Regional Demand Planning Specialist in Fareham

Department: Supply Chain

Location: Fareham, UK, 5 days per week office based

Working Hours: 37.5 per week (Mon-Fri)

A brighter future awaits you. CooperVision is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of soft contact lenses with a presence in over 100 countries. Being part of CooperVision means helping improve the way people see each day. It’s more than making contact lenses, it’s about giving lens wearers freedom and confidence to move about their daily lives. We’re all about bright futures – for our people and those who wear our contact lenses.

Job summary – What to expect:

As the Regional Demand Planner, you’ll be responsible for managing the demand planning processes within the EMEA region. You’ll work collaboratively with the regional/product Commercial organization to understand the market dynamics, participation strategies and resulting demand forecast. Your responsibilities include:

• Ownership of regional product demand forecasts in the planning system which drives the supply planning functions.
• Working in collaboration with the Marketing teams to understand demand drivers.
• Highlighting demand trends, documenting key assumptions as well as risks and opportunities.
• Participating with the Commercial / Marketing team in development of the product participation strategies and resulting demand plan.
• Supporting demand planning for new product introduction through collaboration with cross-functional teams eg new product introduction teams, commercial teams, supply planning teams.
• Working with the Marketing teams to understand the regional forecasts and ensuring consistency in the demand forecasts.
• Ensuring that the assumptions underlying the forecasts are understood and documented.
• Evaluating key performance indicators for demand actuals vs. plan, and contributing to projects to improve regional forecast accuracy and bias.
• Identifying improvement opportunities across the Global Supply Chain and Commercial forecast generation process.

About you:

We are looking for someone with:

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work across multiple groups and countries, and broad functional areas to obtain buy-in and support, communicate and provide leadership for implementing capabilities.
• Ability to adapt to a fast and dynamic environment.
• Project management skills.
• Highly self-motivated, self-directed, and attentive to detail.
• Additional language skills appropriate to the EMEA region would be a benefit, but not essential.

Experience & Education:

Required:

• Minimum 3 years of experience within a supply chain environment.
• Previous experience working in a global organization and with geographically dispersed colleagues and stakeholders.
• Understanding of the end-to-end supply chain.
• Basic understanding of statistical based demand forecasting.
• Basic project management skills.
• Experience in collaborating with stakeholders, for instance supply chain, manufacturing, packaging and distribution operations, and commercial/sales functions.

Preferred:

• Experience in a regulated industry, medical device or similar industry.
• Advanced Excel skills.

What we offer:

You’ll receive competitive compensation and a fantastic benefits package including pension scheme, healthcare cover, life assurance, access to our Wellness Platform to support you in mental health and wellbeing, a discounted contact lens scheme and much more! We are committed to our employees’ personal and professional development and offer extensive training to support your career growth and help every individual to reach their full potential. To help us achieve our goals, we’ll give you everything you need to help you achieve yours. We also provide access to LinkedIn Learning to help you develop in your career and grow with CooperVision.

What you can expect:

As a CooperVision employee, you’ll be welcomed into a diverse and progressive global business. We appreciate how important fostering an inclusive culture is and how different perspectives add value and contribute to our success. If you like what you see, take the first step towards your Brighter Future and apply today! All suitably qualified applicants will receive equal consideration and opportunities from CooperVision.