Stock Planner

Stock Planner | Tamworth - Hybrid (2 days) | Competitive Salary + Benefits About the Role

As a Stock Planner, you’ll help ensure the right products are available at the right time. You’ll forecast demand, manage stock levels and coordinate supply planning across key product categories, helping to reduce stock-outs, avoid excess inventory and support customer satisfaction and profitable growth across the Moonpig Group.

Key Responsibilities

• Forecast demand and create line-level forecasts by week, adjusting for seasonality and promotional activity.
• Monitor inventory KPIs, including stock turns, weeks of cover and availability.
• Own the stock plan for your category, including OTB budgets and supply assumptions.
• Identify slow-moving or excess inventory and create action plans with buying and merchandising teams.
• Maintain supplier relationships to reduce lead times and support delivery commitments.
• Coordinate with warehousing and logistics to ensure accurate and timely stock movement.
• Partner with merchandising, operations and finance to align stock decisions with wider business strategies.
• Support seasonal stock planning and post-season consolidation to optimise availability and minimise waste.
• Build and maintain tools and reports that track forecast accuracy and inventory health.
• Drive continuous improvement in forecasting, inventory control and reporting processes.
• Success in this role will be measured through forecast accuracy, stock availability and service levels, reduction in obsolete and excess stock, timely and accurate reporting, and the impact of promotional and clearance strategies on stock health.

About You

• You have 2+ years’ experience in stock or inventory planning, range planning or merchandising.
• You have strong analytical skills and can work confidently with large datasets.
• You have advanced Excel skills and are comfortable using ERP or stock planning systems.
• You can communicate and influence across multiple stakeholders, including suppliers.
• You are highly organised and able to manage multiple product categories under time constraints.
• A degree or professional qualification in supply chain, business, mathematics or a related field would be useful.
• You’re familiar with replenishment and distribution strategies in retail or e-commerce, and may have experience planning seasonal and promotional cycles or using system-driven demand planning tools.

Interview Process

1st stage - 20-30 min call with recruiter (Virtual)

2nd stage - 30-45 mins call with hiring manager (In person)

3rd stage - 30-45 mins with key stakeholder (Virtual)

Final stage - 30 min Informal chat with COO (Virtual)

Our process may vary depending on role and availability. We keep candidates informed of any changes.