Are you an experienced Demand Planner ready to shape the future of forecasting at one of the UK’s most exciting drinks businesses?
Freixenet Copestick are a major player in the UK’s drinks market and is proud to be the UK’s leading supplier of Sparkling Wines. With an extensive portfolio, this is an exciting opportunity to be an integral part of the next phase of growth as a Demand Planner.
This newly created role will see you take ownership of the end-to-end demand planning process, ensuring alignment across sales, marketing, and supply chain functions. You’ll play a key role in improving forecasting accuracy, providing greater control of inventory, and enhancing service levels across the business. This is also a fantastic opportunity to strengthen promotional planning and provide increased forecasting support for the sales team. If you’re ready to build something new, influence process and deliver impactful change, this is the role for you.
The Role
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Create and maintain the business demand plan using historical data, sales trends, marketing inputs and promotional calendars
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Improve forecasting accuracy to optimise inventory and elevate customer service levels
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Increase forecasting support for the sales team and enhance promotional planning strategies
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Collaborate across functions to deliver a robust monthly demand review and IBP cycle
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Accurately measure and target forecast accuracy and bias KPIs, implementing corrective action where needed
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Deliver regular reporting, insights, and scenario modelling to support strategic decision-making
What’s on Offer
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Competitive salary
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Hybrid working – 3 days a week in Newbury
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25 days holiday + your birthday off
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Annual bonus scheme
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Private healthcare & life assurance
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Pension (enhanced employer contribution)
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Income protection
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Staff discounts on wonderful wines
Skills & Experience
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2–3 years’ experience in a demand planning or supply chain analytics role, ideally within FMCG
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Excellent Excel skills, including pivot tables, data modelling and trend analysis
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Experience using ERP systems (SAP or similar) is highly desirable
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Commercially minded with strong analytical capability and attention to detail
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A confident and collaborative communicator, capable of influencing across departments
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Comfortable building processes from the ground up and working in a scaling environment
We are dedicated to creating an open and inclusive working environment, and this starts with our recruitment practices. We try to ensure that everybody who is interested in joining our team has equal opportunity and ability to start that journey with us. We intend to have flexible and accessible hiring practices and will make every attempt to adapt to your needs throughout. We welcome any requests for adjustments in our processes.
Niche Recruitment is proud to be managing the recruitment of this role exclusively on behalf of Freixenet Copestick. If this sounds like your next step, please apply now or contact Niche Recruitment to discuss further.