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YOUR RE-ENTRY REPORT
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Your career is broader than planning. You understand customers, commercial growth, data and how a business turns demand into action.
Your experience is broader than your latest title. You combine customer and business-development experience with forecasting, systems, Power BI and operational decision-making — opening routes across commercial performance, business operations and strategic accounts.
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£37k+ · Northamptonshire · Progression · Salary · More meaning · Move away from nights · Unsure about a different direction
Demand forecasting · S&OP · Inventory optimisation · SAP · Blue Yonder · Power BI · Customer service · Business development · Account management
You have eight years of evidence across customers, growth, forecasting, systems, analysis and operational decision-making. Your next search should start from that capability mix — not from your most recent job title.
01 · YOUR OPTIONS
Career directions worth exploring.
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MORE TO EXPLORE
Other directions your experience could open up.
These are broader possibilities worth exploring. We have not put them through the same market checks as your main Re-entry directions, so treat them as ideas to test, not recommendations.
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02 · YOUR VALUE & MARKET
Your advantage is not one specialist skill. It is seeing the connection between customers, demand, data and operations.
You understand customers, commercial growth, data and operations. That combination lets you target roles where insight needs to turn into action, rather than staying inside one planning title.
The right job isn't necessarily the biggest job.
03 · YOUR EARNING POTENTIAL
Your £37k floor remains realistic across several routes. Current Northamptonshire evidence includes account-management roles around £40k–£50k and Business Analyst roles around £45k–£50k, while planning and reporting roles also overlap or exceed your target. Treat these as market signals rather than salary guarantees.
Current exact vacancy evidence includes an Account Manager role in Kettering at £40,000–£50,000 and a Business Analyst role in Corby at £45,000–£50,000. Both sit above your £37k floor, although each has role-specific experience requirements to assess before applying.
Your experience already proves more than your current job title may suggest.
04 · YOUR SEARCH PACK
Know exactly what to look for.
commercial performance · forecasting · business performance · Power BI · SAP · Blue Yonder · process improvement · business operations · customer growth · account management · stakeholder management · demand planning · inventory · S&OP
B2B distribution · Manufacturing · Logistics · FMCG · Retail · SaaS / technology · Engineering · Consumer goods · Professional services · Automotive
03 · WHAT'S CHANGED
Know what matters — and what you can ignore.
WORTH KNOWING
Your safest route is still planning, but it is not necessarily your best or only route. Current market evidence supports adjacent commercial, analytical and customer-facing roles above your £37k target.
WORTH REFRESHING
Quantify where your forecasts, dashboards, customer work or process changes affected revenue, inventory, service, efficiency or a business decision.
SAFE TO IGNORE
The idea that moving from account management into planning means you can no longer credibly target commercial roles. The planning experience can make your commercial profile stronger.
06 · YOUR MARKET EVIDENCE
Where your experience meets today's market.
Account management · Business development · Customer service · Demand forecasting · S&OP · Inventory optimisation · SAP · Blue Yonder · Power BI · KPI tracking · Root-cause analysis · Cross-functional stakeholder work · New-process adoption
Your biggest risk is presenting your experience as a sequence of unrelated titles. If your CV leads only with Demand Planner, employers can miss the commercial experience; if you apply to formal BA roles without translating process and systems evidence, they can miss the operational analysis. Your applications need to make the connecting capability visible.
SALARY
Positive. Your £37k floor is supported across multiple adjacent directions, not only supply-chain planning.
DEMAND
Current market evidence shows demand for combinations of stakeholder management, process improvement, ERP/business systems, Power BI, customer relationships, commercial awareness and analytical decision-making — a meaningful overlap with your experience.
COMPETITION
Instead of competing in one crowded title, spread the same evidence across several credible job families. The goal is not more applications; it is more markets where your particular combination is relevant.
04 · YOUR SMARTEST NEXT MOVE
Test the capability mix, not just the next rung on the planning ladder.
Search Commercial Analyst, Business Performance Analyst, Commercial Planning, Business Analyst, Process Analyst, Business Operations, Strategic Account Manager and Customer Operations alongside your planning alerts. Compare response rather than guessing which route will work.
05 · YOUR QUESTION
The question you wanted answered.
Do not compete only as a Demand Planner. Your strongest broader route is commercial planning/business performance, with credible tests into process and operations improvement and strategic account/customer operations.
LIVE OPPORTUNITIES
Roles worth investigating for your
Re-entry.
We checked current roles against your experience, priorities and the career directions in this report.
LIVE ROLES · VERIFIED BEFORE YOUR REPORT IS SENT
Stretch match · Business Process / Operations Improvement
Business Analyst
SOM-3 Recruitment
Corby, Northamptonshire
£45,000–£50,000
Permanent
The role combines process improvement, stakeholder work, business systems and data tools such as Power BI — all relevant to your broader capability set. It also asks for 3–5 years of formal Business Analyst experience, process modelling and Dynamics 365 Business Central, so treat this as a direction to test rather than a guaranteed fit.
View role →Strong crossover · Strategic Account / Customer Operations
Account Manager
Summit Recruiters
Kettering, North Northamptonshire
£40,000–£50,000 + commission
Full-time · Permanent · Mainly office-based · Occasional national travel
Your earlier account-management and business-development experience maps directly to customer relationships, account growth and commercial opportunities. Your later planning experience adds analytical and operational context. Construction/fit-out knowledge is advantageous rather than essential, but should still be checked against your background.
View role →09 · DO THIS THIS WEEK
Turn the report into movement.
1. Write down three examples where your analysis changed a business decision. 2. Quantify forecast, inventory, revenue, customer or process outcomes wherever possible. 3. Capture any process mapping, system change, testing, requirements or implementation work you have done. 4. Create alerts across commercial performance, business/process operations and strategic account roles. 5. Keep planning alerts running as a comparison group and track which route produces the strongest £37k+ response.
YOUR RE-ENTRY PLAN
Keep this bit.
Commercial Planning / Business Performance
A commercially experienced operator who can connect customer behaviour and growth with forecasting, data, systems and operational decisions.
You understand both the commercial reason behind demand and the operational work required to respond to it.
Quantified commercial outcomes · Forecast and inventory impact · Power BI decisions · Process/system change evidence · Account growth and retention outcomes