About this role
At Certas Energy we’re keen to take a lead in the industry. We have a culture of strong safety and compliance principles, driven by our dedicated Safety F1rst and Doing the Right Thing (compliance) Initiative. Health and safety is paramount to our business ethos – it is fundamental to good business performance, and integral to long-term business success. Shape the Future of Fuel Supply at Certas Energy At Certas Energy , we're committed to keeping businesses, communities and industries moving. As the UK's largest independent fuel distributor, effective planning is critical to ensuring we meet customer demand, maintain supply security and deliver commercial success.
We're looking for a Commercial Planning Manager to take ownership of our end-to-end demand planning and forecasting process. This is a high-impact role that sits at the heart of the business, bringing together Commercial, Supply, Operations and Transport teams to create a single, accurate view of future demand. If you're a strategic thinker with strong commercial acumen, exceptional analytical skills and experience leading planning processes across complex operational environments, we'd love to hear from you. What You'll Be Doing As Commercial Planning Manager, you'll be responsible for developing and leading a robust forecasting and planning framework that supports business growth, supply security and operational efficiency.
Key responsibilities include
- Leading the end-to-end demand planning and forecasting process across all liquid fuel products and business units.
- Owning the consolidated demand forecast, ensuring alignment between sales activity, customer demand, transport capacity and supply commitments.
- Acting as the key link between Commercial, Supply, Operations and Transport teams, ensuring priorities remain aligned across the organisation.
- Establishing planning governance, forecasting standards and performance metrics to drive accountability and continuous improvement.
- Challenging assumptions and proactively improving forecast accuracy across the business.
- Managing planning activities around seasonal demand fluctuations, market volatility and peak trading periods.
- Identifying supply risks, contractual exposures and forecasting gaps, whilst developing effective mitigation plans.
- Delivering meaningful insight and recommendations to senior leadership to support commercial and operational decision-making.
- Working closely with Business Intelligence, Commercial teams and the Centre of Excellence to enhance planning methodologies and reporting capabilities.
- Maintaining strong supplier relationships through the delivery of timely and accurate demand forecasts.
- What We're Looking For Essential Significant experience within demand planning, commercial planning, forecasting or business performance management.
- Strong commercial awareness and an understanding of how supply, logistics, customer demand and commercial activity impact business performance.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional planning processes across multiple stakeholders.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to convert data into actionable business insight.
- Experience challenging constructively, influencing decisions and driving accountability.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including experience working with senior leaders.
- Advanced planning, forecasting and performance reporting capabilities.
Why Join Certas Energy?
- This is a unique opportunity to influence strategic decision-making across one of the UK's largest fuel distribution businesses.
- You'll play a key role in: Driving forecast accuracy and business performance.
- Protecting supply security and customer service levels.
- Supporting commercial growth and profitability.
- Building stronger alignment between Commercial, Supply, Operations and Transport functions.
- Shaping the future of planning and forecasting capability across the organisation.
Doing right by everyone People matter at Certas Energy. We’re an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste) religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background. We’re committed to doing right by our people, so we all feel engaged, motivated and proud to work for Certas Energy.