DEMAND MANAGER - GROCERY

Slough (Head Office)
Hybrid - minimum of 2 days per week on-site.
Join our snack-loving team! We’re looking for a Demand Manager - Grocery to join our team at KP Snacks. Fancy being part of a group where your ideas matter and your growth is celebrated? Keep reading – this might just be your next adventure!
This role plays a key part in ensuring product availability for our major supermarket customers by owning and improving forecast accuracy across a portfolio of KP Snacks products.
You’ll manage and support a small team of Demand Planners, overseeing forecast input and updates, driving continuous improvement, and partnering with stakeholders across Sales, Marketing, Finance, Customer Services, and Supply Planning. With a focus on enhancing forecast accuracy, service levels, and efficiency, you’ll support short- and long-term business planning while enabling great customer service and operational decision-making.
Success in this role relies on strong analytical skills, stakeholder engagement, and the ability to challenge and influence effectively. You’ll also contribute to S&OP processes and cross-functional meetings, ensuring customer needs and business goals are aligned.
If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are passionate about leading people, improving processes, and driving collaboration, this is a fantastic opportunity to make a real impact across the business.

WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU CAN DEMONSTRATE THE FOLLOWING KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• You bring a strong understanding of demand planning and forecasting, ideally within the FMCG sector, supported by a sound grasp of supply chain processes, UK retail dynamics, and customer behaviours.
• Your advanced Excel and analytical skills make you a key contributor to team success, allowing you to interpret data, share insights, and support collaborative decision-making across functions.
• With at least 5 years of experience in forecasting and managing a team, you have transferable leadership skills, a coaching mindset, and the confidence to influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience with systems like Blue Planner is a bonus, and while a degree or specific qualifications aren’t essential, a proactive approach to learning and improvement is highly valued – we encourage applications even if you don’t meet every criteria.
• You embody KP’s values by building strong relationships, driving continuous improvement, and staying solutions-focused, with a flexible mindset and the ability to balance detail and big-picture thinking in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
  

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• Lead and develop a team of Demand Planners, providing coaching, support and direction to ensure accurate forecasting, excellent stakeholder service, and strong functional capabilities across systems and processes.
• Take on the challenge of delivering high forecast accuracy and low bias across a complex customer base and SKU portfolio, using data-driven insights to drive continuous improvement and proactively address risks and opportunities.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, Supply, Finance, and Customer Services, ensuring alignment on forecast assumptions, promotional activity, NPD, and demand shifts – all while driving shared accountability through the S&OP process.
• Influence key business outcomes by maintaining high service levels, supporting revenue delivery, and enabling effective factory planning and raw material scheduling through timely, accurate demand signals.
• Develop expertise in forecasting systems, analytical tools, and S&OP best practice, with the opportunity to shape the evolution of demand planning at KP Snacks by driving continuous improvement, championing innovation, and contributing to wider supply chain leadership initiatives.