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# Demand Forecasting Product Owner

- **Company:** RAC Motoring Services
- **Location:** Walsall, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Information Engineering, Data Structures, Model Validation
- **Published:** August 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.co.uk/job/gb70668505f3d1ac6eb58b1f0778303bdf/eaa

## About the Role

* Deep specialist knowledge of forecasting, timeseries modelling, statistical inference, and model evaluation.

 * Experience of applying advanced techniques to commercial decision making.

 * Strong understanding of data engineering, data structures, and data quality principles.

Leadership & influence

 * Exceptional communication skills - able to turn complexity into clear, compelling insight.

 * A strong product ownership mindset, balancing prioritisation, pace, and outcomes.

Delivery & ownership

 * A track record of delivering material improvements to forecasting models or analytical products.

 * Comfortable operating at pace while balancing short term fixes and long term capability uplift.

## Description

RAC are on the lookout for a Demand Forecasting Product Owner who will directly shape operational performance, financial planning, and executive decision making. You will sit at the heart of the organisation, bringing forecasting authority & leadership, and executive influence to a forecasting capability trusted by SLT, the Executive Committee, and the CEO.
As Demand Forecasting Product Owner, you will lead a critical capability at the heart of a high volume, fastmoving organisation. The forecasts you own determine how the business plans, how it deploys resources, how it protects margin, and most importantly how we consistently meet customer demand.
You'll lead a team of specialists and act as the bridge between Data Science and Operations, ensuring forecasts are not only methodologically robust, but transparent, actionable, and truly decision ready.
Based from our Bescot or Bristol site - this is a hybrid working role.
What you'll do

 * Own and continuously evolve the Group Operational Forecast, ensuring accuracy, credibility, resilience, and real operational value.

 * Lead a Forecasting Improvement Programme, delivering rapid, measurable gains in accuracy, stability, and transparency.

 * Provide clear, confident weekly narrative and insight to the Executive Team and CEO, explaining movements, risks, and required actions.

 * Act as the day-to-day conduit between Data Science and Operations, translating complex model behaviour into operational insight.

 * Own the forecasting product roadmap, prioritising sprint-based enhancements with Data Science, Technology, and Operations teams.

 * Establish robust model governance, including explainability, diagnostics, validation, stress testing, and change control.

 * Align short-, medium-, and long-term forecasts, creating a single, coherent forecasting story across the organisation.

 * Strengthen data quality, controls, and end to end forecasting processes, reducing manual intervention and increasing trust.

 * Influence and challenge at a senior level, ensuring forecasting is recognised as a strategic capability, not a technical process.

 * Lead, coach, and develop a high performing team of forecasting specialists.