Supply and Demand Planner - Edinburgh Hybrid - 40-45K DoE
Edinburgh (Hybrid - in the office 2/3 days per week, working from home the rest)
About the Role
Lorien's client is looking for a hands-on Supply and Demand Planner to join their growing team. This is a true working Planner role. You'll own the forecasting and stock planning process from start to finish, turning sales trends, seasonality and marketing activity into accurate purchasing and production volumes across a wide product range.
You will be at the centre of day-to-day stock decisions, so you will need to be comfortable getting stuck into the detail, building your own routines and delivering under pressure.
What You Will Be Doing
- Building short term and long-range forecasts and demand plans, and tracking their accuracy
- Managing stock at SKU level, including reducing excess and short dated stock and keeping key lines available
- Reconciling internal stock records against supplier and logistics partner figures
- Calculating purchasing volumes and submitting them through a structured sales and operations planning process
- Agreeing fortnightly production plans with our third party logistics partner
- Producing weekly and month end stock reporting, including expiry and valuation
- Working with marketing, buying and operations colleagues to build upcoming activity into your plans
- Identifying ways to improve processes and automate reporting
What We Are Looking For
Strong, proven skills in all four of the following are essential:
- Excel: advanced level, used daily for forecasting, analysis and reporting
- Planning: genuine hands-on demand and supply forecasting, with a clear understanding of how to measure and improve accuracy
- SKU management: confident managing range, availability and replenishment at SKU level
- Stock control: practical hands-on stock level management, shelf life, waste and reconciliation
You will also have:
- Track record in a Planner level role within D2C/FMCG/food & drink/retail/similar fast moving environment
- An operational and analytical mindset, with examples of quantified results (for example, improved availability or reduced waste)
- The ability to thrive under pressure and structure your own weekly and monthly workload
- A personable, team focused approach
- Experience working with third party logistics providers and suppliers (a bonus rather than essential)
This is a hands-on role in a smaller team that is still building its processes, so it will suit someone who enjoys doing the work rather than simply managing or overseeing others.
Supply and Demand Planner - Edinburgh Hybrid - 40-45K DoE employer: Lorien
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