Company Overview
At Diageo, we strive to ensure that no talent goes unnoticed, even if they are exploring their options casually. By engaging with our talent community, we can connect you with opportunities that resonate without commitment to diversity, inclusion, and excellence, empowering you to pursue your career aspirations in alignment with our values.
Join Our Supply Team
As the home of iconic brands such as Baileys, Guinness, Smirnoff, and Johnnie Walker, at Diageo we source, produce and deliver 6.5 billion litres of world-leading products every year across 180 markets globally. Because of this huge undertaking, we rely on highly advanced systems as well as the very best talent to make sure our businesses continue to run smoothly.
To give you some idea of the scale of our operation, over half of our 30,000 employees work in our supply chains. We have teams in over 100 sites across more than 30 countries, but what matters is that wherever you work, you’re part of a diverse, inclusive team where there are opportunities for everyone. Whether you work in planning, logistics, technical teams or manufacturing, you’ll be part of an innovative, dynamic organisation. We set ourselves the highest standards, and our practices have earned us international recognition. And it’s people with energy, dedication and problem-solving skills who’ll help us get even better. In return, we offer a world of opportunities for you to explore, to shape and progress your career.
Purpose of the Role
- Diageo’s performance ambition is to become the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products company in the world.
- GB is Diageo’s second largest market and represents 45% of the Europe region performance outcome.
- As a Demand Planner within GB, your scope is to generate, analyse and publish the 1 – 24 month market forecast for the full market portfolio. The portfolio will be divided across the Demand Planning teams.
Accountabilities And Responsibilities
- Undertake weekly data integrity check of all demand planning master data fields within APO to ensure all SKU forecasts can be passed over to Supply Planning without error.
- Monthly review and selection of ‘best fit’ statistical forecast models for your portfolio, ensuring they reflect market trends & product category growth assumptions.
- Complete all relevant historical cleansing activities to enhance statistical modelling and remove irregular activity from forecast publication.
- Participate in the relevant GB S&OP Cycle meetings by providing forecast performance insight to help shape and align monthly forecast changes.
- Collaborate with Customer Operation Lead’s for key product/customer combinations to evaluate SIT & EPOS data to make any necessary forecast adjustments.
- Apply promotional & seasonal overlays to baseline statistical forecast at weekly level, to generate accurate phasing of stock production and deployment within the GB warehousing network.
- Ensure forecast signal reflects correct warehouse direction, ensuring all rework and direct-to-customer volume forecasts are accurately published to APO.
- Provide weekly sales vs. forecast information to the GBSC performance management cycle, ensuring all forecast variations and exceptions are understood and supported with a recovery plan where necessary.
- Develop & improve the monthly root causing packs for your KPI accountability, ensuring it is easily understood at GBSC LT management level.
- Partner with Innovation on innovation and renovation and ensuring right building blocks/assumptions are used. Reviewing first productions volumes and pro-actively flagging risk to help support best availability whilst not creating SLOBs.
- Application of Product Lifecycle Planning.
- Partner with Market & Supply Planning colleagues to ensure weekly alerts reporting is complete and all SKU’s subject to OOS or Excess Inventory risk have a recovery plan.
- Support Network Supply Manager in root causing SLOBs portfolio, particularly when forecast variance has caused this, whilst adjusting ongoing forecast to prevent future SLOBs.
- Ensuring network balance is reviewed to decrease stock moving below minimum sell shelf life thresholds
Skills And Experience Required
- Highly Analytical & Numerate – Confident in handling large datasets and converting raw data into digestible information, e.g. able to identify the ‘why’ behind the ‘what’ of the data.
- Excellent Influencing & Interpersonal Skills – Ability to challenge senior colleagues to generate better performance outcomes; arguing your case whilst still respecting other opinions.
- Communication & Presentation Skills – Ability to articulate potentially complex and vague concepts clearly to large groups; take a data-led approach to meeting/e-mail updates to ‘cut through’ the noise of day-to-day meetings & processes.
- Ability to prioritise workload and effective diary management are a must, whilst converting manuals tasks to systemic, automated processes
- Several years experience in a Demand, Supply or Logistics Planning role
- Proficient user of Microsoft Excel, knowledge of Power BI/SQL or similar preferred
- Exposure to different trade channels – Grocery, On Trade, Wholesale & Convenience, E-Commerce
- Demonstrable knowledge of end-to-end supply chain and different teams’ roles & responsibilities
- Enjoy working in a fast paced, dynamic and at times vague commercial environment.
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