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Demand Planner II Hatfield II Hybrid 2 days in the office 

Ocado Group is an equal opportunities employer and as such makes every effort to ensure that all potential employees are treated fairly and equally, regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, age, or disability or union membership status.

About Us

Our teams are putting the world’s retailers online using the cloud, robotics, AI, and IoT. We provide services to partner clients globally via our innovative advanced robotics technology, known as the Ocado Smart Platform ("OSP"), this drives our highly automated, multi-million pound Customer Fulfilment Centres (CFCs). In our CFCs - together with the proprietary software applications - we operate a world-class online grocery business that automates the single pick of products, ready for your online delivery.

About the Role

The Demand Planner ensures that our organisation meets future demand to continue operating as effectively and efficiently as possible. Responsible for all forecasting activities associated with spares demand, the demand planner works cross-functionally to monitor and report essential changes to material demand based on spares usage, sales forecasts, business strategies, product change and project schedules. This involves the management of consumption data, reliability data, MRP demand data input, S&OP demand planning, supporting the management of priorities and resolution of planning exceptions and implementing solutions to improve demand forecast accuracy.

What you will be doing

• Responsible for the maintenance and  accuracy of the Spares Demand Plan within Fusion.
• Management of forecast demand, proposing and implementing solutions to improve demand forecast accuracy
• Review of NPI demand, supporting with roll out to new and existing sites
• Engaging with product specialist teams to validate and update assumptions on future demand.
• Working with Procurement and Central Spares to assess demand  risks and adjust demand accordingly. 
• Enforcing the demand change control process, updating demand plans as required  in compliance with proper authorizations
• Provide actionable data analysis to support business scenarios for demand plans using data-driven methods
• Analysing data and constructing reports to evaluate inventory holding at site and in Central warehouses.
• Analysing MRP runs / stock availability reports and supporting the Spares Supply Planning team in managing priorities, reviewing and resolving exceptions, including the development of resolution scenarios and impact assessment
• Review of product change, excess and obsolescence to minimise obsolete inventory.
• Owning the demand management processes and identifying opportunities for continuous process improvement
• Develop and maintain demand planning  tools, ensuring consistency of approach that enables global scaling
• Engaging and communicating efficiently with internal customers and other functions as necessary

About you 

Minimum: 

• 2+ years of supply chain experience, ideally within a demand planning role
• Demonstrated knowledge of materials requirement planning (MRP) and inventory management processes
• Knowledge of operational processes and experience with ERP systems
• Strong analytical skills, capable of handling large data sets, with a high level of attention to detail
• Self-motivated contributor with well-developed organisational skills
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment - able to multitask with proven follow-through and adherence to changing priorities and deadlines

• IT literate - Google Software Suite, MS Office applications  and excellent organisation skills

Preferred (in addition to minimum):

• Experience within an after sales service environment
• Experience of working with supply chain processes in an engineering environment.
• Experience in project environment 
• Experience with Oracle Fusion MRP 
• Experience with AppScript / VBA

What we offer you

Our employee benefits are designed for you, we care about people and we’ve ensured we have a wealth of benefits that focus on your well-being. We regularly review our benefits to ensure we are supporting our employees appropriately.

• 30 days ‘working from anywhere in the world’ policy 
• Wellbeing support through dedicated apps and an Employee Assistance Programme 
• 25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days after 5 years service (plus optional holiday purchase)
• Pension scheme (various options available including employer contribution matching up to 7%)
• Generous Private Medical Insurance (within the first month of joining!)
• Income Protection (can be up to 50% of salary for 3 years) and Life Assurance (3 x annual salary) 
• 22 weeks paid maternity/primary parent leave and 6 weeks paid paternity leave (once relevant service requirements complete) 
• Train Ticket loan (interest-free)
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Free shuttle bus to and from Hatfield Train Station to the Hatfield offices 
• Free shuttle bus to and from Welwyn Garden City Train Station to the Welwyn Garden City offices
• Opportunity to participate in Sharesave and Buy as You Earn share schemes
• 15% discount on Ocado.com and free delivery for all employees (within the first month of joining!

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