Refresco
Supply Chain Forecaster
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Supply Chain Forecaster
Kegworth
Monday – Thursday 8:30am – 5pm, Friday 8:30am – 4pm
FTC 6 MONTHS
Reward & Benefits:
- Annual bonus
- Annual pay review
- Early finish on a Friday
- 28 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Purchase up to an additional 3 days holidays
- Life assurance
- Employee referral scheme - earn a bonus for referring your friends or family
- GroceryAid – a support service offering financial, legal, wellbeing and practical support, advice and counselling
- Cheers – access to our award winning benefits platform offering discounts, free perks, and well-being tools for all employees
- Free onsite parking, and discounted products
About The Role
Reporting to the Demand & Forecast Manager, this role will effectively ‘drive’ the business forecasting software maintaining and updating volume forecasts accurately. Issuing forecast review files on time and in the appropriate detail. It will also analyse forecast accuracy figures, and target consistently underperforming SKUs, categories or customers to drive sustainable improvement. Generating reports and all routine communications output from the forecasting department. Responsible for the good housekeeping of all relevant systems and carrying out administration activities as allocated by the Forecast & Demand Manager for the Forecasting function.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
- Manage demand forecasting activities to ensure accurate planning, support customer service targets, and optimise operational efficiency.
- Analyse forecast data, market trends, and customer demand patterns to identify risks, opportunities, and potential supply constraints.
- Collaborate with Sales, Supply Chain, Operations, and other key stakeholders to support the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process and business decision-making.
- Monitor forecast accuracy and forecasting KPIs, implementing corrective actions and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance performance.
- Maintain forecasting systems and master data, ensuring data integrity, system effectiveness, and adherence to forecasting best practices.
- Investigate and resolve forecast exceptions, demand fluctuations, promotions, and supply issues to improve forecast reliability and support business objectives.
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About You
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and identify trends.
- Advanced Excel skills and confidence working with large datasets.
- Previous experience within supply chain, forecasting, planning, inventory, demand planning, logistics, finance, or another data-driven environment would be advantageous.
- A proactive mindset and ability to work collaboratively across multiple teams.
- Someone who enjoys solving problems and influencing decision-making through data.
About Refresco
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Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global, National and Emerging brands, and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia. Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass. Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market demand.
Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and has more than 13,500 employees. www.refresco.com.
Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we’re only just getting started.
We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers.
Find out more about the Refresco Values here: https://www.refresco.co.uk/uk/about/our-values
If you fit this profile and are excited by this opportunity, we would be delighted to hear from you!
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