Demand Planner

What would you get for working here?

If you are you a commercially-minded Demand Planner looking to make a meaningful impact in a fast-paced, high-growth FMCG environment, with the experience and skills we are looking for, then you will receive a total reward package that includes:

• A competitive salary of between £32,000 and £36,000 p/a DOE
• 8% Pension Contribution
• 28 days annual leave (Inc of Bank Holidays)
• £250 refer-a-friend scheme
• Access to an exclusive employee benefits/discounts platform where you can save £££s on your everyday spends
• Excellent coffee machines available free-of-charge
• Professional development opportunities and qualifications
• A progressive working environment that puts its people at the heart of what it does
• Great opportunity for career development

What would you be doing?

Our Vision as a business is to be the “Go-to” supplier of bakery products, working nationally with retailers such as M&S, Tesco, JS Sainsbury and Waitrose on their premium private label range and regionally through the Village Bakery brand. In achieving this vision, we want to be recognised as a family business that continually invests in the future through the development of our people, quality and food safety culture, equipment and processes.

As a member of the Operations team you will be directly contributing to this vision through your core tasks and responsibilities these will include, but are not limited to:

• Develop and maintain accurate demand forecasts using statistical tools and market insights.
• Collaborate with Commercial, Supply Chain and Production teams to ensure alignment of forecasts with business objectives.
• Lead monthly Demand Reviews and support the Sales and Operations Planning process to drive consensus-based forecasts.
• Monitor and report forecast accuracy, identifying key drivers behind variances.
• Analyse trends, promotions, and customer data to inform short- and long-term planning.
• Continuously improve forecasting processes and tools.
• Organising and managing the Company’s apprenticeship programmes, liaising with relevant departments, to ensure an effective pipeline of talent into the business

What you’ll bring?

The successful candidate for this role will need to demonstrate the following skills, qualifications and attributes:

• Proven experience in a demand planning or forecasting role, ideally within FMCG or food manufacturing.
• Strong analytical skills with proficiency in Excel; experience with forecasting software (e.g., SAP APO, Oracle, Anaplan, Stevens) is a plus.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Commercial awareness with an ability to turn data into actionable insight.
• A proactive, detail-oriented mindset and a passion for continuous improvement.

So, who are we?

If you haven’t heard of us before we are a privately owned and managed Craft Bakery producing an award-winning range of Bread, Morning Goods, Pies and gluten free products.

Our business has been producing products in this category since 1964 and since then we have grown in success due to our reputation for quality, innovation and technical experience. As a result of this continued growth, we now operate from a number of world class and well invested bakeries in and around Wrexham, including our dedicated Gluten free site ‘Gluten Freedom’ and our state-of-the-art ‘Super Bakery’ at Ash Road. 

If you would like to join our award-winning, quality-driven team please use the ‘apply now’ link and follow the on-line application instructions.

We look forward to welcoming you to our team soon!