Supply Chain Graduate / Chilled Product Demand Planner

Salary: £36,000 per year

Our client is a global leader in food manufacturing selling products in over 100 countries with 25 factories worldwide. They are a great company to work for offering excellent career progression and job satisfaction. They are currently looking for a seeking a Chilled Product Demand Planner to be based in Hammersmith who will be responsible for all aspects of the chilled supply Chain, including developing relationship with customers, the factories and forecasting.

Chilled Product Demand Planner / Supply Chain main tasks and responsibilities:

This role requires someone to be able to understand the Supply Chain within a manufacturing environment. Demand is a large part of this role. You will also be in charge of deciding per product what quantities need to be delivered to the UK depots for two of our factories across Europe. Some other factories will manage directly their stock in the UK depot, you will be in charge to help them to understand the UK market and giving them the information that they need, and challenge them to achieve their KPI (service level / wastage).

Your role will include:

* Ensuring forecast accuracy, how to improve an achieve a better forecast accuracy for the business

* Putting forecast accuracy in line with the factories stock management and review the rule behind the security stock according to that particular problem

* Creating an action plan to resolve service and waste level issues

* Be in charge of analysis for the business, and reach conclusions so we can use to improve our process

* Communicate and help the factories in Europe, which are working in push flows, to understand the UK market and provide them with information about the activity events.

* Help to support and manage seasonal uplifts i.e. Easter, Christmas, production promotions

* Chilled deserts forecasting and stock control

* Liaising with warehouses, counterparts and retailers i.e. promotions, etc

Chilled Product Demand Planner / Supply Chain candidate profile

The successful candidate will idealy have experience of working in a similar role and therefore will be aware of the expectation to be professionally mature and be able to demonstrate the ability to influence, convince and motivate others within the business and within retailer partners. They will also consider a new graduate with a strong interest in supply chain and the food industry.

You need to be commercially aware with a very real understanding of the personal attributes that are required to succeed in this position to include, tenacity, working to challenging deadlines and in a changing environment with the ability to problem solve and bring thought out and creative solutions using limited resources.

You will need to be highly analytical with a simple and impassioned communication style.

Analytical skills are required for forecasting and studying raw data from systems and the retailer to foresee the tendencies or explain the problems.

A commercial thinker, able to communicate with customers and create good relationship is a key to success.

Able to have good common sense as Supply chain is mathematics applied to common sense, and choosing the right priorities in your daily tasks is essential.

Able to take initiative, and propose ways to work better

Chilled Product Demand Planner / Supply Chain required skills:

* Strong communication and influencing skills

* Excellent analytical thinking, attention to detail and interpretation of data

* Hard working, highly organized and efficient

* Strong influencing ability

* Team worker with good interpersonal skills

* Ability to deal with pressure

* Good project manager and ability to multi-task.

Chilled Product Demand Planner company package:

* Market Leader in their products and sector

* C £30,000

* Health care single cover

* Permanent Health Insurance

* Company pension contribution

* 25 days holiday + Bank holidays

* Company sick pay

If you would like to apply for this role, please send an up to date copy of your CV to Kate Evans as soon as possible quoting reference GP218

We look forward to hearing from you