Demand Planner - Apparel Brand

People Marketing is recruiting for an experienced Demand Planner to join an apparel brand in Nottingham.

As a Demand Planner, the successful applicant will be accountable for sales planning, ensuring the availability of goods while taking into account defined stock levels, coverage ranges, surplus goods, and marketing activities. This is a standalone role working closely with internal teams, including design, sales, marketing, finance and with your parent office in Austria and owned manufacturing in ASIA.

The opportunity offers 1-2 WFH days once the probationary period has been completed.

Demand Planner – The Role:

• Responsibility for sales planning for the brand across international markets
• Overall responsibility for procurement quantities based on the specifications of product management and general management
• Monitoring and updating the sales and procurement plan (planned quantities)
• Processing the ordering system (monitoring delivery dates, maintaining delivery date lists, controlling deliveries to the warehouse)
• Recognising sales fluctuations for basics, deriving scheduling decisions
• Preparing various statistics for sales and planning
• Monitoring, communicating and controlling over- and under-deliveries
• Coordinating various campaigns with sales (packaging, POS & sales campaigns)
• Creation of a seasonal costing sheet and price lists for international markets
• Managing freight, duty and transport costs
• Liaising with internal Teams in Nottingham & Head Office in Europe and factories in China.

Demand Planner – The Candidate:

• A minimum of 3 years of experience within a similar demand planning, inventory, supply chain or forecasting role.
• Experience within fashion, apparel or textiles would be desirable.
• Solid understanding of inventory management practices and procedures, experience of managing freight and logistics.
• Advanced Excel skills
• Highly analytical - able to analyse data and construct reports using Excel
• Organised and disciplined approach, and also flexible to change
• Proactive, with the ability to foresee problems and find solutions to mitigate business risk
• Confident spoken and written communication skills
• Fluent in English.
• Experience with Navision/Power BI, Brightpearl or other ERP/CRM.
• Additional language skills, e.g. German or Chinese, would be a plus.