Supply Chain Forecasting Placement

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Deadline: 15th May 2015
Salary: £17,000
Length: Placement (10 Months+)
Roles: Data Science, Purchasing and Supply
Location: London

About Danone

Danone is a major FMCG company in the UK, with market leading brands across four divisions: Waters (Evian, Volvic), Dairies (Actimel, Activia, Shape), Early Life Nutrition (Aptamil, Cow & Gate) and Nutricia Medical (Fortisip).

Danone Ltd is the fresh dairy business behind some of the best loved yogurt brands in the UK such as Activia, Oykos, Danio and Shape as well as Britain’s best-loved probiotic drinking yogurt, Actimel.

Our powerful culture is built on four values: Humanism, Openness, Proximity and Enthusiasm.

Supply Chain Forecasting Placement

Supply chain excellence is dependent on the quality of the Short Term forecast, this role has a key responsibility to bring a strong forecast upon which other functions within Supply Chain depend. You will be sharing relevant info with supply planning team to allow them to maximise CSL & minimise waste, calculating trade-offs where necessary; bring insights to customer collaboration and category demand planner on short term brand trends to be aware of; translate customer knowledge from customer collaboration into a weekly and daily, by SKU forecast.

Mission of the role

  • Input and articulate ST volume forecast for 3 to 4 brands for 12 week horizon
  • Together with supply planning team proactively manage supply risks and opportunities over a 12 week period
  • Gather information, largely from customer collaboration team to build daily and weekly forecast for the period. Incorporate customer knowledge from customer collaboration team to manage the operational forecast:
  • Promo performance
  • Analyse daily order patterns to manage and articulate short term brand trends

Who we are looking for:

leadership & functional competencies

  • Is able to spot and articulate emerging trends on the brand in the demand forecast and to the wider SC team
  • Strong communicator – clearly articulating forecast and potential ambiguity that needs to be taken into account within this

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