Demand & Supply Planner in Crawley

Business Area: Supply Chain

Location: Gatwick

Salary: Circa £42,000, depending on experience

Some of our other fantastic benefits include:

• Potential, discretionary annual bonus
• Generous pension scheme – up to 12% contribution from Nestlé
• 12 flexible days on top of 25-day holiday entitlement

Although this is a full-time opportunity, please speak to us about what flexibility means to you as we are always open to discuss individual’s flexible working.

We take pride in championing inclusion and diversity. We proudly signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter, are committed to Disability Confidence, and have been recognised as a Times Top 50 Employer for gender equality for three consecutive years. Additionally, we are a headline partner of Diversity and Inclusion in grocery.

We have a great opportunity for an individual to join the Nestlé Purina Supply Chain team as a Demand and Supply Planner. Do you have experience of a dynamic fast-paced supply chain environment? Do you have the ability to analyse and interpret data? Do you have the mind-set and initiative for continuous improvement? Then this could be the role you’re looking for.

At Nestlé PURINA Pet Care, we are passionately committed to helping pets enjoy happier, healthier and longer lives because we are pet owners too. As a world-leading company in pet care and nutrition, Nestlé PURINA has been helping pets live healthy, happy lives for over 85 years. We are proud to produce some of the UK’s best-loved brands including FELIX®, WINALOT®, GO-CAT®, BAKERS®, PRO PLAN® and BONIO®, trusted and bought by millions of pet owners. We believe that pets and people are better together which is why our employees can bring their dogs to work at our Crawley and Sudbury sites.

As one of the major actors in the UK and Ireland’s food industry, our supply chain really is at the heart of all operations at Nestlé from sourcing raw materials right through to delivering the end product to our customer. Working closely with these customers and our internal colleagues, we are able to manage one of the FMCG industry’s most complex and sophisticated value chains, putting the consumer at the heart of everything we do.

Your impact: As a Demand and Supply Planner you will own the end-to-end planning of a range of our Purina portfolio. You will create an accurate sales forecast working collaboratively with the generating demand team. You will liaise with the factory planning team to build a supply plan that delivers our commercial aspiration. The key objectives will be to maintain a strong level of availability of our products (on-shelf and online) for our customers and shoppers; and generate robust sales projections for the business. You will engage with a wide variety of stakeholders across all areas: Factory planning, Sales, Category, Marketing and Finance.

These are some of the areas you will be involved in delivering:

• Plan, develop & own the rolling 18-month APO demand plan by SKU, week and location. You will use statistical forecast as a demand pattern input before enhancing the plan with major customer events and category insights.
• Contribute to the MBP Process to ensure our APO demand plan enables us to deliver our brands, category and customer ambitions.
• Proactively identify stock projection outside of agreed policy (under-stock / over-stock) and work on mitigation plans with our factory planning teams.
• Communicate future service risk to our Commercial and Customer Facing Supply Chain teams.

Your ingredients for success: You’ll demonstrate great passion, initiative and tenacity to deliver against ambitious targets. This is an essential role for the business and requires cross-functional collaboration across a number of areas in the business. We’re looking for candidates with at least one experience across the end-to-end Supply Chain, preferably in Demand Planning, Product Supply or Customer Facing Supply Chain.

You will also have:

• Demonstrated analytical skills; the ability to synthesise multiple data sources to create insights and recommended actions.
• Good level of communication and influencing others.
• Excellent Excel skills and it would be advantageous to have experience working with and analysing using Power BI.
• Open to change; challenges current processes and generates innovative suggestions to improve current ways of working.

What you need to know: We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.

At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect and we believe that embracing diversity and fostering an inclusive environment allows everyone to reach their full potential and drives innovative thinking. We strongly encourage applications from individuals of all gender identities, ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities, parents, carers and members of the LGBT+ community. Please let us know if we can provide accommodations to ensure your full participation in the application process.