So, what will I be doing?

In this exciting and fast paced role you'll be instrumental in building great relationships with your customer demand teams. This is a great opportunity for someone with demand planning experience, or transferrable skillsets, looking for an exciting new position.

Using business intelligence and forecast information from our Sales and Marketing teams and your customers, you'll build, develop and maintain the accurate volume forecast.

You will need an open and flexible approach to building great relationships with your customer demand teams, including collaboratively working across Head Office (HQ) and operations.

Key responsibilities will include:

Building, developing, and maintaining effective accurate demand forecasts at Customer level
Managing and building strong supply chain customer relationships, and leading customer supply chain reviews, focusing on forecast accuracy, service, availability and waste reduction
Representing the business in demand planning & supply reviews with your customers, ensuring great service and collaborative communication of shortages
Ensuring that all events, launches, delists, range changes, promotional and marketing activities are effectively reflected in the sales forecast
Utilising forecast accuracy analysis to develop and improve forecast accuracy at customer and product level for ourselves and our customers
Working collaboratively with internal stakeholders including Account Management, Production Planning, Marketing and Logistics to ensure great service and forecast accuracy
Closely coordinating and communicating customer action plans, sharing key insights and information with the Production Planning teams

Sounds interesting, what do I need?

The important things:

Eye for detail and good with numbers!
Confident communicator
Building relationships
Positive, can do attitude

Even better if you have:

Understanding of demand forecasting with an appreciation of the financial impacts
Chilled Food manufacturing/short shelf life experience
Good knowledge of Supply Chain operations and Demand Planning, ideally in FMCG supporting retail partners and/or supply chain qualification

Degree or equivalent professional qualification

Experience of Dynamics and Sofco software packages, or similar

Experience in other software packages – Power BI, Smartsheet, and Microsoft Office & Teams

Why should I join the family?

We’re independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yogurt.

We’re sure you don’t need convincing, but there’s a whole host of benefits that we offer including:

25 days + bank holidays
non-contributory pension scheme
annual bonus (as part of the Employee Benefit Trust, based on company performance for the year)
life cover
healthcare cash back plan
cycle to work scheme
subsidised Yeo Valley products and services
preferential rates with our partners
learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow

Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can. So, we recommend you get your application in straight away – and don’t miss the opportunity to join us!

Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time.

Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.