Local Demand Planner

What will your responsibilities be?

• Own and maintain the UKI demand plan across agreed planning horizons, ensuring forecasts are timely, accurate and supported by clear assumptions.
• Partner with Sales and Marketing to convert market, customer, tender and commercial insight into an aligned demand forecast.
• Extract and analyse the sales opportunities pipeline from Salesforce or a comparable CRM system, working with Sales and Marketing to translate opportunities, timing, probability and expected volumes into demand assumptions.
• Lead the monthly Demand Review, analysing actuals, orders, trends, forecast accuracy and bias, and agreeing corrective actions.
• Lead the UKI IBP cycle, coordinating cross-functional alignment, pre-reads, decision meetings and action follow-up.
• Reconcile the demand plan with Finance in volume and value, explaining gaps to budget and the impact of price, mix and changing assumptions.
• Prepare upside and downside scenarios, quantifying the customer, revenue, inventory and supply implications to support decisions.
• Focus discussions on material exceptions, risks and opportunities, translating complex data into clear recommendations and required decisions.
• Integrate product lifecycle, launch, substitution, discontinuation and equipment forecasts into the demand plan.
• Identify and support mitigation of shortages, allocation requirements, back orders, shelf-life, excess stock and obsolescence risks.
• Act as the UKI demand-planning process owner and IBP leader, championing the global transformation from S&OP to IBP through strong governance, data quality, deployment, training, adoption and continuous improvement.
• Represent UKI with regional and global Supply Chain teams, escalating local priorities and sharing best practice.
• Work collaboratively across the UKI Supply Chain team, particularly with Logistics and Customer Supply, to coordinate priorities, resolve operational issues and support strong customer service and end-to-end execution.

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