Demand Planning Assistant (FMCG) practice interview
Sales forecasting, demand data, promotion uplifts, stock risks and clear planning updates for FMCG products. Practise the 5 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- Junior
- 15 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
This interview tests how you turn sales information into a practical short-term demand view for FMCG products. The panel wants careful analysis, sensible assumptions and early communication when the numbers point to a shortage or excess stock.
How to prepare
- Practise cleaning a small sales dataset and calculating simple averages, trends and promotion uplifts in Excel.
- Review how seasonality, distribution changes, pricing and promotions can affect an FMCG forecast.
- Prepare an example of finding an error or unusual value in a dataset and correcting it.
- Think through how you would flag a likely shortage without presenting an uncertain forecast as a fact.
Common mistakes
- Treating a promotion spike as normal demand without checking its cause.
- Changing a forecast without recording the assumption behind the change.
- Focusing on spreadsheet formulas while ignoring the stock decision the forecast supports.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
5 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 4 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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