Demand Planning Manager - Maternity Cover 9-12 months FTC

At Joseph Joseph, we are driven by a simple yet powerful belief — that intelligent design has the ability to transform everyday living. We create distinctive, thoughtfully engineered products that not only solve real-world problems but also bring joy, beauty, and functionality to daily life.

Headquartered in London, we have grown into one of the world’s most admired houseware brands, with a presence in over 100 countries and partnerships with leading department stores, independent retailers, and a rapidly expanding e-commerce business.

We are looking for a strategic and collaborative Demand Planning Manager to join our London-based team on an interim basis. In this role, you will lead the development of robust, insight-driven demand forecasts and play a key role in driving cross-functional alignment through the S&OP process. You will work closely with stakeholders across the business to support planning, enable informed decision-making, and contribute to the continuous improvement of tools, systems, and processes that underpin our demand planning capability.

What you will be doing:

• Ensure the accurate development and timely delivery of demand forecasts that align with evolving business objectives, supporting decision-making across time horizons, markets, and organizational priorities.

• Translate commercial activity, promotions, and market trends into actionable demand insights.

• Ensuring effective meetings are scheduled and facilitated, achieving consensus forecasting with relevant cross-functional stakeholders. Challenge forecast assumptions constructively and drive accountability across commercial teams.

• Act as a subject matter expert for demand planning in cross-functional initiatives and projects, contributing strategic insights and technical expertise.

• Oversee product portfolio analysis, including lifecycle management, classification, and rationalization, making actionable recommendations to the wider business and maintaining data in relevant systems.

• Support the implementation of tools and systems which impact demand planning, ensuring successful integration, implementation, and usage.

• Support the continued development and embedding of the IBP/S&OP process, ensuring practical adoption across the business.

• Monitor and report on key performance indicators for the demand planning team.

• Ensure continuity and stability of the demand planning process during a key business period, maintaining strong stakeholder engagement and planning discipline.

What we need from you:

• Able to quickly understand complex global supply chain and commercial dynamics.

• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of forecasting processes within a short onboarding period.

• Experience operating effectively in fast-paced, changing environments with limited handover time.

• Previous experience leading, engaging and motivating demand planning teams.

• Excellent knowledge of forecasting fundamentals and application.

• Experience in consumer goods, retail, ecommerce, or omni-channel environments preferred.

• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively across all functions and levels within the organisation.

• Experience forecasting across high-SKU portfolios and international markets.

• Strong influencing skills with experience managing senior stakeholders across commercial and operational functions.”

• Ability to balance data-driven forecasting with commercial judgement.”

• Advanced Microsoft Excel user, proficient with Pivot Tables, Lookups, Dashboards, and large-scale data analysis and manipulation. (Experience with Power Query and VBA is highly desirable).

• Experience of using statistical demand planning software.

• Experience in using SAP S4 Hanna ERP system.

• Strong analytical and numerical skills with the ability to present complex data for business buy-in.

What you’ll get from us:

• Competitive salary and holiday allowance

• A pension contribution

• An exclusive staff discount

• Hybrid working – 3 days in office & 2 days from home and flex start/finish times

• Access to Perkbox

• Team Recognition scheme