Demand Planner
  • England,North West,Greater Manchester
  • Full Time, Permanent
  • Competitive salary
Job Description:
Demand Planner
Manchester – Office Based
Salary: Highly competitive




Our client, a global supplier of consumables now has an excellent opportunity for a Demand Planner to join their team in Trafford.


Joining a well-established demand planning team you will work closely with the product managers, commercial team, sales, finance and operational teams.


Externally the team work closely with manufacturers, shipping agents, customs agents and logistics service providers.


Duties & Responsibilities include:


Managing demand planning for our clients own manufacturing sites.
Managing demand planning for external suppliers.


Sales forecasting
Utilising sales reports, information from the commercial sales team and customers to calculate sales forecasts for individual products globally.
Utilising information from suppliers, sales forecasts and existing stock to determine future requirement from manufacturers
To place and manage orders with suppliers for finished goods.
Reporting on overstocks and discontinued clearance items


Supplier Management
Managing & developing relationships with existing suppliers
Onboarding new suppliers
To measure and review supplier performance and work with them to enable improvement.
To communicate and manage supplier disputes
Negotiating incoterms and payment terms with suppliers


Shipping
To interact with manufacturers, shipping / customs agents, logistics partners and warehouse operations to ensure receipt of stock in line with demand planning.
Managing fulfilment of direct containers from manufacturing, export and international deliveries


Inventory Analysis
To identify inventory issues, stock outs and over stocks taking action to minimise business impact


Data Management
To generate and provide reports for the executive team.


The successful candidate will need to have previous experience working in a Demand Planner role - preferably with experience working with Far East Supply Chain.


You will have excellent communication and organisations skills as well as the ability to multi-task. Candidates with advanced Excel skills will be of particular interest.


Apply online or for further information contact one of our specialist consultants quoting reference number: NJR16689
Job number 3729645

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