Supply Chain Assistant - Lutterworth Lutterworth
Job description
Supply Chain Assistant - Lutterworth
Supply Chain Outbound Assistant
About the role
Looking for an opportunity that's fun, fast paced, customer focused, commercial with fantastic development opportunities? Then look no further! Our Supply Chain teams are at the 'heart' of our business and front and centre of all we do. By working collaboratively with our Merchandising and retail teams, they focus on delivering excellent availability for our customers and cost savings to the business. From the fast, reactive world of George supply right through to import planning and online supply there's so many areas of opportunity. A career in Supply isn't about 'pressing buttons'; it's about driving innovation, delivering results and landing initiatives which impact the stores and customer in a positive way. Joining our supply chain is the chance to take ownership of your own category, to take control, to influence ways of working and see your results come to life each time you step into a store.
Purpose:
To develop and drive an Outbound Supply strategy that delivers great availability to stores, meeting customer and market requirements whilst delivering maximum profit and saving cost.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver weekly allocation and replenishment in line with business priorities and customer demand.
- End to end accountability of your own departments.
- Work closely with Inbound Supply to ensure customer demand is met.
- Laser focus on retail availability and demand forecast planning to ensure key business priorities and key event targets are met.
- Stock Maintenance of old/markdown/end of life product.
- Awareness of business and team strategy and how you can play a part within it.
- Being proactive and supportive with store feedback, ensuring requirements are met.
- Engage with Merchandising and store visualisation teams to ensure consistent priorities are agreed.
- Maximise full price sales potential to minimise markdown risk.
- Support P&L by saving cost through continued focus and action.
- Communicate cross functionally to ensure consistent delivery.
- Being aware of ALS capacity challenges and how you can support.
- Demand and Forecast planning - ensuring accurate forecasting in line with business priorities and key events.
- Consistent review of supply chain and instock targets to ensure metrics are being met.
- Accountable for launch availability throughout the year as well as delivering on key promotional events at certain points of the year.
- Support supply coordinator with data analysis and strategic initiatives to get ahead of the curve.
Skills & Experience
- Strong organisational and administration skills, with a 'can do' approach.
- Passion for numbers, interpreting data and the ability to translate this into forward creative planning.
- Demonstrates a desire to develop their supply chain skills and gain an understanding of the wider distribution network.
- Intermediate Excel Knowledge, as well as experiencing using it, with the ability to analyse and interpret data and reports.
- Inquisitive mind-set and driven by continuous improvement .
- Self-motivated, able to work under pressure, quickly & effectively to agreed deadlines, both independently and as part of a team .
- Strong communication skills with the ability to build networks effectively.
Your benefits
A competitive salary comes with an excellent benefits package including colleague discount, a competitive pension, company bonus and many additional rewards! Once you're here the development opportunities are as endless as your commitment to your self-development and we will support you every step of the way to help further your career.
