Supply & Demand Planner

Beer
52 | B Corp is the home of the UK’s No.1 craft beer club, and now a family of four discovery clubs spanning beer, wine, whisky and coffee. Each month, members receive hand-selected, small-batch products chosen by experts, delivered to their door alongside stories that bring each discovery to life, including Ferment, the UK’s No.1 craft beer magazine.

Our mission is to build the world’s leading community of curious drinkers, connecting people through discovery and a shared love of quality, independent producers. With over 9 million member reviews and counting, our community is at the heart of everything we do.

As a certified B Corp, carbon neutral business and accredited Living Wage employer, we’re committed to using business as a force for good. Based in Edinburgh, our team works in a fast-growing, collaborative environment where curiosity, creativity and a passion for great drinks and community-building are truly valued.

As our Supply & Demand Planner, you’ll play a pivotal role in getting the right products to our members at the right time. You’ll own our robust short and long-range forecasts and demand plans, bringing together seasonal patterns, customer trends and upcoming marketing activity to determine optimal purchasing volumes across all of our product types.

You’ll build the long-term view of our monthly themes, finding smart ways to put excess legacy kits and theme stock to good use where appropriate. From there, you’ll break that plan down into full theme forecasts and fortnightly production plans, agreed with our 3PL partner.

You’ll also be the go-to person for stock reporting, reconciling our internal view of stock against supplier stock levels, taking into account both regular reporting and every stock movement, so the business always has an accurate picture.

Great communication is key to success in this role. You’ll work closely with your own team and the wider business, bringing data to life through clear, visual reporting that gives everyone complete transparency.

Working alongside our Supply Chain Director and Operations Manager, you’ll have the opportunity to shape how we plan, driving improvements in forecasting accuracy and building processes that reduce excess stock and risk.

• Taking account of current and future stock, create and implement short, full-theme and long-range forecasts and demand plans.
• Collaborate with the marketing team to understand their plans and objectives and reflect these in forecasting.
• Partner with the Head Buyers to drive commercial opportunities through the strategic timing of themes, and to ensure consistent stock availability for retail opportunities and permanent listings with key partners .
• Calculate and submit purchasing volumes for subscription and shop through a defined S&OP process, using available technology to improve accuracy, and work with the Supply Chain Director to ensure a smooth sign-off.
• Report on overall stock levels, weekly progress on reducing excess and short-dated stock, and upcoming risks and priorities.
• Work with marketing, the Operations Manager and the Supply Chain Director to clear short-dated stock, including promotional packs and shop activity, so that every short-dated item has a plan and no expired product is used.
• Work with our 3PL to plan and direct production, minimising delays to order despatch.
• Work with the wider team to plan brew and drawdown schedules for Welcome Box beer and wine, and to ensure consistent availability of non-core items such as packaging, magazines and snacks.
• Identify opportunities to sell surplus stock through other Beer
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• Work with the Supply Chain Director and Operations Manager to deliver peak forecasts and forward…