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About the Role
As a Demand Planner for Speedo, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the right product is in the right place at the right time, delivering outstanding availability for our customers while achieving ambitious sales, margin and inventory targets. You will lead demand reviews, challenge and refine forecasts, champion core ranges, and balance stock investment with growth opportunities. Through data-driven decision making and strong cross-functional collaboration, you will help drive commercial performance and shape the success of our brands.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to strategically plan category and product type volumes based on growth plans, historical data, and market strategies.
- Develop pre-season forecasts critical for vendor and material planning, working closely with Regional Market Merchandising and Commercial teams.
- Lead demand reviews, confidently analysing and responding to changes in current and future demand, while adeptly challenging forecast robustness.
- Prepare transparent monthly buy summaries, ensuring clear visibility of proposed spending across units, categories, and customer mix.
- Manage the dynamic buy calendar, allowing flexibility while ensuring thorough checks before purchase order management.
- Drive our core business through maintaining inventory stability and optimising sales conversion.
- Collaborate with Commercial and Market Merch teams to effectively allocate stock investments and ensure in-season/yearly sales conversion.
- Monitor orderbook movements, collaborate with Commercial teams and Customer Operations to adapt plans as necessary.
- Monitor the trading funnel and make recommendations for markdown and clearance which drive sales, margin and protect cash and stock health.
Requirements
- Ability to analyse sales data, trends and market research to make informed decisions and inventory levels, pricing and assortment planning.
- Proficiency in working with numbers, calculations and understanding financial metrics like margin, turnover and forecasting.
- Clear and collaborative communication skills.
- Familiarity with merchandising software, inventory management systems, and data analysis tools.
- Understanding of market trends and consumer behaviour.
- Attention to detail and a proactive approach to problem solving.
- Willingness to travel to other sites for sales launches or critical stage gate meetings.
- This vacancy is a newly created role as part of organisational changes.
- Final appointment will depend upon the outcome of consultation processes and affected employees will have priority for consideration.
Skills
- Excel
- Power BI
- AI tools
Location
- Office
Work Type
- Hybrid working
- Flexible start and finish times
Experience Level
- Demand Planner
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus
- Generous holiday allowance
- Product discounts
- Sample sales
- Enhanced family-friendly policies
- Healthcare support
- Gym and fitness discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Electric car scheme
About the Company
- Pentland Brands is a global family business behind some of the world’s most iconic active and lifestyle brands.
- We bring integrity, energy and ambition to our work, setting high standards and striving to deliver great outcomes without ego.
- Speedo is one of the world’s most iconic swimwear brands, built on a heritage of innovation, performance and a lifelong love of swimming.
- From elite competition to everyday fitness, leisure and learning, Speedo creates product for every type of swimmer.
- It is a brand trusted in the water because it understands what matters: fit, movement, comfort, durability, confidence and performance.
- Joining Speedo means becoming part of a team that cares deeply about helping people feel at home in the water, whether they are chasing a personal best, building confidence, training regularly or discovering the joy of swimming for the first time.