An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a rapidly expanding global manufacturing organisation that continues to achieve impressive year-on-year growth across international markets.

As part of the next phase of the company's evolution, they are seeking an ambitious and commercially minded Head of Demand Planning to establish and lead a best-in-class demand planning function. This is a genuinely greenfield role, offering the successful candidate the chance to design processes, build capability, influence strategy, and create a scalable planning framework that supports continued global expansion.

The Opportunity

You will be responsible for developing the demand planning vision and roadmap, creating a robust forecasting capability and driving alignment across Sales, Commercial, Finance, Operations and Supply Chain.

You will lead the implementation of best-practice demand planning processes whilst providing strategic insight that enables the business to make informed decisions around capacity, inventory, service and growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Create and implement the company's end-to-end demand planning strategy.
• Establish forecasting processes, governance and KPI frameworks from the ground up.
• Lead and facilitate the S&OP / IBP demand review process.
• Partner with commercial and regional teams to improve forecast accuracy and demand visibility.
• Build and develop a high-performing demand planning team as the function grows.
• Drive data-led decision making through analysis of market trends, customer demand patterns and business performance.
• Influence inventory, production and capacity planning decisions through accurate forecasting.
• Champion continuous improvement and planning excellence across the organisation.
• Support the implementation and optimisation of planning systems and tools.

About You

We are looking for an experienced demand planning leader who thrives in a fast-paced, evolving environment and is excited by the challenge of building something new.

You will ideally possess:

• Significant experience within demand planning, forecasting or integrated business planning within a manufacturing environment.
• Experience leading S&OP or IBP processes across complex supply chains.
• Proven success building or transforming planning functions and processes.
• Strong leadership capabilities with experience developing high-performing teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior leadership.
• Strong analytical capability and a data-driven approach to decision making.
• Experience working within global or multi-site organisations.
• Exposure to advanced planning systems, ERP platforms and forecasting tools.

Why Join?

• Rare opportunity to create and lead a demand planning function from inception.
• Join a global manufacturer experiencing sustained year-on-year growth.
• High-profile position with significant visibility across the executive leadership team.
• Opportunity to shape future supply chain strategy and business performance.
• Opportunity to develop into a group role.
• Excellent career progression within a rapidly growing international organisation.
• Competitive salary, bonus and comprehensive benefits package.

If you are a strategic demand planning leader looking for the opportunity to build, influence and make a lasting impact within a high-growth manufacturing business please send your CV to .

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