Supply and Demand Planner Hybrid - DoE

Supply and Demand Planner - Edinburgh Hybrid - 40-45K DoE

Edinburgh (Hybrid - in the office 2/3 days per week, working from home the rest)

About the Role

Lorien's client is looking for a hands-on Supply and Demand Planner to join their growing team. This is a true working Planner role. You'll own the forecasting and stock planning process from start to finish, turning sales trends, seasonality and marketing activity into accurate purchasing and production volumes across a wide product range.

You will be at the centre of day-to-day stock decisions, so you will need to be comfortable getting stuck into the detail, building your own routines and delivering under pressure.

What You Will Be Doing

• Building short term and long-range forecasts and demand plans, and tracking their accuracy
• Managing stock at SKU level, including reducing excess and short dated stock and keeping key lines available
• Reconciling internal stock records against supplier and logistics partner figures
• Calculating purchasing volumes and submitting them through a structured sales and operations planning process
• Agreeing fortnightly production plans with our third party logistics partner
• Producing weekly and month end stock reporting, including expiry and valuation
• Working with marketing, buying and operations colleagues to build upcoming ac...