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This is a senior role where you will own the business forecast, covering both the outcomes and the methods of achieving them. Leading a team of seven and reporting to the Head of Supply chain, you'll play a crucial part in our business transformation, operating new processes and leveraging a new system.
Job Responsibility:
S&OP Leadership: Taking ownership of the Toolstation Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process
Forecasting & Reporting: Leading demand forecasting for all SKUs and managing promotional planning, control, and reporting using Slim4
Range Control: Maintaining proposition maintenance and fulfilment channel control, as well as driving proposition development
Performance Management: Monitoring the main KPIs, specifically Forecast Accuracy and Forecast Bias
Stakeholder Collaboration: Working collaboratively with the Category team to reach consensus demand, with Supply Planning to consider constraints, and with the Customer Team to gain insight on promotional activity
Requirements:
Leadership & Coaching: The ability to support and develop team members to deliver KPI performance and personal growth
Collaboration: Experience facilitating the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process by gathering intelligence from sales, marketing, and finance to reach a consensus plan
Commercial Persuasion: The crucial ability to 'challenge without authority', often pushing back on over-optimistic commercial requests with data-backed reality checks
Conflict Resolution: Skill in guiding your team and stakeholders to ensure alignment
Empathy: You'll see team members as individuals and be able to identify, support and respond to their needs
Attributes: Customer-focused, curious, and proactive, with a continuous improvement mindset.
What we offer:
competitive salary and benefits commensurate with the role
contributory pension
BAYE and SAYE schemes
life assurance
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