Supply Chain Planning Assistant

The purpose of this role is to manage inbound purchase orders for products to ensure we maintain the required availability. The role is responsible for ensuring we maintain target availability across a designated category for DC's, in store and online, ensuring promotions and new ranges are landed and maintained at the required levels.
- The Role

**Key Responsibilities**:
The activities I carry out and what I achieve:

- Open Order Management:

- Overdue open order reporting / failed deliveries - update root cause, mitigation and new delivery date / quantity on the report.
- Open orders / future PO's - ensure they are accurate on the open order report, aligned to the stock budgets and on time with vendors.
- Non receipted goods - reporting against the Deport booking sheet on PO's that have arrived but not yet receipted. Working closely with the warehouse to address delivery compliance issues.
- Out of Stock (OOS) - provide root cause, mitigation actions & date stock is due into the DC.
- Future Inbound PO - booking requests to the DC and daily check in with goods in.
- Promo Availability - ensure trackers are updated promotional availability is delivered to the required levels.
- Instore Availability (ISA) - Target KPI 97%, ensure trackers are updated and details provided at line level.
- Range review / NPD - review performance of new lines / range review in week 1 v's forecast.
- Supplier Meetings - (weekly or biweekly) review order book, risk and build strong relationships.
- Capacity reporting - align the open orders with DC capacity to ensure the space is available to receipt the stock and book in within 24 hours.
- On time in Full (OTIF) - Vendor delivery compliance review and action plan for non-compliance. Produce a summary of previous months performance and mitigating actions.

**Location: Hybrid working with 1 to 2 days in Nuneaton Head Office**

The Person

**Key Requirements**:
The skills, knowledge, behaviours & experience I use:
Judgement and capacity for learning:

- Consistently make sound judgements on how to resolve complex business problems?
- Learn fast from change and demonstrates continuous learning?
- Demonstrate ability to see the wider picture/context as well as mastering the details?
- Take the right decisions on time balancing analysis with the need for decisive action?
- Deal effectively with risk and ambiguity to stay focused on delivery of objectives?
- Seems curious, questioning and prepared to challenge existing assumptions?
- Quickly assimilate and sorts new complex information to identify key issues, trends and areas for actions.

Interpersonal Skills & Influence:

- Understand and manage their emotional resilience during times of ups and downs?
- Demonstrate adaptable and dexterous communication skills?
- Build strong collaborative relationships that bring out the best in people?
- Have awareness of the impact they have on others and asks for, and is open to performance feedback?
- Have the courage to hold others accountable for delivery and provide clear actionable performance feedback?
- Sense what matters to others and adjusts their style accordingly?
- Know how to get things done in their current business using both formal and informal networks?

Drive to succeed and resilience:

- Demonstrate resilience and passion in delivering success for clients and colleagues?
- Demonstrate inspiring energy and drive to succeed and deliver the results?
- Remain optimistic and realistic in the face of setbacks?
- Show initiative and thinking that is ‘outside the box'?
- Adapt quickly to changing conditions?
- Demonstrate an openness and willingness to operate outside of their comfort zone?
- Communicate a positive and optimistic outlook?
- What we offer

**Our Benefits** for this role include, but not limited to:

- H&B Employee Discount - 25%
- Pension company contribution
- Exclusive benefits, free advice and savings from a range of retailers and providers
- And many more

We're passionate about helping every colleague thrive across all dimensions of wellbeing, and we're committed to having a diverse and inclusive workplace. In line with our EPIC values (Expertise, Pioneering, Inclusive, Caring), we embrace and actively celebrate all our colleagues unique and varying experiences, backgrounds, identities and cultures - I am me, we are H&B.

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- CommercialCity:

- Nuneaton**Job Type**:

- Full TimeNumber of Hours:

- 37.5Contract Type:

- Permanent