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Forecasts and reorders that keep stock right.

Also called: Inventory Controller, Demand Planner, Stock Controller

From £3.50 an hour£3.50-17/hr

  • Logistics
  • E-commerce
  • Manufacturing & wholesale
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  • Works your hours
  • Nigeria hub, on London time or an hour ahead
  • Month to month
What your Inventory Planner gets doneSample day
  • Builds SKU-level forecasts from sales history, seasonalityDemand forecasting
  • Calculates reorder points, safety stock and order quantitiesReplenishment & purchase planning
  • Publishes a stockout risk list and days-of-cover reportStock health & allocation
  • Schedules cycle counts, review variancesStock accuracy & reconciliationDoing
In your tools
  • Shopify
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Excel with Copilot
  • Google Sheets with Gemini
  • ChatGPT
  • Claude

Pick the level. See the price.

£7an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
A local mid-level admin£16/hr
A tested Intermediate Inventory Planner£7/hr
At least 56% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Employer National Insurance, pension and on-costs would add to the local cost.Local pay at the same level, before on-costs and leave.

Owns replenishment for a category or catalogue and tunes forecasts for seasonality and promotions.

  • Weekly buy plan with draft POs and rationale
  • Safety stock and reorder point recalculation
  • Forecast accuracy report by product class

2-4 years in inventory planning or replenishment, with live responsibility for a category or a catalogue of roughly 500-1,500 SKUs.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management. Prices exclude VAT.

What you hand to your Inventory Planner

Tasks

  • Demand forecasting

    • Builds SKU-level forecasts from sales history, seasonality
    • Forecasts new products using comparable items
    • Measures forecast accuracy by class

  • Replenishment & purchase planning

    • Calculates reorder points, safety stock and order quantities
    • Produces a weekly or fortnightly buy plan
    • Weighs air versus sea freight
    • Tracks open PO ETAs against supplier confirmations

  • Stock health & allocation

    • Publishes a stockout risk list and days-of-cover report
    • Identifies overstocked, slow-moving and dead stock
    • Allocates stock between warehouses, Amazon FBA, 3PLs and stores

  • Stock accuracy & reconciliation

    • Schedules cycle counts, review variances
    • Reconciles the ERP or inventory system

  • Master data & planning parameters

    • Maintains item parameters across systems
    • Tracks actual supplier lead times

  • Reporting & S&OP support

    • Publishes a weekly inventory report
    • Joins planning meetings with sales, marketing and finance

Tested before you meet them

  1. Written business EnglishAll levels25 min
  2. Forecasting and reorder work sampleAll levels1.5 hrs
  3. Inventory mathematics testAll levels35 min
  4. Stock reconciliation exerciseAll levels60 min
  5. Spreadsheet and planning tool testAll levels40 min
  6. Stakeholder role-playIntermediate and up30 min

One score on every profileSample shown

85%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern Inventory Planner is £3.50 an hour, Intermediate £7, Expert £10.50 and Specialist £17, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month. Prices exclude VAT.

Demand forecasting, replenishment & purchase planning, stock health & allocation and stock accuracy & reconciliation, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Six practical tests, marked by a senior, including written business English, forecasting and reorder work sample and inventory mathematics test. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your Inventory Planner works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to United Kingdom clients is in Nigeria, on London time or an hour ahead.

Yes, where it helps. Your Inventory Planner works in the AI tools you already use. They use AI for first drafts and routine work, check every output, and follow your AI policy. You can ask for no AI on any task.

An Intermediate Inventory Planner owns replenishment for a category or catalogue and tunes forecasts for seasonality and promotions. An Expert Inventory Planner owns availability and cash outcomes across channels and leads forecast accuracy improvement. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every Inventory Planner is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as Inventory Planner and Cin7 Core, before you meet them.

In week one: access granted to the inventory system or ERP, planning tool, sales channels; current SKU list exported with supplier, lead time, MOQ, case pack; and promotion, launch and marketing calendar collected. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called Inventory Controller, Demand Planner and Stock Controller. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

Yes. You give them access in your own systems, and you can change or remove it at any time.

They get their own login in each of your systems, never a shared one. Any password that has to be shared goes through your own password manager, never email, chat, code or prompts.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Call us on +61 3 4421 6491, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away, any time.

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