Supply Planner

6 months ago

Woking, United Kingdom Asahi Europe & International Full time

**Supply Planner - 3rd Party**

**Key Purpose Statement**

The Supply Planner - 3rd Party is accountable for providing a supply plan for both Asahi owned and 3rd party products that maximises target stock holding levels and availability to the 3rd party channel.

The planning process involves short term planning in addition to longer term planning for peak periods and identifying capacity constraints. The supply planner will also manage the relationship with 3rd party suppliers and internal depots to ensure day to day operations run effectively, proactive resolution of any issues that may occur and continuously improving how we work. This being achieved through effective development and coaching of 2 direct reports in line with the Asahi behaviours.

**Key Accountabilities**

The Supply Planner will be responsible for below outputs:

- Planning supply of a portfolio of bought in 3rd party products
- Managing the tank beer planning process.
- Setting, reviewing, and maintaining stock policies in SAP
- Planning med - long term stock build for peak periods (Xmas, bank holidays), including storage capacity planning
- Pro-actively managing any stock outs/service level issues to minimise business impact
- Leading root cause analysis of stock outs and service level issues
- Managing stock at risk process for all 3rd party and wines including monthly reporting of risk to finance BP
- Work with onsite warehouses to understand and plan inventory holding in line with current storage capacity.
- Lead SKU rationalisation process for 3rd party/bought ins
- Working closely with the wine team to review product range and forecasts

Process Improvement
- Lead the MRP project in order to move current manual planning processes onto a SAP based replenishment process
- Collaborate with demand planning and the wine commercial team to introduce a centralised forecasting process, to replace current ROS based planning

Team Leadership
- Responsible for managing and developing 2 direct reports, identifying all training needs to aid performance and progression
- Maintaining and developing all Training & Induction material for the ABEG supply planning function including all Operating Procedure documentation
- Recruiting to fill vacancies in the team when necessary.

**Experience Required**
- Degree is essential, preferably in a relevant area
- Substantial supply planning or operational planning experience in an FMCG environment (particularly supply from European factories)
- Advanced Excel (Power Query advantageous)for reporting and analysis.
- Strong analytical skills able to make the connections in data, events and trends.
- Customer or supplier relationship management experience
- Experience in a high volume, detailed and process driven organisation
- Highly organised with excellent attention to detail
- Knowledge of the wider E2E Supply Chain ideally within an FMCG environment.

**Key Attributes of the Successful Person**
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- able to clearly and productively communicate ideas, plans and priorities to others in a commercially sensitive manner
- is able to tailor the manner of communication to take into account the very different groups of people communicated with.
- Experience of working cross-functionally at an operational level, with demonstrable evidence of influencing your peer group and above, and strong examples of relationship building and creation of collaborative, customer-focused plans.
- Good understanding and use of IT systems and databases.
- Proven people management experience
- Excellent project management skills

**What We Offer**
- Private pension
- Annual bonus
- Medical and dental insurance
- Life assurance
- Beer allowance

We are committed to nurturing a workplace where we celebrate and respect difference, and support everyone to be true to who they are At Asahi Europe and International we believe you can SHINE AS YOU ARE - no matter your age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We want to support you to be courageous in your individuality and to know that whoever you are and whatever your circumstances, you can belong with us without having to conform.

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