Materials Planning Manager

3 weeks ago

Haddenham, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom McCormick & Company Full time

Materials Planning Manager

McCormick & Company

Job Summary

This role is responsible for leading the materials planning function, ensuring the balance between service level and cash in line with business targets. The ideal candidate will have experience in supply chain management, inventory optimization, and team leadership.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own materials inventory level to guarantee service level and cash alignment with business targets.
  • Provide leadership and oversight to materials purchasing planning, product life cycle change management, disposals, risk management, and master data governance.
  • Identify and implement improvements to working practices to improve efficiency, performance, and reliability in materials planning processes.
  • Responsible for tactical and strategic factory materials and inventory plans, set targets, manage year-on-year stock value/inventory turnover improvements to support UK Supply Chain targets.
  • Oversee development and coaching of departmental team members, develop individual goals for direct reports, and ensure alignment to functional OGSMs.
  • Build bench strength in materials management using SAP MRP.
  • Represent Materials Planning on local, regional, and global projects, with regard to Commercialization, CCI, and engineering changes.
  • Develop and maintain strong working relationships with NPD, procurement, and supply functions to ensure the monthly planning cycle delivers for the business and has the right level of governance across the end-to-end process.
  • Identify capacity or supply gaps and inventory strategies from the long-term plan.
  • Manage significant material availability challenges and lead communication to business contacts across impacted customers.
  • Collaborate with procurement on business continuity plans for key strategic suppliers or capacity-constrained suppliers.
  • Develop and own Service Level execution agreements with key strategic suppliers to drive cost, cash, and service performance.
  • Implement Material Supply Management Capability frameworks, including materials strategic master planning.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain or a related business field.
  • Experience working within a team-oriented and collaborative environment.
  • Ability and experience working internationally, across multiple business units.
  • Experience working with SAP and associated business systems.
  • Ability to analyze data and develop recommendations and solutions.
  • A record of multi-tasking, identifying priorities, and 'trouble shooting' as required.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • FMCG experience.
  • Project Management.
  • Change Management.
  • Pragmatic approach, actively seeking to find a solution in a crisis.
  • Actively take on difficult problems, even if outside the remit of 'my job'.
  • Creative thinker, actively challenging the status quo.
  • Ability to thrive on continual change and come up with new ideas to create business improvements and growth opportunities.
  • Ability to energize others with ideas and improvements for change to ensure change happens with speed and agility.
  • Will actively seek to understand other points of view and collaboratively build solutions.
  • Proactively work with colleagues to develop solutions to their issues across teams/functions and countries.
  • Uses positive influencing strategies to build commitment to your agenda.

McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.

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