22 Oct
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners
Uxbridge
Demand Planning Professional9 month secondment
Location: Uxbridge Structured career development
- Annual performance related pay bonus and pay reviews
- Share scheme
- Competitive pension contributions
- Range of flexible benefits and Corporate discounts, holiday buy/sell scheme
- Laptop
- Health care
- Excellent parental benefits
- Flexible working
Purpose of the role:Demand Planning is part of the GB Planning & Commercialisation Department which includes: Commercialisation, Demand Planning, Production Planning, Materials Planning, Allocation and Deployment.
The Demand Planning team are responsible for leading the Sales & Operations Planning process within the GB BU to ensure that imbalances between demand and supply are proactively identified and co-ordinated solutions are put in place in a timely manner. Demand Planning are responsible for managing the demand signal across a group of product portfolios and customers for the purposes of driving Supply Chain and supporting an accurate supply plan that maximises service to our customers at least cost.
The Demand Planning, Professional role is responsible for developing the sales forecast for a group of SKUs (product portfolio) and customers and ensuring its quality. The role is responsible for supporting the monthly S&OP; process and the quality of its inputs and outputs and drive actions to resolve potential supply issues. Key responsibilities:Reporting directly to the Senior Manager for Demand Planning the key responsibilities of the Professional, Demand Planning are: Executes the demand planning process and forecast activities for a product portfolio
Produces and maintains the full demand forecast in SAP IBP:Maintains a SKU forecast by customer
Understands EPOS and Stock Holding management
Collaborative planning with Commercial and Supply PlanningPlanning Promotions, maintaining a Promotional customer plan
Sets up, plans and review stock builds and customer specific activities
Perform Post implementation reviews on Key Promotions and activities
Sets up and maintains suitable statistical forecasting models, maintains actuals history as needed
Performs forecast enrichment to adjust the statistical forecast as needed
Develops or reviews the baseline forecast and agrees it with Key Account Managers (KAMs)Develops short and long term demand plan
Reviews and validates demand plan with Senior Manager Demand PlanningPerforms analysis to understand key drivers behind the gap between the demand planning system (SAP IBP)
and trade promotions planning system (Promax)Performs weekly demand control
Maintains master data for new products (NPD) and new variant codes (new projects)Collaborates, as and if required, with KAMs to gather business intelligence and to agree a baseline forecast
Supports the monthly S&OP; process and ensures the quality of its inputs and outputs
Supports resolution of supply chain issues with Supply Planning Skills & Essentials: Relevant Demand Planning experience ideally in an FMCG environment
Good analytical skills with proficiency in the use of Excel and PowerpointExperience in demand planning systems (SAP IBP DP)Good communication skills (including presentation skills) with the ability to facilitate effective meetings as required
Strong Interpersonal skills
Experience in customer facing roles
We are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) – a dedicated team of 42,000 people, serving customers in 31 countries, who work together to make, move and sell some of the world’s most loved drinks. We are a global business and one of the leading consumer goods companies in the world. We help our 2.1 million customers grow, and we are constantly investing in exciting new products, innovative technologies and fresh ideas.
This helps us to delight the 600 million people who enjoy our drinks every day. From gender, age and ethnicity to sexual orientation and different abilities, we welcome people from all walks of life and empower unique perspectives. We recognise we’ve got some way to go,
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It’s them who drive our future growth. To find out more about what it’s like to work at and our culture we would welcome you to speak to one of our employees on our live chat platform, just click here to speak to an insider. We recognise some people prefer not to participate in alcohol related sales, interactions, or promotions.
If that’s true for you – please raise this with your talent acquisition contact who will advise you on whether this role includes activities related to our alcohol portfolio.
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