European Demand Planner

Elevation Recruitment Group ,
Barnsley, South Yorkshire
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum

Overview

Elevation Procurement & Supply Chain are exclusively recruiting for an experienced European Demand Planner to work for a highly successful Wholesale organisation, with an international presence. My client is engaged in the manufacture and wholesale of products to trade and direct consumer. As a leading brand, at the forefront of their industry, they are always keen to find highly ambitious professionals to join their team. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing company as part of their highly skilled Supply Chain team, taking on a key role within the department, forecasting demand across specific categories and identifying opportunities to improve accuracy and process. Alongside this, you will be ensuring the correct model is in place by analysing output and maintaining key analytical tools across the database. My client has a thriving operation and encourages ambitious professionals to develop their career with internal support and training from the business. They are looking for an enthusiastic individual who is looking for a long term move and enjoys working within a fast-paced environment in order to manage their increasing demand, whilst also rationalising SKUs across the business. The role will be expected to work closely with other departments to gather necessary data and provide demand plans across the planning and purchasing teams. Therefore, ability to work cross functionally and communicate at all levels is necessary. Key duties and responsibilities will include: - Creating forecasts based on historical sales trends, promotional activity and current market and product information - Analysing order book, ensuring accuracy of demand plans - Working closely with commercial teams on NPD, change in sales, trends and activity - Ensuring accuracy of forecast, reporting on opportunities to improve process and performance - Utilising Excel to interrogate and manipulate data I would be keen to speak with candidates with the following skills and experiences: - Preferably Degree qualified - Experience across multi-site demand planning and forecasting would be beneficial - Minimum two years' experience within demand planning / sales analysis / forecasting - Good understanding of ERP and Excel - Ability to work within a fast-paced environment under tight deadlines - The motivation to continually identify areas of improvement and influence others Elevation Procurement & Supply Chain is a specialist division of Elevation Recruitment focusing on purchasing, sourcing, supply chain and management roles in Yorkshire and surrounding regions. If you match the specified criteria and are interested in discussing the position in more detail, we would love to hear from you.