Forecast and Demand Manager in Kegworth

We’re offering a rare opportunity to step into a high-impact role at Refresco, created thanks to an internal promotion—a real sign of the progression and development we’re proud to offer. This is a chance to shape the Demand function at the heart of the UK business, lead a talented team, and influence decisions that directly drive customer service, operational performance, and commercial outcomes. You’ll join a fast-moving, supportive environment where your ideas matter, your expertise is valued, and your leadership will make a visible difference across the organisation.

About the Role:

This role leads the Demand Management team to turn a collaborative sales forecast into a clear, accurate demand plan that drives capacity and inventory decisions. It owns the forecasting process end-to-end, ensuring accuracy, minimising bias, and capturing all seasonal, promotional, and customer-driven requirements. It works closely with Planning and Customer Relationship teams to flag capacity risks, build mitigation plans, and feed reliable insight into S&OP and financial forecasting, while providing trend and forecast analysis to the wider business.

As the Forecast and Demand Manager here are your key areas of focus:

• Execute all elements of the forecasting and demand planning process to meet service levels and working-capital targets.
• Continuously improve processes to enhance customer experience and deliver budgeted costs.
• Lead the Demand Stream within S&OP, ensuring accurate data and a robust demand plan.
• Monitor and improve forecast accuracy, bias, and KPI performance.
• Support system selection and implementation while sharing best-practice across supply chain operations.
• Work with supply chain, Relationship, and Planning teams to balance demand and supply, resolve issues, and maintain service levels at minimal cost.
• Build strong internal and external relationships to understand demand drivers and create competitive advantage.

We’re looking for someone who brings an empowering leadership style, a clear vision, and a genuine commitment to helping their team thrive. You’ll be a strong team player as well as a capable leader, with a CIPS qualification, a relevant degree, or at least two years’ experience in a supply chain role. Experience in supply chain knowledge is essential, ideally gained within a fast-moving consumer goods environment.

Ultimately, we encourage everyone to role model our core values of agility, responsibility, passion, excellence, and entrepreneurship as we believe these are what has made Refresco successful so far.

If you fit this profile and are excited by this opportunity, we would be delighted to hear from you!

About Refresco:

Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global, National and Emerging brands, and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia. Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass. Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market demand.

Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and has more than 13,500 employees. Our drinks on every table. That’s the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we’re only just getting started.

We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers. Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards. Our products get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high-profile customers.

Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.