pladis Global
Strategic & Capacity Planning Lead
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Want to help us bring happiness to the world?
Want to join an ambitious and fast-growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure, and people? Then this is the place for you. As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don't compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.
To succeed at pladis, you need to be purpose-led, resilient, and positive. We expect pace and agility, insist on collaboration, and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact. Click “Apply” to get started.
Why join our team?
Working closely with Supply Planning, Factory Operational Teams, Commercialisation, Finance, and Marketing teams, our Strategic S&OP team collaborates cross-functionally to convert business ambitions into strategic capacity planning insight to future-proof our Supply Chain operation in the long term.
What will this role achieve?
This role requires the role-holder to build and maintain the long-term supply plan, converting sophisticated data into simple insights into our 1 to 5-year UK&I capacity position. The role is also required to influence and build positive relationships with a broad range of colleagues on opportunities and risks, supporting building plans for our future growth.
Responsibilities and accountabilities within the role
- Lead the bi-annual Supply Chain volume and working capital budgets, through:
- Conversion of demand inputs from commercial finance into a phased supply volume plan for all UK manufacturing sites as well as bought-in products
- Identify & challenge anomalies in growth/decline areas
- Align supply plans with manufacturing availability
- Summarise findings and share with key stakeholders
- Maintenance & develop the UK&I capacity modelling toolkit, Rough Cut Capacity Plan (RCCP) tool to show visibility of the medium to long-term capacity horizon
- Identify and track hot and cold spots, reviewing monthly
- Support the creation and delivery of strategic plans to unlock capacity
- Monitor and report sales performance against budget, to provide insight into variances, trends, and emerging risks for key sub-brands
- Maintain monthly strategic forecast in OMP and support Supply Planners through monthly MTP queries
- Lead the monthly Medium Term planning opportunities & risks process (MTPOR) and support the delivery of key messages at the monthly S&OP board
- Provide capacity assessments and scenario modelling to support strategic opex, capex, and growth & innovation projects, feeding directly into the Innovation, Capex, ROL, and global SDR processes
- Ensure capacity modelling is aligned between the long-term strategic plans and the medium term RCCP modelling methodologies
- Support the management of stock builds and cutovers plans for major launches or projects, and populate OMP dummy codes to facilitate medium-term planning in the early stages of project delivery
- Handover projects to supply planners at Gate 3 with assumptions clearly detailed, using fortnightly Supply Planning NPD meeting for alignment
- Collaborate with Supply Chain, Commercial, Finance, and Sales & Manufacturing teams to ensure alignment of demand, supply, and capacity plans and support effective decision-making
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What do you need for this role?
Crucial
- Experience in an analytical role in supply chain or similar environment
- Proven knowledge of Excel, with a strong ability to turn sophisticated data sets into clear and impactful insights and communicate recommendations in a clear and positive manner
- Effective collaboration and relationship building to encourage alignment
- Be able to effectively connect with partners and simplify sophisticated messages
- Ability to challenge and influence stakeholders
- A self-starter with the ability to work independently and manage own workload
- Clear communication skills
Desired
- Experience working in FMCG organization with knowledge of manufacturing environment (an advantage)
- Experience working on projects over a long-term horizon and scenario planning interdependencies
- Understanding of the Sales & Operational Planning Processes and factory production processes and capabilities
- OMP, SAP & Excel skills
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Our winning traits and behaviours
- Purpose-Led - Energised by our promise to deliver happiness to the world with every bite
- Agile - Ever evolving, never satisfied, and never standing still
- Collaborative - Willing to work for mutual success
- Resilient - Quick to adapt to change, fast learner, and persistent in the face of setbacks
- Positive - Self-motivated, optimistic, adventurous, and inspiring
pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer
pladis is committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion, or any other classification protected by law. We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List. If you are a recruitment agency and wish to submit a candidate to be considered for this vacancy, you must have agreed to, and signed, our terms of business. We will not accept CVs from any other sources other than those currently on our PSL. We will not pay a fee for any candidate that has not been represented by a provider on our PSL.
About pladis
pladis is one of the world’s fastest-growing snacking companies and home to much-loved brands including McVitie’s, GODIVA, and Ülker. pladis also owns regional brands Jacob’s, Go Ahead, Flipz, Turtles, BN, Verkade, and many more products across sweet and savoury biscuits, wafer, cake, and chocolate. Formed in 2016, pladis is the proud steward of over 300 years of family baking and confectionery experience. The expertise of our 16,000-strong global workforce spans 27 bakeries across 11 countries and is united by our purpose: to ‘bring happiness with every bite’. As a responsible business delivering the highest quality products and exceptional service, pladis’ products have the potential to reach more than four billion people across the world.
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