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The Role Are you passionate about supply chain management and looking for an exciting opportunity to enhance your career? We are seeking a Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) Analyst to support our S&OP agenda for the Global Duty Free & Export (GDF&E) markets. As part of our team, you’ll play a crucial role in ensuring a seamless supply chain process, from forecasting to demand planning, and contribute to key operational projects.
Embark on a career journey with Imperial Brands PLC as an S&OP Analyst, where you’ll integrate into a vast, inclusive, and international team.
Here, collaboration is the cornerstone of our culture, one that deeply values consumer insights and drives innovation.
Principle Accountabilities Collaborate with cluster functions (e.
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Finance, Insights & Intelligence, Sales, Marketing, Legal) to collect and update forecasting assumptions/drivers and deliver to central forecasting team.
Ensure data collection and analysis are performed with the right level of accuracy, frequency, granularity.
Support Forecasting analysts with forecast review and provide input/guidance on required adjustments.
Support S&OP Analysts with preparation of Demand Review Meeting for GDF&E key markets to ensure sales forecasts are captured, challenged, and aligned between the different stakeholders.
Support Input preparation for S&OP Meeting (i.
., gaps, risks & opportunities, demand forecast update, deviation analysis), capture S&OP Meeting Actions/Outputs.
Support key GDF&E projects affecting the business portfolio (e.
., legal changes, production relocations, product standardizations, design changes, new product launches) and deliver required input to end to end Global Supply Chain central stakeholders (e.
., Production Planning, Inventory Management, Materials Planning & Purchasing).
Skills and Experience Relevant experience in Demand Planning or Supply Chain related roles.  Fluency in English is a must.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a global team.
Strong analytical skills and a good understanding of business/financial interrelationships (marketing/sales strategies, pricing, volumes, and cost structure).
Proficient user MS Office (particularly Excel).
Experience in SAP (R/3 particularly Material Management, Finance and APO) is desirable.
  What We Offer In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and many extras including generous holiday entitlement and hybrid/flexible working opportunities as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose.
Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.
Everyone Belongs Everyone belongs in Imperial.
We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation.
We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence.
We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants.
Please contact us at  to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.
About Us We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets.
An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by employees.
As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming.
Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work.
Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.  Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.