Demand Planner

About us

We are one of the world’s leading manufacturers of collagen products for the food industry. We supply high quality edible films and coatings to over 1,000 customers in more than 100 countries, delivering our purpose of ‘Creating the Added Layer of Value’. Primarily used by customers in the production of a wide variety of sausage and meat products, our aspirations reach way beyond our current products and services, and appeal to our natural curiosity to improve what we do.

As a global organisation, we currently employ around 2,000 people spanning the Americas, UK/EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. We offer careers in research and development, science and food technology, manufacturing and supply chain operations, engineering, sales, and a range of other business support functions. We are always seeking talented people to join the amazing colleagues we have, to keep growing our business.

Our mission is to sustainably utilise technology and biomaterial science-based solutions, to delight our customers. We are a business committed to the pursuit of better. The constant pursuit of what’s next, what’s needed, what’s possible now, and in the future.

About the Role

As Demand Planner you will own S&OP and demand planning activities for a range of Sales Areas, delivering a monthly robust Demand Plan & Outlook (volume/ value) and support/ lead developments and improvements to the Demand Planning process as part of the IBP process.

Responsibilities

• Lead monthly demand planning process and deliver a robust Outlook in volume/ value: baseline and aggregate planning, analyse trends and provide integrated understanding: analytics inputs, assumptions, scenario planning, Opportunities & Vulnerabilities
• Facilitate a valid achievable Demand Plan with bias removed within the area on behalf of the Area Sales Director, and align with key stakeholders in sales, portfolio and supply
• Own relevant KPIs and performance improvement action plan and also be able to support or drive Continuous Improvement across the demand planning process i.e. system use, KPI management, tools development, cross-functional collaboration
• Fully maintain and drive best use of demand planning system and reporting tools. • Lead Area Demand Reviews (prepare/ analyse/ challenge/ deliver action plan) - analyse large sets of data with sense of urgency and high accuracy, draw conclusions and deliver succinct key messages to enable decision making
• Drive strong collaboration with varied stakeholders eg Sales, Commercial Finance, Market Development, Demand Control, Customer Service, Supply Chain
• Support developing and improving the Demand Planning process as part of the IBP roll out