Job role

You will be responsible for all aspects of the supply Chain, including developing relationship with Production, Process and Store.  This role requires someone to be able to understand the Supply Chain within a manufacturing environment. Demand planning is a large part of this role. You will also need to develop strong relationships with the departments to enable you to challenge them to achieve their KPI (service level / wastage).

The main areas of responsibilities:

• Factory stock management and review of the rules behind the security stock
• Put in place action plan resolving service and waste level issues
• Be in charge of analysis for the business, and reach conclusions so we can use to improve our process/planning
• Help to support and manage seasonal uplifts i.e. Easter, Christmas, production promotions
• Product forecasting and stock control
• Supply timely information to departments on Production and Process requirements.

Candidate Profile

The successful candidate will have experience of working in a similar role and therefore will be aware of the expectation to be professionally mature and be able to demonstrate the ability to influence, convince and motivate others within the business and within retailer partners

They should be commercially aware with a very real understanding of the personal attributes that are required to succeed in this position to include, tenacity, working to challenging deadlines and in a changing environment with the ability to problem solve and bring thought out and creative solutions using limited resources.

The individual will be highly analytical accompanied by a simple and impassioned communication style.

Background

• Analytical because it’s a requirement for forecasting and study raw data from our system or the retailer to foresee the tendencies or explain the problems.
• A commercial thinker , able to communicate with customers and create  good relationship is a key to success.
• Able to have good common sense as Supply chain is mathematics applied to common sense, and choosing the right priorities in your daily tasks is essential.
• Ability to take initiative, and propose ways to work better

Skills

• Strong communication and influencing skills
• Excellent analytical thinking , attention to detail and interpretation of data
• Hard working , highly organized and efficient
• Strong influencing ability
• Team worker with good interpersonal skills
• Ability to deal with pressure
• Good project manager and ability to multi-task.

Company Package:

• Market Leader in their products and sector
• DOE
• 6% Company pension contribution
• 25 days holiday + Bank holidays
• Company sick pay
• 4 x Death in Service