About the job ❓
Salary: £35,000 basic annual salary
Based: Huntingdon
Permanent: 37.5 hours a week Monday - Friday
Aliaxis: We make life flow 💧
What does that mean? If you think about it, fluids are needed in every place or process you can imagine - in every home, in every hospital, in every factory, in every farm, in every café… In fact, we rely on fluids everywhere and every day. That’s why Aliaxis are here to help create the safest, most effective, and reliable solutions for sustainable fluid management.
The Opportunity/Role 📢
Reporting to the Head of Demand Planning, the Demand Planner will play a pivotal role in effectively translating commercial information from a variety of sources into a high-accuracy Demand Plan. This shall ensure all supply chains and value streams are provided with a clearly defined and modelled consensus forecast that allows clear actions to be made.
Key Responsibilities will include:
Prepare unconstrained demand plans, working with Sales, Marketing (and customers) and provide input/modifications. Reach consensus using marketing, sales, financial, and supply chain views and agreement on market assumptions. Input on Product lifecycle changes, particularly new product launch plans
Cleanse and prepare demand history to generate a statistical forecast including the use of algorithms.
Translate sales plans and market insight into mid to long term planning data that can be fed into ERP and used in Supply Planning and the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process
Manage the demand planning part of the monthly IBP cycle, organizing the meetings, ensuring all inputs and outputs are prepared and shared
Ensure master data integrity/review and amend ERP demand planning parameters using APICS methodology
Develop Demand KPI’s and set clear and actionable plans to improve accuracy
Gap analysis providing insights for use in IBP with gap closing options and scenarios
You will proactively identify trends and clearly communicate these to the Head of Demand to ensure these are included within the IBP process and forward plans
Requirements:
Previous experience in a relevant functional discipline, ideally with supply chain management qualification (i.e. CPIM or CSCP).
Well organized, systematic, and rigorous approach to planning work and priorities. Excellent influencing and inter-personal skills
Data driven, with strong analytical and IT skills (Microsoft Office Suite – Excel & PowerPoint, ideally VBA and Power BI); strong understanding of ERP (Dynamics AX / SAP), MRP software, and Power BI; creation and refinement of forecasting models within planning software tools- ideally SO99+ or Imperia.
Benefits:
☀ 33 days holiday (inc bank holidays) with the option to purchase 5 more
💸 Life Assurance 6x annual salary
🏥 Critical illness cover
📝 Pension contribution up to 10%
🦷 Dental and healthcare cash plan
💻 Hybrid working policy - work from home two days a week!
👶 Enhanced parental leave
👚 Great discounts on local retailers and restaurants
🙌 Fantastic Health & Wellbeing package including an Employee Assistance Programme and access to My Strength
🚲 Cycle to work scheme
😍 Plus many more
Equal Opportunity Employer
Aliaxis is proud to be an equal opportunity employer who welcomes candidates and employees from all backgrounds. We are committed to building and investing in a culture of belonging, where all our employees feel empowered, can be their true selves and are able to bring their best ideas forward and contribute to the company’s “Growth with Purpose” strategy.
For us, equity and belonging starts at the application step: whether it's offering flexibility in scheduling interviews, or ensuring a supportive and inclusive environment, we strive to remove barriers and create equal opportunities for all applicants. Should you have specific needs, please do not hesitate to let us know and we will do our best to accommodate.
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