Demand Planning Implementation Manager
- Employer
- Vertical Advantage
- Location
- Surrey
- Salary
- £50000 - £70000 per annum + benefits
- Closing date
- 2 Aug 2018
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- Business Sector
- Non Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Supply Chain & Logistics
Job Details
Are you a professional with strong Demand Planning expertise? Are you looking for a role that's a little different to the rest? Are you looking for autonomy, responsibility and the ability to influence senior stake holders? Well this just may well be the role for you!
My client a global medical business is looking for a Demand Planning Implementation Manager - this is a Greenfield project where you'll be working with the global teams to centralise the demand planning function and work on implementing best practise. This is a standalone role with some travel involved.
You responsibilities will include:
- Compile and centralise a regional demand plan through analysis and statistical modelling
- Work cross functionally with the global commercial teams to ensure the most efficient and accurate demand plan is forecasted
- Provide training and support/create documentation where needed around the new demand planning processes to ensure a consistent approach
- Create and present a consolidated demand plan for each vendor and all finished products (25,000 - 30,000 SKU's)
- Ensure ongoing process improvement in demand planning processes
- Shape the future S&OP process
- Work on a system implementation/configuration from a demand planning perspective
- Manage and deliver projects to time and budget
The ideal candidate will have the following:
- Graduate calibre or equivalent working experience
- Proved demand planning experience from a complex manufacturing or FMCG environment
- Strong analytical, planning and organisation ability
- Project management experience
- Good negotiation and influencing skills
- Strong communicator
- System implementation experience highly advantageous
- Dynamic and agile
Company
Vertical Advantage have a rich history in sourcing within the FMCG and Grocery marketplace. We specialise in placing candidates in the mid to senior end of the market within Category Management, National Accounts, Marketing, Supply Chain and Logistics.
We guarantee comprehensive support and expert guidance through professional consultants with proven track records from industry. At Vertical Advantage we are proud of how accomplished our people are and how they have built exceptional networks over their time in the recruitment sector. It is these networks that will give you confidence to work with us.
Our first instinct is to search and this is ingrained in the fabric of our work. We leave no stone unturned to deliver exceptional people for exceptional businesses. Our way of operating suits today's working lifestyle where people are short on time and need to make hiring decisions based on seeing low numbers of high calibre candidates.
Vertical Advantage is a lean, flexible consultancy that works with our clients and candidates to find the right solutions for them.
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