BU Supply Chain Manager - Coffee, Petcare & Specialties

Position Job Title: BU Supply Chain Manager

• • Function: Operations, Supply Chain
  • Location: Flexible Location Within Europe
  • Line Manager’s Job Title: BU Operations Director EMEA
  • Work contract Legal Entity: Contract will be issued accordingly with legal requirements and legal entity of the hiring country
  • Contract Length: Permanent

    

  Job Purpose 

  Responsibility of this role is to steer and accelerate the drive towards best in class supply chain (SC) practices within assigned Business Unit, roll-out the supply chain strategy and the roadmap for the assigned Business Unit, with the involvement and the participation of the relevant stakeholders (Local Supply Chain managers, Procurement, Sales, etc.)

  Grow an agile and operationally hands-on matrix organization, to further strengthen cross-functional work streams in order to sustain year on year PBIT and Working Capital enhancement.

  Develop a pipeline of major opportunity projects which can deliver step change benefits, manage them accordingly and drive implementation across Functions and Sites. 

  Maximize Supply Chain’s support to “cost out” business contribution and broader support to assigned Business Unit’s profitable growth agendas. Specifically, provide support to roll out of step change platforms across factories.

   

  Job Dimensions & Scope

  • Process: Following and implementing with the plants the Supply Chain performance. Short term planning, outperformance vs. Budgeted Total Cost Out
  • Key performance indicators: DIFOT’s, PBIT impact, working capital

   

  Principal Accountabilities

   

  1) Strengthen functional capability

   

  • Network: Support the assigned Operations Director, partner with the plants management team, and adequate functional communities across assigned BU in order to strengthen functional expertise and drive business contribution on Working Capital (inventory management optimization) and PBIT (directly through costs reductions and other efficiency gains, indirectly by strengthening customer service).
  • Best practices: Ensure timely sharing and application of SC best practices within assigned BU. 
  • Processes: Support the assigned Operations Director, partner with the plants management team, to roll out streamlined and improved processes. Ensure homogeneity of approaches when business needs and issues are common.
  • Exposure: Grow understanding of Supply Chain matters across organization at all levels, and connect with AFEME business priorities. Educate, coach and inspire the senior managers in the organization such that they become role models to the rest of the organization

   

  2) Grow business contribution

   

  • Execution & monitoring: Be accountable for the adequate and consistent Supply Chain KPIs and monitor capability across assigned Business Unit for commonly pursued objectives.
  • Key transversal projects: Identify big ticket items within assigned Business Unit and steer adequate projects transversally and cross-functionally as required.
  • Simplification: Contribute to and/or initiate Simplification projects. Optimizing manufacturing processes and streamlining SKUs portfolio.
  • Step change platform roll out: Support development of Step Change platforms and facilitate their roll out across plants and BUs, beyond initial pilot sites.

   

  3) Specifics Activities

   

  • Strategy Implementation:
  • • Translate the overall strategic plan into concrete operational plans and follow-up on implementation through concrete Roadmaps.
    • Responsible for the correct implementation of the strategy to ensure consistency and intervene where necessary to redirect resources towards objectives.
    • Accountable for the Supply Chain performance and track and report KPI’s.
    • S&OP with month after month clear deliverables on sales and operations planning.
  • Results Achievement:
  • • Support Operations Director of the assigned Business Unit, and with Plant GMs, Supply Chain Managers and Sales, to ensure required professionals are in the right place with the appropriate support to accomplish and contribute to delivering the operating plan and business commitments.
    • The development of the capabilities of the supply chain team members within the BU.
  • Reporting
  • • Ensure the tracking of the operational excellence KPIs and develop systems that provide regular information for decision-making.
    • Minimize reporting effort while maximizing quality of information to allow effective understanding of root cause issues and development of action plans.
    • Follow up and report on achievement versus previous year and agreed targets.

   

  Major Challenges & Complexities

   

  External Relationships : Customers, Suppliers, external benchmarks

  Internal Relationships

  • Vice President Operations
  • Vice President Business Unit
  • Business Unit Operations Director
  • Group Procurement Directors
  • Plant Supply Managers
  • Plant teams Management
  • Sales
  • R&D and Marketing

   

  Qualifications/Requirements

   

  Knowledge and Experience    

  • Multi-site Supply Chain Management
  • People & change management
  • Engineering, CI & manufacturing excellence
  • OHSE internal & external rules & regulations

   

  Education and Certifications 

  • Degree in engineering, business or related field
  • Additional certification as either a Lean / Six Sigma Black Belt or Master Black Belt is desired

   

  Job Specific Requirements           

  • Strong decision making and managerial skills
  • Good business judgment/commercial acumen
  • Tenacity and energy in leading change towards an effective work environment.
  • Ability to communicate effectively in English to direct and motivate teams and stakeholders at all levels of the organization
  • Strong analytical skills and process focus
  • Ability to anticipate, negotiate & manage conflicts, problems, changing situations & deadlines
  • Able to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic and virtual environment
  • Very result driven, entrepreneurial, keen to learn and open minded

Please submit your CV in English.