SAP Sales & Operations Planner

Working across Sales, Commercial, Operations, Production Planning, Procurement and Customer Service, you’ll lead the development of integrated SAP planning processes that improve forecast accuracy, optimise inventory and enhance customer service. You’ll champion SAP as the business’s single source of truth, replacing manual spreadsheet-based processes with efficient, data-driven planning solutions.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a real impact by driving continuous improvement, influencing business-wide change and helping shape the future of our Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) capability., * Lead and continuously improve SAP-based Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) processes across the business.

• Partner with Sales and Commercial teams to understand customer demand, market trends and promotional activity, translating these into effective operational plans.
• Facilitate regular S&OP reviews to ensure alignment between demand, supply, production capacity and inventory.
• Optimise SAP functionality by reducing manual reporting, spreadsheets and offline planning activities.
• Develop SAP dashboards and reporting tools that provide meaningful commercial insight and support decision making.
• Champion SAP as the single source of truth for planning, inventory and operational reporting.
• Support SAP master data governance, ensuring high standards of data accuracy, integrity and compliance.
• Analyse inventory performance and work with Procurement and Production Planning to optimise stock levels while maintaining customer service.
• Identify supply risks and coordinate proactive mitigation plans across the business.
• Support new product introductions by ensuring planning parameters and SAP master data are accurate and complete.
• Produce KPIs and reporting on forecast accuracy, inventory performance, SAP utilisation and planning effectiveness.
• Train and coach users to maximise SAP capability and encourage best practice.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that simplify processes, improve collaboration and increase business efficiency.

We’re looking for an experienced SAP Sales & Operations Planner to play a key role in transforming the way we plan, forecast, and drive strategic business outcomes., You’ll be an experienced SAP planning professional who enjoys improving business processes, working collaboratively across multiple departments and using data to influence commercial decisions., * Proven experience using SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA within a planning or supply chain environment.

• Experience in Demand Planning, Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), Supply Chain Planning or Master Data Management.
• Strong knowledge of forecasting methodologies, MRP, inventory management and end-to-end supply chain processes.
• Working knowledge of SAP MM, PP and SD modules.
• Experience improving planning processes and reducing reliance on spreadsheet-based planning.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to turn complex data into actionable business insight.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence and challenge existing ways of working.
• Excellent organisational, project and change management skills.
• A proactive, collaborative and solutions-focused approach with a passion for continuous improvement.

Experience within a manufacturing or distribution environment, along with involvement in SAP implementation or business process improvement projects, would be highly advantageous.

If you’re looking for a role where you can influence business performance, drive operational excellence and help shape the future of planning through SAP, we’d love to hear from you.

• Competitive Salary
• 31 days holiday
• Pension Scheme/ Salary Sacrifice
• Employee discount hub
• Refer-a-friend
• Cycle to work scheme

https://www.bsw.co.uk/

BSW Group is the largest timber and forestry business in the UK, with operating divisions spanning the whole supply chain, from tree nurseries and woodland management to saw milling and pallets.

We market 35 million saplings annually through the country’s leading commercial tree nursery, have planted a billion trees through Tilhill Forestry, supply sustainable timber products to an array of industries as BSW Timber, and manufacture millions of pallets a year as Scott Pallets. We work to keep industry moving and aim to be the most technically advanced timber business in the country.

BSW operates as a collection of experts - an interconnected circle, where everyone and everything works together, allowing the business to constantly innovate as our people thrive.

With an ethos to use everything and waste nothing, we leverage technology and cutting-edge practices to supply the diverse demands of the UK, helping to build sustainable worlds.

Think you have what it takes? If so, we want to hear from you.