If you’re naturally curious about how things work, comfortable working with data, and motivated by solving real operational challenges, this is an opportunity to have a direct impact on how our supply chain performs end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Demand Planning and Forecasting – Maintain forecasts, manage exception reports, and analyse forecast discrepancies to understand and respond to trends and changes, with corrective actions. Work collaboratively across the business to plan for NPD, discontinuations, marketing events, offers, and campaigns to overlay uplifts on baseline forecasts. Support the Senior Supply Chain Management team in the monthly Open-To-Buy process.
• Maintenance of Replenishment System – Review, refine, and optimise purchasing parameters to enhance the ordering pattern for all product ranges. Maintain accurate planning parameters in the systems – NetSuite and NetStock. Ability to understand end-to-end supply chain systems and their integrations/interdependencies.
• Purchasing – Interrogate and verify suggested scheduled purchase orders and ensure bespoke customer requirements are met. Liaise with suppliers to confirm production and shipment dates in line with lead times. Communicate with customer service and the sales team to align priorities and meet customer requirements.
• Supplier Management – Work closely with overseas suppliers and the Buster + Punch China team to ensure pilot orders and purchase orders are completed on time and shipped in the required order. Review lead times, replenishment cycles, and MOQs to maintain lean supply chain principles. Proactively manage and agree solutions for manufacturing challenges and issues (capacity, machine downtime, and resource fluctuations).
• Shipping and Distribution – Align purchasing to maximise the use of sea freight as a preferred route. Maintain and update ETDs and ETAs in line with agreed SLAs.
• Stock Holding Management – Ensure optimum stock levels to maximise customer availability and ensure high-velocity lines are never out of stock within model stock levels. Manage surplus and obsolete inventory and develop exit plans to dispose of it where required.
• Service Level KPI Management – Action daily and weekly KPIs and dashboard exceptions whilst identifying and resolving fulfilment issues. Support the development of, and produce, weekly and monthly supply chain KPI packs.

Personal Attributes

• Ability to manage, influence, and engage a broad group of stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Logical decision making and organisational ability
• Root cause analysis and problem solving
• Strong eye for detail, precision and accuracy
• Exceptional Technical ability
• A Sense of Calm
• Works hard and goes the extra mile
• Exceptional level of Integrity

Skills & Competencies

• Strong communicator with demonstrable experience communicating with a wide variety of stakeholder groups
• Effective attention to detail
• Possesses an analytical & root-cause mindset to enable continuous improvement
• Confident in extrapolating and interpreting large data sets

Experience

• You will have had 2 years supply management experience working in a fast based, high volume retail or manufacturing environment.
• You will have previous experience of working with product development teams, to manage supply chain elements of launching new products.
• You will ideally have experience of a varied supplier base in the Far East, India and Europe.

Education and Qualifications

• Degree preferred but not essential.
• GCSE Maths and English required.

Other Information

• You must be willing to travel overseas in this role

References

The successful applicant will be asked to supply 2 references to support their application