Demand and Supply Associate – Pharmaceutical Industry

Newly created role

North West London / Buckinghamshire Border

Overview

Working with a Global Pharmaceutical business to support the demand and supply team to deliver high level customer service through the management of the S&OP Process. You will collaborate internally with Commercial, Customer Service and Product Supply functions to deliver accurate forecasts and stock availability at a brand and customer level.

Job Title: Demand and Supply Associate

Salary: c.£35’000 Fixed Term Contract

Contract Term: 18 months’ initial term

Location: North West London / Buckinghamshire border

This is an interesting opportunity where you will utilise your customer service experience along with using your well-honed data and analytical skills.

You will be responsible for:

• Provision of all reports required to effectively run S&OP, utilising applications to do this
• Responsible for the development of a robust, un-biased and comprehensive sales forecast for approximately 300 SKUs, split across multiple brands, markets and customers
• To analyse reports and support the team in understanding customer and stock changes
• Challenge forecasts to drive continuous improvement and ensure that the escalation process is followed to highlight variances, and potential issues throughout the supply chain and S&OP process
• Review and make improvements to existing reports to improve data validation, ease and speed of update
• To respond and communicate on demand & supply issues with customers a timely manner in order to avoid out of stocks
• Contacting customers where necessary to further discuss forecast alignment
• Review, identify and resolve key forecast inaccuracy issues and demand variationsIn depth analysis of historical sales data for trends, bias, promotions, seasonality and demand peaks
• Management of the forecast database ensuring it is updated and maintained
• Prioritization of orders with customer services / site quality team where required
• Agreement of supply scenarios where capacity does not meet commercial demand

If this role is of interest to you and you have proven experience within an opportunity like this in the Pharmaceutical/FMCG industry please click to apply or contact Lorna on +44(0)1892 507141 or Lorna@bluepelican.com