Planning Lead

About Tutti Bambini

Tutti Bambini is a family-owned nursery furniture company founded over 30 years ago by Michael and Debra Samuel with the goal of supporting new mothers and fathers during their first steps into parenthood.

After years working in nursery retail, and as parents themselves, Michael and Debra realised that nursery furniture available on the market often didn’t offer the versatility, value, and safety that new parents needed for their little ones. Drawing on a background in technical design, and on their own parenting experiences, Michael and Debra created Tutti Bambini: a nursery furniture range combining elegance and beauty with innovation and practicality.

From its beginnings in a little London store, the Tutti Bambini brand has grown to become a feature in nurseries across the UK, and includes ranges of cots, cot beds, nursing chairs, highchairs, and more. Crafted to the highest standards of quality and safety, every piece of Tutti Bambini furniture is designed to be loved, and used, by families for years to come.

Tutti Bambini has been acquired by Heroes in 2023, and is now part of Heroes' family of brands.

About the role

We are looking for a Planning Lead to come in and partner with our commercial and wholesale teams, leading the monthly forecast process for demand alignment, and the demand planning for new products and new market launches.

Responsibilities

• Collaboration with the Wholesale team in order to interpret historical data to create a 12 month rolling forecast

• Capture inputs from the other business areas, consumer & competitor information, other external / internal trends and influences to incorporate them into the forecast.

• Lead the monthly process for Demand Alignment and Consensus, ensuring full process adherence by key stakeholders.

• Managing the demand planning of new products and new market launches, transitions and discontinuations through liaison with Supply Chain Internal teams, Wholesale Team, and the NPD/Expansion Team

• Define and align stock coverage parameters (including safety stock) with key stakeholders. Identifying the PO needed to ensure healthy stock coverage across all brands. (working within agreed min and max limits)

• Manage review meetings with brand management, and senior stakeholders to ensure alignment on stock projections.

• Collaborating with the Sourcing Team to place POs with suppliers

• Taking ownership when a planning issue arises, communicating to the relevant stakeholders to resolve

• Relationship and stakeholder management of key business areas such as retail, D2C, Amazon, Logistics, Freight and Sourcing.

• Providing a weekly warehouse and freight capacity forecast

• Develop and grow the level of sophistication in planning tools and process leveraging newly available tech where it makes sense and ensuring the broader business buy in to the process evolution.

About you

• Previous Planning Experience is essential (FMCG, or similar)

• Experience with ERP & planning software (Oracle NetSuite, SAP IBP/ APO, etc)

• Ability to quickly grasp complex concepts and draw conclusions from large sets of data

• Very analytical and data driven mentality

• Strong ability to leverage data and analyses to communicate and “tell stories”

• Excellent problem solving skills

• Strong self-learner mentality with a pragmatic approach to researching solutions before requesting help

• Comfortable with ambiguity

• Highly methodical and organised, with a high attention to detail

• Advanced Excel Knowledge

• Familiarity with GSuite

Location: we would like the person to be based in Tutti Bambini's London office in North Finchley / Whetstone.