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Senior Demand & Merchandise Planner
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Demand PlanningMerchandise PlanningSales ForecastingASP Forecasting
📜 Description
- Validate category sales, volume, and ASP forecasts against run rates, promotional plans, and customer strategies.
- Challenge forecast assumptions and model sub-category and item-level sales, volume, ASP, mix, and margin.
- Improve weekly and daily forecast phasing for promotions, seasonal peaks, and key gifting deadlines.
- Build tools and models that improve forecast inputs, data integrity, and planning efficiency.
- Own B2B vendor forecasting and integrate it into the central S&OP process.
- Prepare variance and scenario reporting, support demand reviews, and partner with Supply Planning on capacity needs.
🛠️ Requirements
- Demand Planning, Merchandise Planning or Merchandising experience in a fast-paced environment like Retail, E-Commerce or FMCG
- Experience forecasting sales value and ASP, not just volume, and using category and product mix to give margin visibility
- Proven track record of managing item-level planning, category and product mix modelling, and promotional uplift analysis
- Hands-on experience challenging commercial, trading or marketing teams on forecast assumptions using clear data
- Advanced MS Excel or Google Sheets data modelling skills with complex multi-category and multi-country datasets
- Strong commercial mindset with the ability to manage defined processes independently
- Practical problem-solving approach that favours workable tools over complex theoretical models
Full job description
Make Your Mark as an Demand Planner at Storio group
About the role
Storio Group produces millions of personalised photo products every year across brands like Photobox, Hofmann, and Albelli. Our business is highly seasonal and promotional, and planning is how we stay ahead of it. Everything we sell is made to order. We turn sales data and commercial insight into forecasts of sales, volume and ASP that give the business sales and margin visibility and drive stock and production capacity decisions across Europe.
As Senior Demand & Merchandise Planner, you will be a core Subject Matter Expert in our rapidly developing S&OP function. Reporting to the Head of Demand Planning, you will bridge top-line commercial forecasts with item-level operational reality. You will validate B2C category sales, volume and ASP forecasts, own the sub-category and item mix beneath them, establish B2B forecasting, and improve forecast phasing across our peak cycles. This is a high-impact role where you will build quality into our planning process and support commercial and operational readiness.
How you embrace curiosity daily
Make your mark by taking on these core day-to-day responsibilities:
Validate and check Commercial & Marketing's monthly, weekly, and daily category top-line forecasts of sales, volume and ASP against run rates, promotional plans, and customer strategies
Challenge forecast assumptions constructively across key markets and products, including mix and ASP shifts, when inputs diverge from historical trends or operational reality
Own the detailed item planning process, splitting category forecasts into granular sub-category and item variant forecasts across sales, volume and ASP, providing item sales mix and margin visibility, and Operations with accurate production requirements
Decompose forecasts into their parts (baseline, commercial initiatives and new products), so each can be challenged and tracked
Drive continuous improvement in weekly and daily forecast phasing, reviewing and validating sales forecasts against promotional mechanics, seasonal uplift spikes, and Last Order Dates for key gifting events
Build pragmatic models and tools that help forecast owners submit higher-quality phasing inputs
Take end-to-end ownership of forecasting for B2B vendors, integrating these streams into the central S&OP process
How you make your mark
In this role, you will deliver real impact across our commercial and supply chain objectives
Support robust commercial consensus by bringing planning expertise to cross-functional partners
Validate and check promotional phasing directly to Last Order Dates to improve peak season operational readiness
Provide sales, volume, ASP and margin visibility through accurate, granular item forecasts aligned to category forecasts from Commercial & Marketing
Close unforecasted blind spots by building baseline forecasts for B2B channels
Prepare variance analysis and scenario reporting packs for monthly demand review meetings
Partner with Supply Planning so item-level forecast changes translate smoothly into capacity planning
Identify opportunities to refine planning spreadsheets and models to remove manual friction and improve data integrity
What you bring to the team
Demand Planning, Merchandise Planning or Merchandising experience in a fast-paced environment like Retail, E-Commerce or FMCG
Experience forecasting sales value and ASP, not just volume, and using category and product mix to give margin visibility
Proven track record of managing item-level planning, category and product mix modelling, and promotional uplift analysis
Hands-on experience challenging commercial, trading or marketing teams on forecast assumptions using clear data
Advanced MS Excel or Google Sheets data modelling skills with complex multi-category and multi-country datasets
Strong commercial mindset with the ability to manage defined processes independently
Practical problem-solving approach that favours workable tools over complex theoretical models
What sets you apart
Career experience with exposure to adjacent functions like Supply Planning, Trading, Marketing, or Finance
Background in seasonal, promotion-led, high-volume direct-to-consumer or multi-market businesses, along with experience using Demand or Merchandise Planning systems
Relevant formal education or degree in business, supply chain, or a related analytical field
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