Logistics and Network Support Manager (14 MONTH FTC) Liverpool, England
Job description
Who are we ?
We are FBC, Fox's Burton's Companies! ……-And we bake the UK's most incredible biscuits (we might be slightly biased, but we will leave that for you to judge).
FBC was a match made in heaven, with two of the top UK biscuits manufacturers (Burton's Biscuits and Fox's Biscuits) coming together to create one unique, integrated company.
We are home to famous iconic brands, including Maryland, Fox's, Jammie Dodger & Rocky, to name just a few. We bake our incredible biscuits at eight bakeries across the UK, located at Ilse of Arran, Livingston, Blackpool, Llantarnam, Edinburgh, Kirkham, Batley & Dorset. We also have offices for our supporting services in St Albans, Liverpool and Moreton. Together, we employ circa 5,000 amazing employees across all our locations.
We are currently the second biscuit manufacturer in the UK market with a strong ambition of becoming the number two biscuit manufacturer worldwide.
We are proud to be part of the Ferrero enlarged family: such a fantastic and successful business. The Ferrero Group operates in more than 50 countries, with products sold in over 170 countries, represented by almost 38.000 employees worldwide, and a consolidated turnover of €12.7 billion (2020-21).
Along with our fantastic brand portfolio, we also have long-term agreements to manufacture several sweet & savoury snacks across Mars, Cathedral City, Marmite, Jacobs, and LU branded products. In addition, we are proud to be a strategic partner for many retailer-branded products.
Our employees make our business special. With strong family values, we believe FBC is a more prosperous and fun place to work with when people feel free to be themselves. We believe in the power of being authentic, entrepreneurial and supporting each whilst meeting our business goals.
And don't forget… work hard but play harder!
What does your typical day look like?
You will utilise creativity, resourcefulness, and ingenuity to understand and enhance supply chain processes by generating key reports, extracting, and assembling data, identifying problems, testing hypothesis, calculating KPIs, creating detailed analysis, building business cases and developing tools to turn data into insights for both business and specific internal/external profile use.
Other key actions will be but not limited to:
- Understand all Supply Chain Key Performance Indicator (KPIs), data flows and be able to interrogate data to support improvement.
- Calculate and publish weekly and monthly KPI such as but not limited to OTIF, Cost to serve, right first time and in full to monitor performance and progress toward business and customer objectives.
- Analysing and reviewing product mix, and making recommendations within the business for removal with business cases.
- Planning and overseeing incoming and outgoing deliveries processes within business systems (currently SAP WHMS)
- Overseeing logistics, warehouse and transport services and engaging in C2S workshops.
- Continuous improvement of monitoring tools, guidelines, etc. including development of existing tools and proactive adjustment of existing models based on business conditions to support more efficient processes within Customer Supply Chain Operations.
- Be involved in continuous improvement activities and work with a diverse group of people in a productive manner to understand customer needs through periodical surveys, feedback, etc. to ensure analytics tools are user-friendly to support day to day operations.
- Planning and analysing budgets and expenditures within allocated ownership, inventory reconciliation currently.
- Enforcing industry laws and regulations and company policies with the wider business and with our suppliers.
- Resolving complaints and issues regarding the supply chain.
- Maintaining customer service logs within required system.
- Identify improvement areas, and engaging with relevant stakeholders to obtain engagement and buy-in and/or propose a plan of action which will contribute towards performance.
- Draw insights from data and make recommendations to the business.
- Identify and understand complex supply chain data issues and drive them to solution.
What are the key ingredients needed for the role?
Highly numerate with experience working in an analytical position.- Ability to carry out root cause analysis and translate into plans/strategies to support business needs.
- Experience in a Logistics, Supply chain or Industry related role.
- Working experience within Logistic and Warehouse operations highly advantageous
- IT literate in Microsoft programs, Advanced Microsoft Excel skills are desirable, basics essential skills such as knowledge of Formulas, Pivot tables etc… are essential.
- Preferably have an understanding of SAP
If you are ready to begin a career with real bite, we would love to hear from you so apply now by clicking the link below.
