Head of Supply Planning

2 weeks ago


Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom Princes Full time

Vacancy Name

  • Head of Supply Planning

Employment Type

  • Permanent

Country

  • United Kingdom

Location

  • Liverpool

Business Area

  • Operations

Workplace Type

  • Hybrid

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

  • Annual sales revenue circa £1.6 billion


Multiproduct product family
  • Foods, Fish, Italian, Drinks, Oils


Multisector
  • Ambient, Chill, Frozen


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


Crossfunctional interactions
  • Sales, Commercial, Operations, Marketing,
  • Procurement and Finance
  • Periodic interactions with Director and Board level employees
  • Frequent interactions with Head of Operations and Factory Scheduling teams

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


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