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About the Role
Wild is seeking a holistic, high-energy Senior Planner to integrate demand and supply planning, driving global strategy and owning total inventory, supply, and global demand signals across DTC and Retail channels. This role requires a commercial builder and strong leader capable of challenging the status quo to scale the company from a startup to a scale-up environment.
Responsibilities
- Act as the connective tissue between demand signals and supply execution, ensuring commercial ambition aligns with inventory and factory capacities.
- Own and coordinate the monthly S&OP cycle, leading forecasting sessions, supply constraint reviews, and reconciliation against the business plan.
- Translate demand signals into robust supply and capacity plans, optimizing inventory health and product availability in collaboration with manufacturing partners.
- Own global forecast inputs for DTC and retail channels, translating EPOS data and buyer insights into operational order plans.
- Monitor global stock cover, aged stock, and write-off risk, owning the Risks and Opportunities register and leading mitigation workstreams.
- Support range review processes to ensure clean transitions between old and new SKUs, preventing stockouts and excess write-offs.
- Manage bottom-up consensus and reconcile against top-down financial targets, articulating gaps, risks, and opportunities to leadership.
- Manage and develop the Planning Team, building their technical and commercial capability.
- Act as a cross-functional collaborator with Commercial, Finance, and Logistics, challenging behaviors and driving commercial alignment.
- Synthesize complex end-to-end planning challenges into clear narratives and recommendations for senior stakeholders.
Requirements
- Proven experience spanning both demand and supply planning with knowledge across the E2E supply chain in a fast-paced environment.
- 7+ years of experience in a relevant field.
- Experience operating in fast-moving, high-growth settings, with the ability to build infrastructure.
- Experience running end-to-end S&OP or IBP cycles in a consumer goods environment.
- Demonstrable ability to manipulate and interrogate large datasets using tools such as Excel, Google Sheets, SQL, or BI platforms.
- High agency and leadership, with the ability to challenge the status quo and build tools or processes to improve operations.
- Commercial acumen and leadership presence to scale with the business.
Skills
- Demand Planning
- Supply Planning
- S&OP
- IBP
- Forecasting
- Inventory Management
- Capacity Planning
- Data Analysis
- Excel
- Google Sheets
- SQL
- BI Platforms
- Leadership
- Stakeholder Management
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Manager - Lead
Benefits
- 25 days holidays + bank holidays
- 9 extra remote working days
- Hybrid working
- Enhanced maternity, paternity & parental leave
- 4% Company Pension
- Mental well-being support through Spill
- Private healthcare through Vitality
- Weekly early finishes
- Social events
- Annual L&D budget
- Free breakfast
- Free & discounted Wild products
- 2 x team volunteering days
- 2 x personal volunteering days
About the Company
- Wild is on a mission to remove single-use plastic from the bathroom with refillable, natural, and scent-sational products.
- Launched in 2020, Wild is a high-growth company and one of Europe's fastest-growing start-ups.
Equal Opportunity
- At Wild, we know that diversity drives innovation and creativity.
- We are committed to creating and maintaining a workplace where all employees feel valued and empowered to bring their most authentic selves to work.
- We recognise that diversity goes beyond visible differences such as race, gender, age, and ethnicity and encompasses a broad spectrum of backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.
- We encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply!
- If we can make any adjustments to help you to perform your best in the process, please let us know!