Head of Supply Planning - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Princes

Princes

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

5 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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About Princes

The Princes Group has over 7,000 employees with offices and production sites in the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, France and Mauritius. Princes manufactures 350 different food and drink products responsibly sourced and enjoyed by consumers every day. None of this would be possible without striving to be an employer of choice, where our colleagues are proud to represent our business.

Role Description

Job Purpose

Business process owner of Sales and Operations Execution (S&OE) planning across UK
Manufactured and Traded / Imported supply planning, translating strategic plans from the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) horizon into efficient deployment across the supply network to deliver world class service delivery.
This includes implementing continuous process improvement and driving overall product supply reliability to Customers underpinned by ensuring all crossfunctional inputs to support the process are fit for purpose.

Dimensions

Multiproduct product family

Multisector

Route to market

Retail, Channels, Online, Export
5 direct reports with Line Management responsibility for the Master Production Scheduling (MPS) team Canning, Drinks, Traded, Oils and Inventory Management

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Principal Responsibilities

Partner with Head of S&OP and Head of Demand Planning to translate longterm planning into efficient execution
Business process owner of all Supply strategy within the S&OE horizon (012 months) driving least cost deployment whilst enabling world class Customer service
Leadership of Master Production Schedulers (MPS) across all business categories
Optimize the tradeoffs between service, revenue, net margin, cash flow and cost
Lead periodic crossfunctional Supply Planning reviews in current financial year across product categories
Lead weekly Integrated Planning (IP) process
Lead, develop and implement a Supply Planning process that delivers optimum asset and capacity utilization across owned and 3rd party manufacturing networks
Partner with Head of Operations category leads to drive least cost manufacturing
Partner with Head of Logistics to ensure efficient warehousing & transport execution within capacity limits
Owner of inventory health to deliver working capital business targets
Partner with Head of Customer Services to ensure Customer segmentation is reflected into planning logic and Customer supply expectations are exceeded
Support the annual budget build process with recommendations to remove waste
Effective management of Innovation into and out of the Supply Chain underpinned by robust ABC analysis to optimize the portfolio
Ensure SAP APO system is maintained with best practice leveraged across business categories

Role Requirements

Knowledge/ Skills

Prior experience of both S&OP and S&OE processes essential this could include significant experience as a practitioner or experience leading improvement or implementation
Deep functional knowledge of Supply/Demand Planning roles
Knowledge of Factory scheduling systems and capacity planning models
Proficient using analysis tools such as PowerBI, Excel and PowerPoint
Project Management experience on large scale transformation from planning to execution and review
Expert knowledge of SAP APO planning systems
Experience of working in the FMCG Packaging Goods sector
Degree level qualified