Material Planning

5 months ago

Southampton, United Kingdom British American Tobacco Full time

**BAT is evolving at pace - truly like no other organization.**

**To achieve the ambition, we have set for ourselves, we are looking for colleagues who are ready to live our ethos every day. Come be a part of this journey**

**BAT UK** **IS LOOKING FOR A MATERIAL PLANNING AND SUPPLIER MANAGEMENT PROCESS LEAD**

**JOB TYPE**:Permanent

**FUNCTION**: Operations

**SALARY RANGE**:competitive salary package + excellent benefits + market leading bonus

**LOCATION**:Southampton, United Kingdom

**ROLE SUMMARY**

**What are the key goals and expectations from this role?**

As central to the Supply Network Planning (SNP) Centres of Excellence (CoE) this role:

- Is the Product Owner for **Supplier Management** & **Material Planning** Processes and tools.
- Drives a **step change** in Supplier Management & Supplier capabilities to drive **coordinated processes**, enabling digital transformation & control towers, value chains - to accelerate Supply Chain maturity & gain competitive advantage.
- Drives **continuous improvements** (CI) for Supplier Management and related material planning processes
- finding and prioritising features using AGILE (simplification, standardisation, automation, optimisation) methodology.
- Drives process and system (KINAXIS/ECC) alignment to the global template.
- Drives Multicategory Enterprise & ERP strategy for Supplier Management.
- Support Multi-functional process and platform integration (Forecast to Stock, Procure to Pay).

**What is the direct impact of this role on the team or organization?**
- Supplier collaboration transformation
- “Define” and “Develop” elements) across process, systems, and data parameters - plus
- Collaborate closely with SNO Leadership Teams to ensure that only capabilities with clear business value are delivered.
- Works across all product categories and types, digital platforms, and value networks.

**Reports to**

Head of SNP CoE

**Number of Direct Reports
**1

**Core Relationships**

**Internal**
- Centres of Excellence (CoEs) across Supply Network Operations (SNO) and wider
- Planning teams
- Digital Business Solutions (DBS) teams
- IWS (Integrated Work Systems) Pillar Leads and teams
- Functional / regional / area change agents (such as value stream engineers)
- SNO Finance
- Procurement team
- Business Optimisation centre (BOC) teams

**External**:

- Third party IT solution development companies and DevOps structures.
- External suppliers
- External thought leaders e.g Gartner.

**Geographic Scope
**Global

**Travel Required**

Yes

**ACCOUNTABILITIES**

Supplier management and digital initiatives:

- Product Owner for “Supplier Management” & “Material Planning” Processes - standards, tools, and capabilities as part of the overarching coordinated planning template.
- Custodian of Global Templates for Material Planning & Supplier Management : SAP+KINAXIS, processes, critical metrics
- Handles the enhancements, automation, reporting and analytics capabilities
- Operates within right CI governance forums such as Focus Groups and Design Review Groups (DRGs)
- Drive Multicategory Enterprise & ERP strategy
- Handles SAP & KINAXIS Template Change Requests and Waivers in process.
- Articulates the supplier management strategy and framework.
- Analyse supplier management capability: find, design, and develop optimisation processes and tools that advance the framework.
- Leads data integrity and quality improvements
- Ensure all modifications to supplier management systems, tools and processes conform to relevant authorisations (example: legal and SOx regulations). Ensure these are accurately solutioned, assessed, governed, and detailed - prior to implementation.
- Uses AGILE framework to priorities work.

IWS (Supply Network Pillar):

- Define/drive mechanisms to check in process controls and compliance for supplier management DMS and Processes; includes root cause analysis and actions to drive standardisation and supply chain performance.
- Support and take part in compliance and phased assessments to ensure processes, metrics and organisation follow integrated planning template model(s) and approach.

PEOPLE
- Function as change agent and advocate standards that drive connected digital transformation and faster, simpler, and globally consistent end to end value chain networks.
- Drives the development agenda in relevant governance (example: Focus Groups and DRGs), cascading upwards and downwards as part of a continuous improvement culture.
- Pro-actively engage with Heads of Functions, to drive standardisation and improvements
- Work closely with functional / regional change agents to ensure only valuable initiatives are delivered and constantly checking the product is of use to the business.

**EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE**

**ESSENTIAL***
- The role demands a strong basis in the Operations, SNO and digital transformation to deliver sustained improvement.
- Continuous Improvement, AGILE and growth mindset passionate about optimising pr

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