Customer Operations Manager Supply Chain

5 days ago


Kegworth, United Kingdom Refresco Full time

Company description:
Refresco UK are part of Refresco Group based Rotterdam Netherlands, the world's largest independent soft drink's manufacturer with 70 sites across Europe and North America.

Job description:
**Customer Operations Manager - Supply Chain - Refresco UK - Kegworth, Derbyshire (just off J24 of the M1)**

**Competitive salary, performance bonus, private healthcare, good company pension scheme**

Refresco, the world’s leading independent soft drinks manufacturer seeks a persuasive, analytical, commercially aware and operationally focused **Customer Operations Manager with Supply Chain specialism** to ensure products are produced on time,in the right quantities and to the perfect specifications for our important and demanding contract manufacturing customers (many household name brands). Refresco is always changing, always innovating, always growing, this is a pivotal role connecting withmany key departments in the Refresco organisation, leading all sorts of opportunity to grow your career within Refresco in future.

**This is a specialist role within Refresco and will suit you if you have customer services experience with supply chain focus and can pull together operations and commercial teams in an FMCG (food & drink) environment.**

**About the Role**

You will report to our Head of Supply Chain Planning, and you will be the 'owner' of Refresco’s operational supply chain & manufacturing performance for all our contract manufacturing customers, in addition to helping develop future contract manufacturing customeropportunities and on-boarding new customers.

You are the key escalation point for achieving alignment on customer demand, customer supply chain results, investigating and communicating issues back to the Refresco business.

**Your main duties and responsibilities as Contract Manufacturing Operations Manager are**:

- Building collaborative relationship with key external customers, to understand their supply needs, managing their expectations and supporting them in achieveing their requirements on product availability
- Aligning internal supply chain communication to achieve a focused, agreed and consistent message to our customers, again crucial in managing their expectations
- Being the internal champion of our customers’ needs liaising with supply chain colleagues, operations and commercial so that all are pulling in the same direction
- Being the external customer key point of contact for supply chain related issues and communication such as performance against KPI’s, progress chasing, reporting investigations, what corrective actions are being implemented, the production plan and 13 weekforecast, trial coordination, and waste investigations
- Supporting the Contract Manufacturing team in coordinating all planning/operations activities relating to the specified contract packing customers

**What's in it for you?**

We offer you a competitive salary, a pension scheme, annual bonus scheme, life cover, holiday allowance, discounted drinks, and free on-site parking. We'll encourage you to learn and grow while at work, grasping all opportunities that come your way - andwhen you consider our scale and our ambitious growth plans, you can be sure that plenty will.

**About You**

You will have been in a customer facing role in an FMCG environment working within the supply chain team, and you have a good understanding of how operations, commercial and supply chain link together to provide great service levels to external customers.You will be an excellent communicator, able to persuade and influence internally and externally to manage expectations on service delivery and stock availability issues.

You will be highly numerate, comfortable working with data and analysing information so that you can identify key issues, bottlenecks and opportunities.

As you can probably conclude you will need to be very organised, methodical in your approach, detail conscious and able to deal with last minute and constant change in a very calm way

**About Refresco**

Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We're thirsty for more and growing fast which is why we recently invested £1.25 billion in expanding our global manufacturing footprint making us the largest independent bottler of soft drinks and fruitjuices in the world. We currently produce 12 billion litres from over 60 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we’re only just getting started

Our UK Business unit has six manufacturing plants providing a great place to work for 1800 employees producing private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers including Tesco, ASDA, Morrison’s, Sainsburys, ALDI and Lidl. We alsomanufacture for branded customers such as Innocent, Ocean Spray, Weetabix, Del Monte and Um Bongo. Whether it’s packed in Cartons, PET, Aseptic PET or Cans, we ensure that our products are not only manufactured to the highest quality standards but they getwhere they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high profile customers.

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