ELC Beauty LLC
Senior Supply Planner, Lakeside North Harbour, Portsmouth
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Position Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Estée Lauder Companies Supply Chain function for a Commercial Region Senior Supply Planner. The Senior Supply Planner will manage and develop a team that is responsible for inventory management across a Brand/cluster of Brands for the UK Region. The position will drive inventory optimization whilst maintaining service delivery and enhancing decisions by improving supply chain analytics and reporting. This will involve utilising systems and driving process enhancements, including SAP, o9, Noodle AI and Power BI to provide a service quality that supports the brands consumer promise. The role will require building compelling narratives to explain and improve business performance, whilst developing & maintaining collaborative relationships, that support and deliver a best-in-class Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process.
What This Role Does
- Effectively collaborates with Demand Planning, EMEA CRSM, Brands and Finance to generate balanced supply plans based on agreed objectives and operating guidelines via the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process.
- Responsible for the management and development of a team that delivers and executes against strategic goals and objectives.
- Drives talent development, succession planning and recruitment.
- Responsible for managing and continuously improving the plan and delivery of finished goods supply from EMEA West Hub to the UK DC – DHL Coventry.
- Responsible for achieving Customer Service / Fill Rates targets.
- Responsible for defining tactics and action plans to achieve the regional inventory and service level KPI’s. Conducts monthly inventory reviews with the commercial teams to optimize inventory and prevent excess. Additionally, responsible for publishing regional reports and initiatives to manage excess and surplus inventory levels.
- Collaboratively develop strategic regional allocations, supply commits and plan for the operational horizon.
- Coordinate the Monthly launch and event planning and execution process, pro-actively managing and communicating risks.
- Manage the planning and execution of the Holiday programme.
- Support process integration with the Demand Planning, Retail Supply Chain and Distribution & Logistics functions.
- Drive core elements of the IBP process evolution through Brand partnership and collaboration.
- Assertively escalate and clearly communicate issues, as well as developing, driving, and implementing resolution.
- Manage and execute wider supply chain projects.
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- Educated to degree level or equivalent.
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills including Power BI.
- Attention to detail & high levels of accuracy.
- Experience of managing a team.
- Advanced user skills of Excel and SAP BI.
- Advanced systems competency, particularly SAP SCM/ECC & APO.
- Ability to interpret data and translate into insights and actions.
- Confidence liaising with senior management and key stakeholders and making recommendations.
- Proven project management skills.
- Self-directed, proactive and operates under general or minimum supervision.
Compensation & Benefits
- Hybrid Working (1 day WFH, 4 days office based).
- Generous Bonus Opportunity that usually performs ahead of target.
- 25 Days Annual Leave (excluding Bank Holidays) that increases with length of service up to 29 days.
- 1 additional day of Annual Leave to celebrate your birthday.
- Holiday Purchase scheme that enables you to get five additional days.
- Summer Fridays for five months of the year.
- Market leading Family Leave provisions.
- Generous Staff Discount & Credit.
- Benefits platform with exclusive discounts and offers.
- Mental Health Wellbeing Provisions (Unmind App and Employee Assistant Programme).
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