Job Title: Demand Planner
Contract Duration: End date 31/03/2025
Location: London - Hybrid
Pay Rate: £194.60 PAYE Or £255.00 Umbrella Rate Per Day
One of my global pharmaceutical clients are urgently seeking a Demand Planner to join their team on a contractual basis, initially until the end of March 2025. You will be responsible ccoordinating effective demand forecasting and inventory management for the business, ensuring smooth material flow and a high customer service level. You will also be collaborating with other departments and 3PL to achieve goals.
Your Responsibilities Will include:
· Developing demand and inventory policy through analysis of all supply chain factors.
· Contribute to the S&OP process to ensure sales forecast and underlying event/assumptions are transmitted to SAP according to best assumptions.
· Ensuring demand forecasting data is consolidated and one agreed demand number is produced.
· Managing the demand and inventory management process for materials under responsibility.
· Maintaining all finished pack products within agreed inventory parameters to ensure continuity of supply.
· Ensure all planning parameters are correctly maintained in the master data.
· Manage the life cycle of the product from launch to pruning phase.
· Minimising obsolescence costs by effective inventory management and knowledge of demand.
· Providing financial and volume projections of inventory to supplement decision making.
· Full control of SAP transactions (MM/SD) by ensuring sales and inventory reconciliation with 3PL.
· Interface monitoring with 3PL – ensuring correct data flow between parties.
· Identify stock outs risks and manage the situation with close collaboration with all stakeholders within the CPO.