Associate Demand Planner

JOB TITLE: Associate Demand Planner SALARY: £35,000 LOCATION: Kings Langley- Hybrid Working Benefits: 6% Pension Contribution Life Insurance Employee Assistance Program 25 days holiday increasing to 30 days over 5 years of service staff discount BUPA health care is optional. Our client is a multi-award-winning brand in the consumer electronics accessories industry, specializing in mobile, IT peripheral, and wireless technology. With a strong global presence and multiple offices worldwide, they employ thousands of individuals. We are now looking for an Associate Demand Planner to conduct a targeted level of forecast accuracy, enabling accuracy of outlooking, whilst owning inventory against a targeted budget plan and performing to hit all planning KPIs. Closely working with Sales and Product Management to drive a high level of customer service. Job Specification: As an Associate Demand Planner your day to day role will be to build and maintain excellent relations with both internal and external stakeholders and customers, while driving collaboration and maintaining high business performance. In addition: As Associate Demand Planner you will also be responsible for: Providing sales and country-based SKU level forecast to drive the business planning to ensure delivery of sales plans, customer services, cost and inventory, utilizing all available intelligence from the marketplace to analyze and recommend actions where forecast and inventories are out of balance Participating fully in the EMEA S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning) process owning the forecasted demand for your responsible markets while identifying opportunities to improve KPIs Work collaboratively with key stakeholders to define NPI launches and adjust forecasts to align to the agreed plans Working closely with the Sales leads, managing the demand signals of NPI launches and transitions to ensure the demand and cannibalization risks are being proactively communicated to key stakeholders for collaborative resolution About you: Associate Demand Planner We are looking for someone who is in the early stages of their demand planning career but looking for a step up. You’ll have experience in demand and supply planning tools. Be highly effective in problem solving and have strong analytical skills. We are looking for someone with excellent communication skills, as you’ll be dealing with a variety of stakeholders and members of your team. If you possess an additional language skill to English this would be an advantage as the team deals with the whole of EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa)