Do you turn data into insight and enjoy collaborating cross‑functionally around the future demand signal of a market‑leading business?
You’ll play a key role in shaping demand plans that support decision‑making across Arla – combining data, commercial understanding and stakeholder engagement to help the business make confident decisions across the planning horizon.
How You Will Make an Impact
You will play a key role in building the demand plan for your area, partnering with Sales, Category, Supply Chain and wider Planning teams to create robust, insight‑led forecasts that drive decisions and processes across the business. You’ll play a leading role in the S&OP process for your area, manage NPD/promotions/events, and use SAP IBP and exception‑based analytics to continuously improve forecast quality and business performance.
- Provide rolling yearly, weekly and daily demand forecasts by SKU, customer and despatch site – enabling strong cross‑functional decision making.
- Build robust SAP IBP forecasts, maintain cleaned history and apply seasonality, trends and business insight to create the best possible view of future demand.
- Play a leading role in the S&OP process for your area; monitor forecast accuracy, bias and other key KPIs, identifying opportunities to improve forecast quality and planning performance.
- Build strong relationships across Sales, Category, Supply Chain and Planning teams, aligning stakeholders around forecast assumptions, risks and opportunities.
- Support the successful planning and execution of NPD, promotions, seasonal events and other key business initiatives, helping ensure plans are understood, aligned and delivered.
- Monitor demand signals and support S&OE activities, adjusting forecasts where required, escalating risks and opportunities, and continuously improving ways of working and system capability.
This role sits within the Demand Planning team at our Leeds head office and reports to the Head of Demand Planning.
What Will Make You Successful
You will bring a solid understanding of demand management and collaborative forecasting, combining strong analytical capability with the ability to communicate clearly, influence stakeholders and translate data into actionable insight. You will be comfortable working with large data sets and planning systems while also building trust across Sales, Planning and Logistics teams.
You will make sound judgements under pressure, challenge assumptions constructively, and thrive in an SAP IBP‑led, exception‑based environment. You understand that successful demand planning is about more than producing a forecast – it’s about understanding the drivers behind demand, building confidence in the plan and helping the business make better decisions.
Personally, you will be a proactive, relationship‑driven planner who seeks continuous improvement, enjoys solving problems and is motivated to make an impact. We work closely together and promise you a steep learning curve, meaningful responsibility and colleagues who will cheer, support and challenge you every day.
What Do We Offer?
You’ll join a farmer‑owned market leader with a collaborative culture and strong commitment to development, making things better for our customers, the farmers who own us and the whole world.
Would You Like to Join Us?
Applications close on 10th July 2026. Please apply as soon as possible as we review applications on a continuous basis and may close early if we find the right candidate. For questions, please contact OLIBU.
Shape the Future of Dairy
Arla is a global leader in the dairy industry, committed to enabling good food choices that make life better, providing people with natural, sustainable nourishment, while taking care at every step to ensure Arla is a choice they can feel good about. If you are looking to shape the future with an ambitious global cooperative that truly cares about your growth, where everyone feels valued and empowered, and collaboration is the core of culture, Arla is a choice you can feel good about.
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