Demand Planner
Pubblicato il 14-09-2026 - Ferrero in Alba
About the Role:
As a Demand Planner, you will play a pivotal role in shaping Ferrero's demand forecast across the UK & Ireland, ensuring our products are available for customers at the right time while maintaining optimal freshness and supply chain efficiency. Working as part of the Demand Planning team, you will analyse sales trends, customer demand and market intelligence to build accurate short, medium and long-term forecasts that support our Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP;) process. You'll work with a portfolio of brands and collaborate closely with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain and Customer Development teams to understand changing demand patterns, promotional activity and new product launches. By transforming data into actionable insight, you'll help drive better business decisions, improve forecast accuracy and support the successful delivery of Ferrero's commercial plans.
Main Responsibilities:
In this role, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining accurate demand forecasts across your product portfolio,
ensuring they reflect the latest sales activity, market trends, promotional plans and business assumptions. Working with Demand Planners and cross-functional stakeholders, you will review forecasts, analyse forecast performance against budget and historical trends, and identify both risks and opportunities that could impact product availability or customer service. You will play an integral part in Ferrero's monthly Demand Consensus and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP;) processes, preparing analysis, supporting forecast reviews and contributing to business discussions that align demand with supply capabilities. Through close collaboration with Sales, Marketing and Finance teams, you'll ensure new product launches, seasonal campaigns and promotional activity are accurately reflected within the demand plan. Using systems including SAP APO, Demantra and Microsoft Excel, you'll produce meaningful reporting and analysis to monitor foreca