Supply and Demand Planner - 12 month FTC

Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 7 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky and NOW a truly exciting and inclusive place to work. 

Please, note this is a 12 month fixed-term contract position.

Understand Sky’s business and deliver the best possible demand forecast, supply plan and inventory levels, whilst managing product lifecycles and exciting new launches in 2024 and 2025.

This role also manages the commercial and contractual interactions for the sourcing of mobile products with key mobile manufacturers and distributors including optimising product commercials and securing promotional funding.

This is a hands-on role, working with numerous stakeholders, right across Sky and external partners. You will provide the strategic thinking and product expertise to help drive our ambitious business plans.
 

As a member of the Planning team within Supply Chain, What you'll do: 

• Be commercially responsible and accountable for the sourcing and planning of mobile products across mobile manufacturers and distributors.

• Drive optimal inventory levels to support demand forecasts.

• Work closely with Commercial and Trading teams to deliver highly accurate demand forecast.

• Be a key point of contact in Ireland to support stronger stakeholder management across Commercial, Trading, Finance and Group Planning teams on all things with the portfolio.

• Creation of the supply plan and the raising of POs and management of inbound deliveries with suppliers

• Build great relationships and influence across the business and with suppliers to ensure we have the best information at the right time to ensure the appropriate stock levels to maximise availability but minimise cash tied up in stock and obsolescence risk

• Manage suppliers to performance and contractual arrangements and, if required, take the necessary action should suppliers fail to meet performance and contractual obligations.

• Identify potential risks to inventory proactively, build and deploy mitigation plans, weigh up options and take decisions which will benefit the business, clearly communicate risks in a timely fashion to all relevant stakeholders.

• Plan brilliant product lifecycle management, ensuring successful on time product launches, and well-planned end of life of products without significant clearance costs.

• Deliver insights and trends from our numbers to support the planning cycles and right decisions at the right time.

• Pro-actively drive improvements to processes as well as supporting bigger Sky change.

• Ensure the right stock is in the right place at the right time to deliver to customers and Shops 

What you'll bring:

• Strong commercial, numerical and analytical nature with the ability to tell a story from the numbers.

• Demand forecasting & supply planning experience.

• Experience of managing challenging 3rd parties with differing objectives to Sky’s KPIs and SLAs and, where necessary, having difficult conversations

• FMCG, Technology or Telco supply chain industry experience.

• High level of Excel and PowerPoint competency

• Excellent communicator who can summarise data in a way appropriate for the audience.

• Able to build credible relationships and collaborate to achieve the right outcomes for Sky.

• Logical thinker who can interpret sales and marketing plans and commentary into tangible impacts to supply chain.

• Self-starter who is comfortable having full accountability for supply and demand planning a part of Sky’s portfolio

• Proven track record of delivering KPIs and driving continuous improvement 

CSCO-Supply Chain

Supply Chain source and deliver over 20 million items a year to our customers, our engineers, our Technology colleagues who manage the infrastructure that supports our products and services, and to our Retail estate.  We are a diverse group of employees that cover product sourcing / manufacturing, demand forecasting, stock management, warehousing, and distribution, through to customer returns, repairs and recycling of engineer and customer waste. And we do it for all the items which support our broadband, TV (Glass and Stream), Sky Mobile, Sky Protect and Now businesses through our great suppliers.  

The Rewards:
There's a reason people can't stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:

• Sky Now TV package for free 

• A generous pension package 

• Private healthcare 

• Discounts for up to 800 high street and specialist
  retailers  

How you'll work:
We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.

We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.

Your office base:
Dublin
Our striking Ireland HQ has an A-list location on Burlington Road, walking distance from central Dublin. Grand Canal Dock and Pearse train stations are both around 1.5km away, and we’re a short stroll from the buses of Baggot Street, Leeson Street and Waterloo Road. There’s plenty of parking for cyclists and drivers, too.

Inclusion:
We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we’ve been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we’ve committed £30million to support the fight against racial injustice. We’ve also set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation.

At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we're happy to discuss flexible working.

And we'll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.