Demand Analyst

Why Greencore?
Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we''re one of the UK''s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better.
As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we''re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately -4bn.
Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

What you''ll be doing
To identify, calculate and confirm accurate sales forecasts based on current market analysis that deliver the volume targets for production, material and labour requirements - responsible for most likely outcome of near-term demand assumptions and collaborative execution with commercial teams, customer teams and site planning teams.

• Utilise the available planning systems to align demand plans with forecasts based on current analysis of sales, availability, waste, weather, pricing, promotions, placement and events by using appropriate sensing and shaping methods.
• Manage risks in the plan and set and amend daily demand execution forecasts to achieve demand plan accuracy and improved stability.
• Share demand and sales forecasts with customers and/or commercial teams, and site planning teams, and work with them to ensure collaborative alignment and high-performance execution.
• Collaborate with customers, commercial teams and site planning teams to optimise sales return by reaching consensus on forecasts.
• Manage ongoing communication and demand execution controls with customers, commercial and site teams to ensure accurate exchange of information.
• Propose and implement continuous improvement in own area, including understanding, adopting and utilising consistent planning practices - plan quality measures, ABCXYZ analysis for volume and variation, demand plan accuracy, forecast bias, sales/availability/waste profiling, causal correlation, e.g., weather, pricing, promotions and placement, and understanding change in current market conditions to improve sales execution potential.

What we''re looking for

• Ideally educated to degree level with supporting experience of supply and demand processes
• Someone with good numeracy and analytical skills who enjoys working with people and teams on outcomes
• Experience of sales order processing and distribution planning is ideal: understanding customer importance is needed
• Experience of working closely with customers, managing customer expectations and service delivery is ideal
• Experience of working in a fast paced, growth industry or business
• Experience of working with computers, ideally demonstrating advance skill and capability. We''re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.
What you''ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career

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