As part of the Supply Planning Europe team, the Supply Planning Manager you will analyze and manage the coordination of the flow of products co-packed internally and warehoused both internally and externally for their category.

Assessing key metrics including customer service level, inventories, lead times, and distribution related metrics. Additionally, you will bring a special attention to effects of product launches, sales forecasts, competitive information, and market conditions to ensure our service/inventory/cost is optimized in all European locations (50 countries, 9 DCs, 1 co-packing center).

• Work in close relationship with the Regional Planning Director, Manufacturing, Commercial and Demand Planners and end-to-end performance teams to continuously align on processes and drive end-to-end initiatives to mitigate excess inventory while maintaining or improving service levels. Review KPIs and identify improvements in process and performance.
• Support IBP E2E Planning process and ensure consistency and standardization to support the correct execution by the planning team of critical planning processes, starting with the implementation of Supply Review Meetings, Inventory projection, production attainment, airfreight validation workflow
• Identify challenges and pain points and support add-hoc initiatives to resolve them with the CoE and local business teams.
• Actively participates in Regional IBP meetings and where appropriate Global IBP meetings to ensure that Global targets are taken into account by all functions
• Maintain corporate visibility to the overall regional performance and inventory, including finished goods, bulk, WIP, components, and raw materials, using Global reporting tools
• Monitor inactive, excess, and overstock (SLOB) inventory and undertakes actions to achieve its reduction and prevention targets; ensure proper root cause analysis and corrective actions of excess.
• Align with our main co-packing center to optimize the capacity utilization (anticipation, load-levelling…)
• Check inventory deployment across the regional network of storage locations. Ensure accuracy of plans within regions, based on Global best practices and tools
• Determine appropriate external inventory dispositions, based on customer-supplier contracts regarding excess and obsolete products.
• Set capability and performance targets for your planning team members. Hire, lead, and develop direct reports.

QUALIFICATIONS

• You have a Master in Supply Chain or related field
• You have 5+ years of experience within demand or supply planning function within a fast-paced environment, familiar with S&OP / IBP processes and planning tools
• You are fluent in English
• You have experience with interacting in a complex, cross-functional, matrix and multicultural environment
• You have demonstrated strong analytical skills and are comfortable in managing lots of data from multiple sources
• You’d describe yourself as reliable, curious, proactive, problem solver. Detail oriented as well as with a strategic view
• Effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
• You are team player with a high customer focus. Can quickly find common ground and solve problems around peers; can represent his/her own interests and yet be fair to other groups; can solve problems with peers with a minimum of noise; is seen as a team player and is cooperative; easily gains trust and support of peers; encourages collaboration.
• You have great communication skills that allows you to collaborate, educate and influence people from different backgrounds
• Your previous experience in FMCG will be a plus

BIC World is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strongly commit to hiring people with different backgrounds and experiences to help us build better products, make better decisions, and better serve our customers. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status, or similar characteristics. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.

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