Demand & Supply Planner
Date: Apr 17, 2024
Location: Birmingham, GB
Company: Beiersdorf
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.
This is a 12 month Fixed Term Contract.
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 alert-based 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 / re-launches 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
- Systems - SAP APO Experience (Desirable)
- Advanced Excel Skills
A competitive salary, annual bonus (subject to conditions), hybrid working, 25 days holiday, defined contribution Pension, private medical, discounts on products, buy & sell holidays.
At Beiersdorf, we embrace Diversity and aim to provide equal opportunities to all of our applicants – regardless of e.g. gender, sexual identity, nationality, ethnicity, religion or ideology, disability or age.