Planning Lead

About Trunki

At Trunki, we're a playful team committed to revolutionising travel for families, making every journey as delightful as the destination itself. The brand creates durable, imaginative travel gear that appeals to children's love for adventure. Since 2006, Trunki's innovative designs, including the UK-made Trunki ride-on suitcase, have garnered over 100 accolades globally and earned rave reviews from families. With rigorous testing for safety and a wealth of positive press, Trunki is loved by parents and kids worldwide, making travel a breeze. Trunki joined the Heroes family of brands in 2023.

About the role

Heroes is looking for a talented Demand & Supply Planner. This role sits within the Supply Chain Department and reports to the Head of S&OP.

The candidate will lead all planning elements for defined segments of Heroes business, managing demand planning and supply planning, as well as material requirement planning for some components for finished goods assembly.

The Planner is responsible for maintaining the forecast and for managing supply of finished goods & material requirements.

The Senior Planner role will also take a lead in driving the integration of planning processes from acquired businesses into Hero’s

Responsibilities

• Collaboration with the Brand Management team in order to interpret historical data to create a 12 month rolling forecast.

• Capture inputs from the other business areas, consumer & competitor information, other external / internal trends and influences to incorporate them into the forecast.

• Lead the monthly process for Demand Alignment and Consensus, ensuring full process adherence by key stakeholders.

• Managing the demand planning of new products and new market launches, transitions and discontinuations through liaison with Supply Chain Internal teams, Brand Management Team, and the NPD Team.

• Monthly Analysis of the stock coverage with the forecast and key information from other team. Identifying the PO needed to ensure healthy stock coverage across all brands.

• Manage review meetings with brand management, and senior stakeholders to ensure alignment on stock projections.

• Manage the safety stock per product, in order to protect availability but keeping in mind flexibility.

• Collaborating with the Sourcing Team to place POs with suppliersTaking ownership when a planning issue arises, communicating to the relevant stakeholders to resolve.

• Relationship and stakeholder management of key business areas such as retail, logistic, freight, sourcing and the investment team.

• Providing a weekly warehouse and freight capacity forecast

Our benefits

• Hybrid working - 3 days per week in office
• 25 days holiday
• Public holidays
• Friday afternoons off in August