Demand & Supply Planning Manager

We have a new opportunity within Supply Chain for a Demand & Supply Planning Manager to join our Demand & Supply Planning team. In this role, you’ll be responsible for planning network capacity and driving forecasting improvements. You’ll be working closely with technology to drive innovation in the demand and planning space to become world-class.

We interact with multiple parts of the business, including; trading, marketing, operations, technology and menu planning daily.

You’ll be a key part in ensuring our customers receive their orders on time and in full whilst optimising for costs, by using automation, data science, insights and analytics.

Come and join the Demand & Supply Planning team and be part of our journey to become industry leaders!

Core Responsibilities

• Chairing daily meetings to review demand and multisite capacity 

• Monitoring and reporting on relevant KPIs weekly.

• Conduct deep dives and RCAs to drive improvement in key metrics using for example SQL, BI tools

• Planning disruptive weeks (i.e bank holidays), coordinating with key stakeholders to reduce OTIF and food waste 

• Utilising data analytics and customer behaviour insights to facilitate accurate demand forecasts taking into account seasonality and trends

• Leading bi-monthly forecast forum, by collaborating with marketing, fulfilment, supply chain, logistics, and technology, to drive improvements in forecasting

• Supporting regular S&OP meetings with relevant stakeholders to review performance, discuss demand-supply gaps, and align on corrective actions

• Continuously seeking opportunities to optimise the S&OP process to optimise customer experience and costs

• Evolving existing demand and supply processes to support the delivery of propositions 

• Working closely with technology to evolve data products to support the long-term strategy of Gousto

• Driving innovation in the demand and supply planning space by for example anticipating disruptions using external data, measuring production more precisely

Who You Are 

• Experience in planning e.g. demand and supply / supply-chain / logistics

• Results-driven, constantly wanting to improve processes and outcomes

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to effectively communicate with stakeholders 

• Excellent attention to detail, flexibility and problem-solving

• Quick-thinker and learner and responds positively  to rapidly changing environments 

• Financial awareness

• A high level of computer literacy – in particular, Excel, Google sheets, doc, slides

• Ability to work under pressure in volatile periods and meet deadlines

• Leadership skills, keen to develop, educate and drive change from within

• Have excellent organisational skills, as a confident, collaborative and forward-thinking team player

• Ability to work by yourself and as part of a team

Benefits

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Equal Opportunities 

Here at Gousto, we are on a mission to become the UK's most loved way to eat dinner!

Whether it is creating diversity in our recipes or building new teams, we care about our people and the opportunities they have at Gousto. 

We are committed to equality of opportunity across our organisation. At all levels we promote equality, ensuring our people are consistently treated in a fair and equal manner. 

If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.

In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example - she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).

If you like what you’ve read about Gousto and want to find out more please click I’m interested below to apply!