Senior Manager, Planning

Role Overview

• As the Planning Lead, work cross-functionally with Commercial, Marketing, Finance, Operations, Customer Supply Chain, and Executive Leadership to align demand, supply, inventory, and lifecycle decisions through the S&OP process.
• Challenge constructively, surface trade-offs clearly, and enable timely executive decision-making.
• Interface indirectly with manufacturing partners, 3PLs, and planning system vendors to inform capacity, constraints, and planning assumptions.

Requirements

• Advanced Excel / planning analytics capability
• Integrated Planning & S&OP; end-to-end S&OP / IBP design, cadence, and governance
• how to translate commercial strategy into executable supply plans
• Scenario planning (upside, downside, constraints) and risk quantification
• Financial & Commercial Acumen; Understanding of forecast bias, revenue vs volume dynamic and how planning decisions impact cash, COGS, and service
• Proven experience leading cross-functional planning discussions
• Line-management experience of planners or analysts
• Planning in environments with imperfect data and volatility
• Experience in fast-growth, SKU-complex, or multi-channel environments
• International / multi-region planning experience

Benefits

**Backstage Perks: **

• Make a real impact on our next act by joining AKT at an exciting stage of growth, following our recent USA, Australia and New Zealand launches.
• Flexible working: work from home, at our Oxford Circus office (which comes with gym access), or in co-working spaces across the UK. We’ll reimburse you if you prefer a co-working space over working from home.
• Monthly team days in London to connect with the AKT ensemble.
• Be part of a collective of creatives where the arts underpin everything we do.
• A funny, kind, and inclusive work environment — we are banter, but we get sh*t done.
• Allowance for products to give you the confidence to step onto the stage and perform.
• Intervals encouraged: 36 days holiday, including bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time roles)
• Pension contribution matching via salary sacrifice up to 5% of your salary.

Everybody is welcome

AKT London is for everyone. We believe that an inclusive work environment and a diverse, empowered team are key to achieving our mission. Our products are gender free and built for every BODY to help give them the confidence to step onto their stage – whatever that may be – and PERFORM. Our work environment is no different.

AKT London is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We commit to a focused and sustained action to dismantle racist systems, policies, practices, and ideologies within ourselves and our networks. We have zero tolerance for intolerance. With our Founders belonging to a minority community, we commit to difference and diversity from the beginning, and we know what a rich and creative work environment can cultivate.

Anybody and everybody, to whoever is reading: we welcome you!

If you're a driven and hungry professional with a passion for beauty and sustainability, and you're ready to make a significant impact in a fast-growing start-up, we'd love to hear from you. Join us in redefining personal care while looking after our planet!