This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Join us as a Demand Planning Analyst

• Take on a role with great career development potential and harness your analytical talents
• We’ll look to you utilise your specialist knowledge and provide insightful analysis and understand the impact to the business
• You'll be providing analysis and recommendations for leadership teams, which will inform business decision-making and support our long term goals
• After successfully completing training you'll have the chance to work mainly from home, with a requirement to go into our Manchester or Liverpool office a minimum of once a week

What you'll do

As a Demand Planning Analyst, you’ll be using multiple sources of information, such as customer insights, colleague feedback, markets insights and relevant business operational data to provide analysis.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Financial and headcount reporting including monthly cost report checking, monthly forecasting, budget setting, cost control initiatives, business cases, provision of local analysis intelligence and commentary
• People planning, including capability, engagement and communications
• Engaging and influencing stakeholders to make sure that the best outcomes are delivered for the business
• Delivering recommendations and decisions required to improve business performance
• Reviewing relevant MI and providing ad-hoc analysis of data

The skills you'll need

We're looking for someone with experience of working in a support role. You'll need excellent knowledge of the customer business, key services and how it interacts with the rest of our business.

We'll also look to you to demonstrate:

• A broad background of working effectively with a variety of stakeholders at different levels, preferably in a resource planning environment
• A background in a resource planning role, with the ability to calculate future resource requirements using supply vs demand plans
• Experience of supporting the change process by completing impact assessments to size the resource requirement
• Proficiency in Excel, as well as strong analytical problem solving skills and the ability to use information to develop creative value add solutions
• An inquisitive mind with a keen eye for detail

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