stocks using a mixture of statistical / manual approaches in order to maximise product availability and minimize stock holding.
Supply Chain owner for brand to collaborate internally to ensure products are sourced and supplied in most effective and efficient way; generate ideas and project manage value engineering initiatives for brand to reduce costs.

Your Profile:

Analytical, results orientated with good influencing and relationship building skills
Experience in a similar role
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with a strong focus on team and collaborative ways of working

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