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Demand Planner - UFF

United Kingdom
St Albans
A little bit about us   We are BEAR. We’re an ambitious young company determined to take a big bite out of bad snacking habits. Grrr. We make pure fruit snacks with no added nonsense that make being healthy a little bit easier and a whole lot tastier. Real Fruit, Real Flavour, Real Fun!   We started out making our tasty pure fruit yoyos, and now also make a whole host of other tasty pure fruit products too that go into several snacking categories: ‘paws’ for babies and toddlers, crunchy ‘Alphabites’ cereal with no refined sugar or salt. Ice lollies made from only two ingredients and a big ambition to take this brand beyond the above. We also make Urban Fruit, gently baked fruit to eat on ­the go, for the 25-45 year olds who run around leading busy lives but who find eating a juicy mango on the bus home a bit of a challenge.   Since we launched 14 years ago, we’ve grown quickly and we are currently sold in all the UK’s supermarkets and grrreat stores across the UK. Now we are taking BEAR around the world and have really ambitious plans for our international growth. We are a growing team of 38 people, and moved to our new offices in St Albans in 2021.     
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Job description

About the Role

Working as part of supply chain team, you will assume responsibility for all elements of customer demand planning, working across a variety of different accounts and all product ranges. You will also take the lead in developing our S&OP process, establishing collaborative forecasting processes and building relationships with key customers.

We are a highly ambitious team and as a result, you will be given great opportunities to develop in the role and take on more responsibility quickly. The successful candidate will play a fundamental role in the Supply Chain team working closely with the Head of Supply chain on the development of the S&OP process.

These would be some of your main responsibilities:

Demand Planning

  • Own the demand planning process for all customers- working with sales to ensure an accurate 12 month rolling forecast for all SKUs
  • Play a key role in the budgeting process alongside the sales & finance team to ensure we have a robust budget for the following year
  • Lead monthly forecasting meetings with account managers
  • Generate long term forecast (2 years) to guide future Supply Chain strategy 

Customer Collaboration

  • Develop collaborative forecasting processes with key customers to improve FA/BIAS targets
  • Ensure robust promotional forecasts are in place and are aligned to customer systems
  • Use insight into customer stock holdings & EPOS to assist with forecasting and to influence orders where possible

Processes and Systems

  • Work with the sales and supply chain teams to develop improved forecasting systems and processes
  • Develop tools to enhance understanding of sales patterns, promotional uplifts and growth in order to improve the forecasting process
  • Assist with development of a forecasting model that’s fit for the future of the business (e.g. Statistical forecasting)

Supply Chain Team and Continuous Improvement

  • Actively identify continuous improvement projects across the entire supply chain to support team objectives, including service and cost
  • Participate in weekly and monthly team meetings, defining appropriate KPIs and measures

Profile

About you

Here are the most important things we’re looking for from you:

  • Incredible attention to detail
  • Grrreat communication skills
  • Team Player with a can-do attitude
  • Confident presenting to all levels within the business
  • Readiness to work in a fast grrrowing entrepreneurial brand.
  • Strong interest in Supply Chain field and the wider processes
  • Embrace change
  • Confident analysing data
  • Highly competent user of Excel. Experience with SAP/IBP preferred but not essential
UFF team in our UK offices

"What makes it special to work at Lotus Bakeries is the great set of people you are privileged to work with on a daily basis. The shared sense of purpose, passion and team spirit is really evident from everyone. Wherever you are in the business there is a genuine willingness to see you succeed."

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Derren Plows

Sales Director

Offer

Salary

Flexible depending on individual experience.

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