JOB PROFILE: Supply ChainPlanningManager
REPORTS TO: Supply Chain Controller
Location: Mainly Ashford with some flexible working & Customer travel
Role Purpose Statement
Take an active role in developing how we best support Customer & Brakes Supply Chain planning requirements to gather demand insight & manage Customer driven change within the network. Support the development of the team & help to develop collaborative relationships with Brakes Key Customers to facilitate best practice management throughout the end-to-end supply chain.
Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities
-Take an active role in supporting & developing the Customer Planning team, demonstrating best practise, taking a lead-role in engaging with customers & sales where required as well as taking a line management role where appropriate.
-Be proactive in developing ways of working that generate the most value adding Customer insights
-Own & manage the pipeline of activities within own area of responsibility & allocate resource to activities in line with need. Work with the other SC Planning Managers to ensure resource is allocated appropriately dependent on business need & tasks in progress at any giventime.
-Collaborate with Customers Account Management Team to gather forecast value added insight for key demand events (promotions, allocations, menu changes, category switches events etc), challenge, validate & analyse the impact & communicate across the Brakes Supply Chain & Distributionnetwork.
-Work with Customers to gather insight relating to supply changes (bespoke product switches, bespoke supplier changes etc) and support with managing & communicating that change by working with Customers, Suppliers and across the Brakes supply chain & distribution network. Collaborate with customers to ensure wastage risk against bespoke products is identified & tracked within 6 months of its shelf-life end or with sufficient time to take action to avoid waste.
-Work with Customers to ensure that bespoke product discontinuations are cleared from the Brakes Supply Chain & Distribution network within or in line with the agreed timelines or Customercontract.
-Build the appropriate relationships with Internal Sales Teams to gather insight relating to sales driven change (e.g. customer brand switching or nominated to list lineswitches)
-Ensure that feedback is provided to Customers or Sales Teams on the quality of their insights
-Agree policies with sales teams and/or customers to manage waste/stock clearance where those policies do not alreadyexist
-Work with Customers to monitor inbound Nominated Supplier Performance and to drive improvement where necessary
-Coach & mentor the team to enable a culture of continuous improvement
Objectives
-Own the pipeline to ensure that all Customer change activity is understood at leastfour weeks of the change occurring & is known about / captured on the activity planning pipeline so that the appropriate resource can be allocated toit
-Ensure that all known change activity is shared across the