Regional Supply Planner

Job Details

• Location: Hertfordshire Cambridgeshire (Royston)
• Contract Type: Full-Time Permanent
• Closing Date: 23/04/2023

What you’ll be doing…

• Managing stock across our selling channels ensuring we are maximising the sales potential to deliver strong sales and profit.
• Working with our commercial, retail, warehouse, brand centre and planning functions to maintain consistent availability across all products, minimising stock and sales risks.
• Optimising trade through efficient, commercial stock management, identifying opportunities with a pro-active approach to cross-functional working.
• Meticulous managing BBE, ensuring the customer is at the heart of all sales whilst minimising BBE cost and risk across the business.
• Identifying upcoming over and under stock risks to the business; working to minimise risk to availability, sales and end-of-life markdowns.
• Ensuring stock from suppliers and the production line goes to the correct channels based on forward forecasts of availability.
• Maintaining and communicating all reporting, identifying, and investigating any variance to KPIs and using this information to drive improvements across trading activity and conversations.
• Actioning all allocation activity aligned to seasonal and new product strategies, plans, analysis of sales, inventory levels, capacity, sell through rates and retail deliveries.
• Reviewing performance against KPIs and business plans to continuously improve all activity.
• Ensuring all product and seasonal launches arrive OTIF across all channels.

Who you are…

Essential

• Intermediate/advanced Excel skills.
• Strong knowledge of retail trading with a commercial mindset in a fast paced, customer focussed environment.
• Good understanding of stock and availability management.

Desirable

• Previous experience within the retail sector, ideally within a trading function.
• Experience working in an analytical trading role with an understanding supply chain.

Who are we?

We’re one of the UK’s favourite premium chocolate brands, with a range of products spanning luxury gifts, alcohol and our pioneering drinking chocolate system, the Velvetiser™. A cacao pod takes years to grow – it can’t be rushed if it’s going to be just right for our products. The same can be said for [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], which originally started as a mint production company before we realised it was luxury chocolate that we were really passionate about. Now, we’re market leaders in the industry. What began as an online-only business grew to over 100 stores across the UK, and we’re still growing… Today, we’re multi-category, multi-channel, and multi-territory, and our customers, colleagues, cacao farmers and suppliers all benefit from the success we make together. To learn more about us and read about our People Pledge – our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion – click here: [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]

Benefits

As well as a competitive salary and a range of company benefits, you’ll receive 50% discount on all products, and a 70% discount for you and your guests when you stay at our Rabot Estate hideaway on the paradise island of Saint Lucia.

Our People Pledge

At [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], we treat each other with respect, equality and grace. Our mantra? Be brave. Be kind. This People Pledge is underpinned by our values of Originality, Authenticity and Ethics. We encourage new ideas and fresh thinking and for each of you to bring your ORIGINALITY to work. We want you to be your AUTHENTIC self – and feel comfortable to share your differences, and what makes you unique. Our commitment to being an ETHICAL business means we have a deep sense of fairness when it comes to the way we treat one another. This applies during our recruitment process too. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer who positively celebrates a diverse and inclusive culture. We welcome people from all walks of life to join us, bringing their individuality to help us reach our ambitious growth plans.