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Do you enjoy solving complex supply challenges? Are you someone who can spot risks early and keep products moving in a fast-paced environment? Looking for a role where your planning decisions directly impact customer availability across international markets? We’re partnering with a globally recognised FMCG business to hire a Supply Planner into their EMEA operations team. This is a critical role focused on ensuring the right products are in the right place at the right time, while balancing service levels and inventory efficiency. The Business This is a high-growth, internationally recognised brand operating across multiple regions, with a strong presence throughout EMEA. They combine the scale of a global organisation with the pace and mindset of a challenger brand, creating an environment that is fast-moving, collaborative, and performance-driven. The culture is built around ownership, accountability, and people who take pride in delivering results. The Opportunity As Supply Planner, you’ll take ownership of end-to-end supply planning across a defined product portfolio, working closely with demand planning, production partners, and internal stakeholders. You’ll be responsible for translating forecast into actionable supply plans, identifying potential risks, and making adjustments to ensure continuity of supply. This role requires someone who is comfortable operating at pace, making decisions, and continuously improving planning accuracy and processes. Key Responsibilities • Develop and maintain supply plans to support demand across multiple EMEA markets., • Proactively manage supply risks, including stock shortages, production delays, and demand fluctuations., • Work closely with external manufacturing partners to manage purchase orders and production timelines., • Continuously review inventory levels, ensuring optimal stock holding while maintaining service levels., • Support product launches and lifecycle changes, including phase-in and phase-out activity., • Maintain accurate planning data within systems, ensuring reliability of outputs., • Partner with cross-functional teams to align supply plans with business priorities., • Monitor performance metrics and investigate root causes of supply or inventory issues., • Drive improvements across planning processes and supplier performance. About You • Experience in supply planning or a similar planning function within a fast-paced environment, • Strong working knowledge of MRP is essential, • Familiarity with planning systems such as SAP (e.g. APO, IBP) is beneficial, • Advanced Excel skills with a strong analytical approach, • Able to manage multiple priorities and adapt quickly to changing demand, • Proactive mindset, with the ability to anticipate and solve problems, • Strong communication skills, comfortable working across teams and functions, • Self-motivated, with a high level of ownership and accountability 📧 Interested? Apply now or get in touch directly to find out more The Advocate Group is a leading recruitment partner to the FMCG, healthcare, and consumer product sectors. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age. By applying for this role, you are agreeing to our Privacy Policy, which can be found on our website. The Advocate Group is acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy.

Do you enjoy solving complex supply challenges?\n\nAre you someone who can spot risks early and keep products moving in a fast-paced environment?\n\nLooking for a role where your planning decisions directly impact customer availability across international markets?\n\nWe’re partnering with a globally recognised FMCG business to hire a Supply Planner into their EMEA operations team. This is a critical role focused on ensuring the right products are in the right place at the right time, while balancing service levels and inventory efficiency.\n\nThe Business\n\nThis is a high-growth, internationally recognised brand operating across multiple regions, with a strong presence throughout EMEA.\n\nThey combine the scale of a global organisation with the pace and mindset of a challenger brand, creating an environment that is fast-moving, collaborative, and performance-driven.\n\nThe culture is built around ownership, accountability, and people who take pride in delivering results.\n\nThe Opportunity\n\nAs Supply Planner, you’ll take ownership of end-to-end supply planning across a defined product portfolio, working closely with demand planning, production partners, and internal stakeholders.\n\nYou’ll be responsible for translating forecast into actionable supply plans, identifying potential risks, and making adjustments to ensure continuity of supply.\n\nThis role requires someone who is comfortable operating at pace, making decisions, and continuously improving planning accuracy and processes.\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\nDevelop and maintain supply plans to support demand across multiple EMEA markets.\nProactively manage supply risks, including stock shortages, production delays, and demand fluctuations.\nWork closely with external manufacturing partners to manage purchase orders and production timelines.\nContinuously review inventory levels, ensuring optimal stock holding while maintaining service levels.\nSupport product launches and lifecycle changes, including phase-in and phase-out activity.\nMaintain accurate planning data within systems, ensuring reliability of outputs.\nPartner with cross-functional teams to align supply plans with business priorities.\nMonitor performance metrics and investigate root causes of supply or inventory issues.\nDrive improvements across planning processes and supplier performance.\n\nAbout You\n\nExperience in supply planning or a similar planning function within a fast-paced environment\nStrong working knowledge of MRP is essential\nFamiliarity with planning systems such as SAP (e.g. APO, IBP) is beneficial\nAdvanced Excel skills with a strong analytical approach\nAble to manage multiple priorities and adapt quickly to changing demand\nProactive mindset, with the ability to anticipate and solve problems\nStrong communication skills, comfortable working across teams and functions\nSelf-motivated, with a high level of ownership and accountability\n\nInterested? Apply now or get in touch directly to find out more\n\nThe Advocate Group is a leading recruitment partner to the FMCG, healthcare, and consumer product sectors. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.\n\nBy applying for this role, you are agreeing to our Privacy Policy, which can be found on our website. The Advocate Group is acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy

Fashiion Retailer\n\nEcommerce\n\nThe Head of Logistics and Inventory Control is responsible for our global freight movements and our inventory control across 4 regions, 6 distribution centres and our store network. Initially this responsibility will be very hands on and the operational support for this will sit in the global team but phase two will be to develop inventory control and freight capability within the regions as they grow.\n\n * Experience managing a team\n\n * Experience defining a global network strategy suited to changing business needs as well as running tenders and managing site migrations\n\n * Has previously managed either 3PLs or freight forwarders and able to demonstrate driving operational performance improvement as well as budget management\n\n * Exceptional Excel skills to model our data into a cost-to-serve dashboard by region and channel. This tool does not yet exist so you must understand what this could look like, how you would pull it together and how you would update the data on a regular basis\n\n * Able to demonstrate real examples of taking ownership of projects/improvements right through to the end result\n\n * Understanding and commercial awareness of the total supply chain including supply and demand planning\n\n * Experience with multiple ERP and WMS systems is highly desirable, someone IT savvy who is able to bring experience of improved information sharing both internally and externally would be a real benefit\n\n * An entrepreneurial flair, real commerciality and great relationship building abilities!\n\nThis will then enable the Head of Logistics and Inventory Control to focus on more strategic elements such as leading the regular review of our total logistics network to ensure it remains capable of supporting future growth plans, implementing global logistics best practice across our 3PL distribution centres and go-to-market network to drive improvements in service, cost and accuracy.\n\nWe are looking for someone who has excellent attention to detail and is willing to roll up their sleeves and get stuck into the operation, but who can also work strategically to overcome long-term challenges in an exceptionally fast-growing business.\n\nRole Accountabilities:\n\n * Run the Logistics function at , helping to define strategic priorities and direction, but also owning operational execution\n\n * Manage a team of three (Logistics Planner and 2x Global Inventory Controller), supporting them to achieve their objectives as well as helping them develop and grow\n\n * Work with the Global Inventory Controllers to ensure exceptional inventory accuracy at all warehouses and our stores\n\n * Define, implement and control compliance of global best practice in all warehouses to improve cost, service and accuracy. Key processes include inbound checks, batch control, outbound order presentation and accuracy, returns management and perpetual inventory.\n\n * Manage freight forwarder relationships and primary transport budget, working collaboratively to improve visibility, mitigate future capacity risks and reduce costs\n\n * Design and own our cost-to-serve model, detailing how regional and channel costs are broken down by activity. Interrogate the data to present biggest opportunities for efficiency to Supply Chain leadership team and help implement change if required\n\n * Support Supply Chain regional leads in 3PL and carrier tenders.\n\nReporting Relationships:\n\n * Reporting into the Supply Chain Transformation Director/Customer Supply Chain Director\n\n * Supporting the Supply Chain regional leads\n\n * Managing three direct reports\n\nRequirements:\n\n * \n\nBenefits:\n\n * Competitive Salary Offering\n\n * MediCare cash plan\n\n * Birthday Day off\n\n * Summer Fridays\n\n * Matched Pension Plan\n\n * Amazing Magic Discount on trinkets and treasures

Please note: This role is fully office-based with no hybrid or remote working options.If you're the kind of Demand Planner who doesn't just update forecasts, but challenges them - this will interest you.I'm hiring for a major UK food manufacturer with a strong portfolio across a variety of categorie

A major UK food manufacturer is seeking a Demand Planner who challenges forecasts rather than just updating them.The role involves building accurate forecasts, leading S&OP conversations, and improving data quality.Applicants should have over 3 years of Demand Planning experience specifically in FMC

Senior Manufacturing Production Planner Salary: £50,000 – £60,000 (depending on experience) Location: Feltham, Middlesex (Onsite) We are seeking an experienced and proactive Senior Manufacturing Production Planner to join our dynamic production team. This is a key role within the business, responsible for leading planning activities across the shop floor to ensure materials, capacity, and resources are aligned to deliver customer requirements efficiently and on time. As a Senior Manufacturing Production Planner, you will play an integral part in driving operational excellence. You will take ownership of production planning processes, ensuring the right materials are in the right place at the right time, while maintaining an executable operational plan that reflects capacity and demand. The appointed Senior Manufacturing Production Planner will carry out the following Key Responsibilities Lead shop floor planning activities to support operational delivery Prioritise materials and resolve issues across functions including Goods In, Stores, Dispatch, Purchasing, and Engineering Liaise closely with Purchasing to ensure material availability and supply quality Raise, manage, and control Works Orders in line with MRP requirements Review and action MRP exception messages Maintain and manage MRP parameters in accordance with company policies Ensure full traceability across the shop floor, with an understanding of Aerospace/Medical requirements Align with Operations to support sales forecasting and site planning activitiesThe Selected Senior Manufacturing Production Planner will need to meet the following key criteria for the role; Proven experience in a production planning role within a manufacturing environment Strong knowledge of MRP systems and planning processes Excellent organisational and problem-solving skills Ability to work collaboratively across multiple departments Proactive communicator with a continuous improvement mindset Understanding of traceability requirements within highly regulated industry. Demonstrated experience working across complex and varied Bill of Materials (BOM) product linesThis position in other businesses can be referred to as; Production Planner or Production Scheduler, Production Planning Engineer or Lead Production Engineer, Production Planning Manager or Production Controller or Production Demand Planner or Demand Planner. Ready to take the next step in your career? Apply today

Inventory & Demand Planner | Competitive Salary | Massive Growth. You will take ownership of demand planning and inventory optimisation processes, working closely with category managers and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure planning decisions support both customer demand and commercial perform

The Advocate Group is proud to be partnering with a multi-billion dollar business in the Beverage industry and support the search for their next Demand Planner within their EMEA business. Proactively identify, communicate and follow up on significant trends and demand changes to achieve optimum fini

Alexander Lloyd are partnering with a global brand to hire an experienced Demand Planner on a permanent basis. Minimum 2 years’ demand planning or supply chain experience. Own demand forecasts for assigned markets/customers.

Manpower are currently seeking an interim Demand Planner, to work with our global FMCG client The Magnum Ice Cream Company, renowned for brands such as Magnum, Ben & Jerry's, Cornetto and Wall's, and become an integral part of their fast-paced FMCG environment. This role has overall responsibility f

Are you a data-driven professional with a passion for forecasting and supply chain optimisation? We are seeking a dynamic Demand Planner to join a team at a Head Office in Plymouth as part of an ongoing expansion. About the RoleAs a Demand Planner, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring stock avai

We are looking for an experienced Demand Planner to join a large-scale, complex programme environment within a Digital & IT function. In this role, you will play a key part in shaping and managing the forward demand planning capabilityensuring that business needs are aligned with delivery timelines,

A dynamic technology company in Greater London is seeking a Demand Planning Manager to oversee demand forecasting and planning. Ideal candidates have 2-3 years of experience in demand planning and are proficient in Excel/Google Sheets.

Partner with category managers, suppliers, and vendors to manage demand forecasts, stock levels, budgets, and lead times across products. Develop and maintain SKU-level forecasting models and tools to drive accurate demand planning. Experience in demand planning, forecasting, or supply chain managem

A global planning company is seeking a Demand & Supply Planner in London, Hammersmith. This role involves end-to-end demand and supply planning for customizable products across EMEA, including forecasting and inventory strategy. The planner will work closely with various teams to ensure product avai

To be our Demand Planner you’ll have a desire to learn about all elements of our supply chain, working within a supply and demand planning function where on time supply availability is critical to business success. Forecasting Demand: Build and maintain accurate rolling demand forecast across mult

We re looking for a Demand Planner to join a fast-evolving supply chain team within an international business undergoing a major transformation in how products are sourced and delivered. Reporting into the Demand & Supply Planning Manager, you ll take ownership of demand forecasting across a diverse

A prominent recruitment firm seeks a Demand Planner to join a global FMCG business in Greater London. The ideal candidate will have more than 2 years of experience in Demand Planning, preferably within the FMCG sector. The position offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment and contribu

To support our rapid growth, we’re looking for a Sales & Demand Planner, you will be the driving force behind our strategic sales forecasting and inventory optimization. In this role, you will be responsible for building, refining, and executing demand plans for the UK market. This role demands a

Demand Planner - 12 m FTC | Hybrid 3 days in the office | Central London | £45,000-£55,000. Pod Talent is partnering with a thriving London-based vegan beauty & cosmetics brand seeking a Demand Planner to join their Supply Chain team for 12 months. It's an excellent opportunity for a Demand Planne

A dynamic healthy food retailer is seeking a Demand Planner to join its supply chain team in central London. You will manage demand forecasts for key accounts, ensure accurate reporting of forecast KPIs, and assist in the S&OP process. The ideal candidate will have at least 2 years of experience in

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Demand Planner for the EMEA Operations Planning Team. You will manage demand forecasting and supply plans for designated product categories, ensuring inventory meets business goals. Experience in supply or demand planning is essential, along with strong Exce

A leading toy company is looking for a Demand & Supply Planner in Greater London. This role involves end-to-end demand forecasting and supply planning for the Pop! Yourself product line across EMEA. Successful candidates will have experience in demand planning with a strong analytical background.

We are delighted to announce a new position to join our Operations team here at Aqua Cure as a Demand Planner!. The Demand Planner will be required to oversee the MRP tools within the ERP to optimise stock availability along with producing forecasts across sales, inventory & operations. Reviewing op

Support the Senior Demand Planner on data collection, analysis, and reporting. Perform any other duties as directed by the Senior Demand Planner.

Collaborate with the Segment Demand Planners. Activity Planning Guidelines and the DMR and One Demand Activity Planning Actions. Customer Demand Planning & DRH Head.

A top-tier audio platform company in Greater London seeks a Sales & Demand Planner to drive strategic sales forecasting and inventory optimization. Candidates should possess experience in demand planning within the consumer product sector and advanced analytical skills. This role is pivotal in manag

A logistics and supply chain company in the United Kingdom is seeking a motivated Demand Planner to join their Milton Keynes team.

A leading procurement institute is seeking a Demand Planner to connect commercial ambition with operational reality. Responsibilities include maintaining a credible demand forecast and collaborating with various functions to ensure demand visibility. This hybrid role requires strong demand planning

A leading consultancy firm is seeking a Demand Planner to drive demand forecasting across various markets. Candidates should have proven demand planning experience and strong analytical skills.

Years Experience as an FMCG Demand Planner. An opportunity has arisen for a Demand Planner to join a Global FMCG Business. The position involves close collaboration with internal teams and external partners to ensure demand signals are accurately captured, analysed, and reflected in planning systems

By improving forecast accuracy and forward visibility across multiple markets, the Demand Planner will enable better, faster decisions as the business grows internationally. As our first ever Demand Planner, you will sit at the heart of the business, connecting commercial ambition with operational r

A leading technology company in Greater London is seeking an ambitious Demand Planner. In this fast-paced role, you will manage supply chain needs, forecast demand, and support multiple sales teams.

To support our rapid growth, we’re looking for a Sales & Demand Planner, you will be the driving force behind our strategic sales forecasting and inventory optimization. Significant experience in demand planning & sales forecasting, preferably within the consumer product industry. In this role, yo

On a day-to-day basis you will be responsible for: Owning the demand plan for the region and ensuring it meets our agreed accuracy targetsRegular meetings with Sales and key customers to review trends, risks/opportunities and promotionsPresenting the demand plan and insight to the S&OP team bi-weekl

A fast-growing business in Edmonton is seeking a Supply Chain Planner who will be responsible for demand forecasting, inventory management, and ensuring smooth supply chain operations.

Demand Planner, to work with our global FMCG client. This role has overall responsibility for the quality of the forecast, translating business strategy and insights into demand drivers, and using shipment trends and insights to enable the ICLT to course‑correct the business strategy. Market Colla

The Demand Planner will work within the UK & Ireland Operations & Supply Chain team based in Kingston Upon Thames, London to gather, analyse, record & track finished goods demand within UK & Ireland. Ensure the latest finished goods demand plan is accurately reflected in Atlas forecasting system and

A recruitment agency is seeking a Japanese Speaking Demand Planning Manager in London.

A global spirits company based in Kingston upon Thames is seeking a Demand Planner to optimize inventory and forecasting. This role involves analyzing demand data, maintaining accurate forecasts in the planning system, and collaborating with various teams to ensure product availability. Ideal candid

We are now looking for a Demand Planner for our office in London. Report on and manage demand trends + channel level inventory guidance for demand channels. Experience managing and working with demand planning tools (eg.

A leading consumer goods company based in London is looking for an experienced Demand Planning Manager to oversee demand forecasting and planning across DTC and retail channels. The ideal candidate will have at least 2-3 years of experience in demand planning, strong analytical skills, and proficien

A leading retail company is seeking a Supply and Demand Planner to connect strategy with action in a fast-paced supply chain environment. The role involves collaborating with teams and suppliers, forecasting demand, and ensuring efficient operations.

As demand continues to accelerate, the business is now looking for a Demand Planner who can bring structure, clarity and visibility to how demand is forecast, understood and communicated across the organisation. Analyse demand patterns and performance to improve forecast accuracy and provide the bus

TEAMBULK ARE HIRING A DEMAND PLANNER. At the heart of our business is our Supply Chain team, and we’re looking for a driven and passionate Demand Planner to join us. Ownership and excellence in building and maintaining our demand planning software (FuturMaster), using reporting tools to analyse an