# Inventory Planning Manager

**Company**: Shell
**Location**: London
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Energy

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## Description

Join Shell UK Mobility & Convenience as an Inventory Planning Manager, leading the optimisation of forecasting and replenishment capability through the RELEX platform.

You will be accountable for managing product forecast exceptions to improve convenience retail product availability, inventory health, and order proposal replenishment performance across the Shell UK convenience retail network.

**Responsibilities:**

- Own availability and replenishment performance across the network, identifying risks to customer availability, lost sales, and commercial delivery.

- Balance availability with stock cover, waste, and working capital by maintaining effective replenishment parameters.

- Lead the business use, governance, and continuous improvement of Relex forecasting and replenishment processes.

- Establish and lead daily and weekly exception-management routines.

- Partner with Category Management, Supply Chain, and Operations to ensure range changes, promotions, and new product launches are supported by robust planning assumptions and stock execution routines.

- Shape and embed the planning operating model, including parameter governance and performance reviews.

- Identify recurring root causes and drive sustainable fixes that reduce manual workarounds.

- Influence internal teams, suppliers, wholesalers, and distribution partners to resolve service issues and improve supply reliability.

**Requirements:**

- Experience in supply planning, demand forecasting, replenishment, inventory management, or supply chain operations.

- Strong analytical capability and experience working with forecasting, replenishment, or supply chain planning systems.

- Good understanding of availability, forecast accuracy, stock cover, waste, supplier service, and inventory optimisation measures.

- Ability to work cross-functionally and communicate complex planning issues simply.

**What we offer:**

- Continuously grow transferable skills.

- Work at the forefront of technology and trends.

- Collaborate with experienced colleagues.

- Achieve balance in a values-led culture.

- Competitive starting salary and annual performance-related salary increase.

## Skills

### Required
- forecasting
- replenishment
- inventory management
- supply chain operations
- analytical skills
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- Relex experience

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