About the Role
As a Supply Planning Assistant, you will support the Supply & Demand Planning function by maintaining accurate stock, purchase order, and supply data. Your work will ensure inventory visibility, identify stock risks, and directly impact stock availability and flow across brands, contributing to a scalable supply planning function. This new role offers an opportunity to shape the function's development with a clear path for career progression.
Responsibilities
- Track purchase orders and critical path milestones, following up with Procurement and suppliers on delays to ensure timely stock arrival.
- Monitor inventory across suppliers, 3PL warehouses, and in-transit stock, highlighting stock-out, overstock, and understock risks.
- Maintain accurate weekly stock reporting, including on-hand, on-order, and in-production inventory.
- Support the Stock & Flow Plan by maintaining sales, stock, intake, and projected stock data at component level.
- Coordinate stock movements, transfers, and kitting requirements with Procurement, Logistics, and 3PL partners.
- Maintain accurate BOM data and support its migration into NetSuite, ensuring component information is complete.
- Support inventory analysis and supply-side decision-making by providing regular stock risk updates.
- Prepare data and follow up on actions from cross-functional meetings.
- Identify opportunities to improve reports, processes, and ways of working to enhance supply planning efficiency.
Requirements
- Previous experience in merchandise planning, inventory, supply chain, or a related analytical role is beneficial.
- Strong Excel skills, including formulas, pivot tables, and handling large datasets.
- High attention to detail and accuracy.
- Proactive, organised, and able to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Good communication skills, with the ability to follow up confidently with stakeholders.
Skills
- Excel
- Formulas
- Pivot tables
- Data analysis
- Inventory management
- Supply chain planning
- Communication
Location
- Holborn, London
Work Type
- Full-time
- Permanent
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Entry-level
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Analytics, or a related field is preferred but not essential.
Salary/Compensations
- £30,000 to £34,000 GBP per year
Benefits
- 30 days holiday + 8 UK bank holidays
- Pension contribution Scheme (5% employee, 3% employer)
- Private Medical Insurance (Vitality)
- Work from Abroad (one month per year)
- Discretionary Bonus Scheme
- Mental Health Support (Spill)
- Flexi-Fridays (finish early one Friday per month)
- Quarterly meetups, celebrations & socials (Olstar Events)
- Vibrant Office (Runway East, Bloomsbury)
About the Company
- Avenir Collective is building the future of beauty, personal care, and lifestyle brands.
- We are creating a new kind of consumer brand platform focused on trusted products, long-term value, and meaningful growth.
- We are looking for individuals excited by building brands, solving problems, and working collaboratively.
Equal Opportunity
- Avenir Collective is proud to be a disability-committed employer registered in the UK.
- We support candidates with disabilities through the interview stage if they meet the criteria.
- We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment.
