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BAT UK IS LOOKING FOR A SUPPLY PLANNING EXECUTIVE

JOB TYPE: Permanent

FUNCTION: Operations

SALARY RANGE: competitive salary package + excellent benefits + market leading bonus

LOCATION: Southampton, United Kingdom

Role summary

What are the key objectives and expectations from this role?

• Complete activities to support the delivery of Cash, Cost, Service, and SNO critical metric for Area/Category
• As SNO “single point of contact” (SPOC) working with a specific factory/ end market to help achieve Area/Category, Direct Reporting Business Unit (DRBU) & Region’s targets
• Actively adopt and implement digital transformation initiatives (Integrated Planning Transformation, Hive, Clear Metal, PBI, and other online tools) for the assigned factory/end market/category
• Continuously upskill technical capabilities and commercial understanding
• Continuously seek and explore process simplification within Area & DRBU

ACCOUNTABILITIES

Specific accountabilities for the role:

• Responsible for communication with the customer and/or customer service.
• Responsible for the supply chain networks and maps
• Responsible for overall inventory within the supply network
• Calculating stockholding policies and (Multi echelon Inventory Optimisation (MEIO) FG) handling inventory service levels, safety stock and inventory levels
• Handling and validating the cumulative planning lead-times
• Resolving and presenting supply issues the impact external demand
• Responsible for the planned orders (deployment) for inter and in-market inventory deployment
• Demand & distribution exceptions
• Responsible for execution of distribution orders within the firm zone
• Collaborating with the demand planner, master planner (or SNP) and local distribution orders in the scheduling zones
• Ensuring constraint availability
• Responsible for D&I planning, transactional and master data
• Achieving efficient plan for the entire planning horizon (FG, WMS, SFG)
• Firming and aligning supply and planned orders (for production and purchasing) in the planning zone
• Responsible for MP planning, transactional and master data
• Supervising and actioning supply exceptions
• Defining and maintaining the resources that are not in source system
• Responsible for handling the constraints in supply
• Build Planning BOM and new constraint in KXS Rapid Response
• Responsible for sharing forecast with suppliers

Specific accountabilities for the Master Planner (external):

• Achieving efficient plan for the entire planning horizon
• Responsible for firming and aligning planned orders (for purchasing) in the planning zone
• Responsible for the planning, transactional and sourcing master data
• Responsible for supervising and actioning supply exceptions
• Responsible for collaborating with Master Planner Production (or SNP), purchasing planner, production scheduler and D&I Planner.
• Responsible for managing the constraints within suppliers
• Responsible for ensuring visibility for the supplier capacity and supplier raw materials availability
• Responsible for calculating stockholding policies (excluding Multi echelon Inventory Optimisation (MEIO) FG)
• Selects scenarios in case of resolution
• Approval of parameter automation policies due to segmentation
• Approval of stockholding or other policies

Experience, skills, knowledge

ESSENTIAL

Experience Required

• 1-3 years across Planning, Logistic, NPI (Manufacturing & Commercial experience would be an advantage)

Technical / Functional / Leadership Skills Required

• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Good analytical and digital skills
• Good Supply Chain knowledge (process, metrics)
• Solid understanding in IWS, CI tools, and agile concept
• Some evidence of leadership capabilities, for example:
• Anticipation in order to craft the future rather than react to it.
• Resilience
• Ability to make inquisitive decisions in the face of ambiguity.
• Curiosity to seek out new insights and knowledge.
• Challenging complexity and seeking out simpler / faster ways of working.
• Driving empowerment at all levels.
• Developing teams and individuals.
• Setting high standards and delivering outstanding results.

Education / Qualifications / Certifications Required

• University degree (Supply Chain related major could be an advantage)
• Mastery in sophisticated planning system could be an advantage

Beneficial

• Experience with ERP / Planning systems.
• FMCG and/or consumer electronics supply chain experience

Qualifying questions for applicants

• How experienced are you in handling small sized, diverse teams?
• What FMCG Supply Chain knowledge / experience do you have? Especially in the area of Supply Planning?
• Are you familiar with E2E Synchronised Supply Chain?
• Do you have any experience of working as part of an above market business unit?

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Collaboration, diversity and teamwork underpin everything we do here at BAT. We know that collaborating with colleagues from different backgrounds is what makes us stronger and best prepared to meet our business goals. Come bring your difference!