Morgan McKinley is partnering with a expanding, global FMCG organisation to appoint a Senior Demand Planner in Dublin.
This is a high-impact role where demand planning excellence is critical to supporting commercial expansion, product innovation, and supply chain optimisation. The Senior Demand Planner will be responsible for leading SKU-level demand forecasting and playing a key role in shaping supply, inventory, and network planning strategy through advanced analytics, modelling, and stakeholder leadership.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Own and lead the end-to-end demand forecasting process across brands, markets, and channels
- Develop statistically driven forecasting models combined with commercial intelligence and market insights
- Lead demand review meetings and challenge inputs to ensure realistic, unbiased forecasts
- Integrate new product launches, promotions, portfolio changes, and discontinuations into forecasts
- Drive forecast accuracy and bias improvement initiatives across regions
- Play a key leadership role in monthly S&OP / IBP cycles
- Provide scenario modelling and risk/opportunity analysis to senior leadership
- Translate demand signals into strategic supply and capacity planning assumptions
- Analyse demand trends to support production, distribution, and network optimisation decisions
- Monitor inventory performance vs target coverage and service levels
- Provide forecast inputs to support procurement and supplier planning
- Lead root cause analysis for forecast errors and implement corrective actions
- Drive demand planning process improvements, automation, and system enhancements
Key Requirements:
- 5+ years experience in demand planning, supply planning, or integrated business planning within FMCG
- Strong experience working in fast-growth, complex, multi-SKU environments
- Advanced forecasting and statistical modelling capability
- Advanced Excel and data analysis skills; Power BI or similar analytics tools advantageous
- Strong commercial acumen and understanding of financial impacts of demand decisions
