Demand Planner | Supply Planner

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Forecast demand from historical sales, market trends, customer requirements, and business plans; analyze seasonality, promotions, and changing demand.
• Coordinate with commercial teams on campaigns, promotions, launches, and demand changes; translate forecasts into supply and replenishment plans.
• Monitor inventory, safety stock, reorder points, lead times, and targets; identify shortages, excess, slow-moving, and obsolete stock risks.
• Plan supply around forecasts, capacity, supplier lead times, and inventory objectives; coordinate purchase orders, replenishment, production, and inbound deliveries.
• Work with suppliers on availability and delivery constraints; monitor performance and escalate disruptions or delays.
• Balance demand, inventory investment, production capacity, and supply constraints; conduct reviews and recommend actions.
• Maintain planning data and schedules in ERP or planning systems; track forecast accuracy, inventory turnover, service levels, fill rates, and availability.
• Investigate forecast variances and adjust plans; support product launches, phase-outs, promotions, and seasonal demand.
• Coordinate with warehouse and logistics, support S&OP and IBP, and prepare management reports and contingency plans.
• Improve forecasting, replenishment, planning processes, inventory efficiency, working capital, and supply-chain performance.

Requirements

• Diploma or bachelor's degree in supply chain management, logistics, operations management, business, industrial engineering, or a related field.
• Experience in demand planning, supply planning, inventory planning, production planning, procurement, or supply chain management.
• Strong forecasting, inventory, replenishment, and supply planning knowledge; analytical and numerical ability with attention to detail.
• Knowledge of inventory optimization, safety stock, reorder points, lead-time management, forecasting methods, and statistical planning.
• Familiarity with S&OP, IBP, MRP, and supply-chain planning processes.
• Proficiency in Excel, including pivot tables, formulas, data analysis, and forecasting functions.
• Experience with ERP, MRP, or supply-chain planning systems such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, or similar.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, problem solving, organization, and time management; able to manage multiple priorities.
• Commercial awareness and understanding of supply-chain cost drivers; able to work in a fast-changing environment.
• APICS, CSCP, CPIM, or other supply-chain certifications are an advantage.
• Experience in FMCG, manufacturing, retail, distribution, or another inventory-driven industry is a plus.

What the employer offers

• Competitive salary and comprehensive employee benefits; salary cadence is not specified.
• Professional training, learning, and certification opportunities in planning and inventory management.
• Exposure to end-to-end supply-chain operations, advanced systems, and cross-functional teams.
• Opportunities to participate in S&OP, business planning, and improvement projects, with career development and performance recognition.