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Supply Chain Planner
Date: 18-Jan-2023
Location: HADDENHAM, GB, HP17 8LB
Company: McCormick & Company
Job title Supply Chain Planner
Location Haddenham, UK
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
- In this role you will work collaboratively as part of an EMEA Supply Planning organization with cross-functional teams and customers, to develop, plan and implement the Supply Plan for a portfolio within the integrated business planning process.
- This will include the balancing and management of inventory, customer service requirements, and total cost to meet finished goods demand with optimized total delivered costs.
- Managing inventory for New Product launches, managing of disposition of slow moving and obsolete finished goods, and developing and driving continuous process improvement initiatives that creates capacity, reduces inventory and/or improves service.
CANDIDATE PROFILE
- Experience in Supply Chain Planning, Logistics, Operations or a related field in an FMCG company
- Demonstrated ability to analyse, trouble shoot, and problem solve.
- Strong communication and organization skills are essential for leading cross-functional teams(s) to alignment and solutions. Building key collaborative relationships with Customer Service, Logisitics, Demand Planning, Plant Planning and Scheduling, Plant Operations, Commercialization and sourcing significant exchange of information in a concise and logical way.
- Proficient ability in MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and ERP (Ex: SAP), ECC, APO.
- You will also require an understanding of concepts and principles in Supply Planning and working knowledge of these elements in other areas including other Supply Chain sub-functions, Operations, Sourcing & Sales Working knowledge of how Supply Planning integrates within the end-to-end Product Supply Network (Sourcing, Planning, Making & Shipping)
- The successful candidate will have demonstrated ability to manage projects and process improvement initiatives with cross functional teams using honed influencing and leadership
- A degree in an appropriate discipline
- APICS CPIM is desirable but not essential