Inventory Planning Manager

Overview

In this role you optimize convenience retail forecasting and replenishment across Shell UK’s company-owned network. You will own inventory health, available stock, and replenishment performance, shaping governance and turning data insights into actionable actions to improve customer experience and profitability. You’ll lead RELEX-driven planning, balancing sales growth with waste reduction and working capital. This is a cross-functional, data-led position focused on delivering measurable availability and efficiency gains.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive starting salary
• annual performance-related salary increase
• paid parental leave
• diversity and inclusion
• wide training and development programmes
• values-led culture

Responsibilities

• Monitor RELEX forecasts, replenishment recommendations and exception alerts to identify risks and opportunities across the network
• Take timely action on demand, supply and inventory exceptions to maximise business value
• Review and optimise replenishment parameters (lead times, order quantities, safety stock, etc.)
• Analyse demand patterns, seasonality, promotions and local events to improve forecast quality
• Partner with Category Management for launches, delists, promotions with robust stock planning
• Work with suppliers and distributors to resolve service issues and mitigate availability risks
• Identify root causes of recurring exceptions and implement process/data improvements
• Develop and maintain SOPs, planning playbooks and governance for RELEX-enabled forecasting
• Provide clear performance insights on availability, forecast accuracy, service level, waste and exception volumes
• Champion a data-led, exception-based planning approach to scale the planning model
• Shape planning governance and ensure cross-functional alignment across functions

Key requirements

• Experience in supply planning, demand forecasting, replenishment or inventory management in FMCG/convenience/multi-site environments
• Strong analytical capability to interpret data and translate insight into action
• Experience with forecasting/replenishment systems; RELEX experience is advantageous
• Good understanding of availability, forecast accuracy, stock cover, waste and supplier service measures
• Ability to work cross-functionally with commercial, category, operations, supply chain, IT and external partners
• Confidence to shape new processes and lead through ambiguity in new planning capability implementations
• Strong communication skills to explain complex issues simply
• High attention to detail, numeracy and competence in Excel and data visualization tools
• Proactive continuous improvement mindset for fast-paced environments

• Cross-functional collaboration
• Clear communication
• Analytical thinking
• RELEX forecasting and replenishment
• Data analysis and visualization
• Excel and reporting tools

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