Demand Planner

Purpose

To ensure that replenishment tasks happen in a timely manner and that the right stock is in the right place at the right time.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead continuity stock management ensuring that we achieve maximum efficiency with optimum availability by channel
• To optimise the distribution of existing stock across channels, maximising availability, ensuring display requirements are upheld and precisely directing scarce inventory to drive best sales and margin opportunities – always working within the bounds of store, DC and transport capacities
• Improve our stock and process efficiency through a data-driven and automated repurchasing approach
• Collaborate closely with the DC, Logistics Team and Retail to help drive storage, pick, transport and store receiving efficiencies through a more targeted approach to the replenishment process
• Management of stock buffers to ensure optimum availability and minimum UTF
• Work to OTB, availability and cover targets in line with company objectives and continuously seek opportunities for improvement
• Respond to reactive trading decisions to ensure that key stock is in the right place at the right time
• Produce demand forecasts for key partners to help plan inventory during peak trading periods
• Management of reporting of replenishment and availability ensuring transparent communication with all teams, surfacing issues, key out of stocks and opportunities
• Partner with IT and Logistics to design systematic processes to automate and optimise the flow of continuity inventory through the supply chain
• Developing and maintaining strong cross-functional relationships with Buying, Brand, IT, Logistics, Web, Marketing, Retail and Finance

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Highly analytical with an advanced understanding of automation and analytics
• Data driven leader
• Customer focused
• Confident, clear communicator
• Organised and works well under pressure
• Advanced excel skills, experienced in ERP and replenishment systems and BI reporting capabilities
• Ability to successfully lead teams through business change
• Experience in new system development and execution (problem definition, testing, training and implementation)
• Objective thinker and effective problem solver
• Ability to work collaboratively with other functions across the business

Minimum Qualifications

An established leader, ideally with merchandising experience at a senior level