I’m looking for a Head of Planning to join a rapidly growing and well recognized food business based in central London.
As the Head of Planning you’ll be responsible for refining and leading a robust S&OP process as well as leading a team of planners, you’ll be responsible to implementing best practices across the planning function .
Responsibilities:
- Lead and develop the supply planning team members
- Ensure inventory, service and waste are within targets
- Drive the accurate and timely completion of month end stock reconciliation & stock valuation
- Lead and develop S&OP to provide excellent cross-functional communication & information sharing
- Work cross functionally with other senior stakeholders to ensure supply chain efficiency is maintained or improved on all new product launches
- Analyse supplier performance around capacity and develop strong working relationships with Key Suppliers to work on improvements where needed
- Anticipate team workload challenges as different suppliers & categories grow
The ideal candidate will have the following:
- Proven leadership skills with the ability to train and develop
- Experience in a Supply Planning Management role from a FMCG business
- Able to build strong stakeholder and supplier relationships of varying seniority/size
- Analytical with strong Microsoft Excel knowledge. Power BI a bonus!
- A continuous improvement mentality
- A problem solving attitude
- Ability to work under pressure, meet targets and deadlines.
In return you’ll be joining a team with an incredible culture, a supportive environment where your ideas and suggestions will be taken seriously.
This is a hybrid role where you’ll be expected to be in the office 3 days a week and 2 days from home
The salary banding for this role is £65,000 – £75,000 + bonus and benefits
Unfortunately sponsorship isn’t available for this role.
Apply now for more details!