Latest Jobs in a Multinational FMCG Company, December 2016

Adexen Recruitment Agency - Our client, a Multinational company in the FMCG industry, the world leader in wines and spirit delivering on leading premium brands in the industry, is recruiting to fill the position below:


Job Title: Supply Chain Manager
Job Reference: 1170
Industry: FMCG - Consumer Goods
Location: Nigeria
Function: Supply chain
Job Description

• The role is responsible for delivering all aspects of Logistics and Supply Chain to the organization including strategy development, the provision of business solutions, service delivery and budget management. As part of procurement team, has input into the overall strategy and management of the company.
• Identify and evaluate operational risks such as supply, quality (including food safety), safety, environment, security, regulatory compliance
• Master stock management, related infrastructure and goods transfer processes taking into account planning, quality demands, planned quantities and costs constraints.
• Manage the whole procurement cycle from business needs identification to suppliers relationship management
• Place service and quality at the heart of the business, making sure customer satisfaction is optimum
• Lead change to ensure new solutions are evaluated, adopted and implemented (through alignment of business strategy, culture, structure, processes, people, and the implementation of projects).
• Ability to communicate effectively and build beneficial relationship with key stakeholders, through strong interpersonal skills.
• Design and implement appropriate risk-mitigation plan in compliance with internal and external standards and norms
• Maintain and develop operations performance by implementing performance assessment and continuous improvement systems.
• Develop, implement and improve business planning capabilities by understanding and challenging market demand and optimizing procurement, production and replenishment plans accordingly in order to meet demand.
• Implement and optimize production / process management to meet the planned customer service levels, the required quality standard, at the required cost.

• Relevant Degree in Supply Chain Management or related field.
• 9 years Supply Chain experience in a commercial environment preferably with hands-on experience in demand planning, procurement and process management.
• Proactive, strategic and with excellent Leadership skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• The role is to support the Human Resources Director by taking responsibility for particular HR functions including employee relations.
• Performance management and training and development.
• Assist HR Director with planning and implementation of HR strategy
• Assist with recruitment initiatives within client teams
• Support the development of employees within client teams
• Oversee management of employee performance within client teams
• Provide employee relations advice for client teams
• Adopt talent management practices for client teams
• Monitor employee engagement within client teams
• Drive the performance management process
• Undertake initiatives to measure and address workplace culture and employee engagement
• Adopt Best-practice talent management initiatives and talent progress through the Group
• Lead Training and skills development programs to greater employee productivity and engagement.
• Maintain Productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Manage HR budgets effectively.
• Hands on expertise in Employee Engagement, People Development & Team Management

• Degree or similar qualification in human resources
• Minimum of 8 years human resource generalist experience
• CIPD or CIPMN certification is an added advantage
• Experience in FMCG is a plus

• Demand forecast planning done in conjunction with sales budgets
• Replenishment and Shipment forecasts done in conjunction with demand forecasts and sales budgets to ensure sufficient stock levels
• Forecast plans to be approved by the Demand Planning and Procurement Manager
• Utilize a collaborative and consensus approach by working with Sales, Marketing and Finance to obtain and ensure that current and accurate information is used in demand forecasts
• Lead and take complete ownership of S&OP with all relevant stakeholders – present monthly analysis and updates on the past month
• Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast results.
• Develop demand forecasts (operational forecasts) at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons as part of a demand planning function - i.e. clear phasing of demand plan by SKU
• Coordinate cross-functional research activities to reconcile significant variances and refine the forecast model to reflect updated sales and marketing assumptions – these are meetings held outside of the S&OP meetings
• Prepare, report, and communicate forecast and inventory measurements to management (forecast accuracy, inventory plan vs. targets).
• Challenges demand assumptions (e.g., sales and long term inventories) and propose / refines the plan
• Participates in key decision making ( e.g., sales and operations planning ) in order to integrate planning and operational constraints (financial, service, time)
• Drives performance KPIs (product availability) and adapts plans to meet targets
• Models and articulates operational capacity
• Proposes and makes decisions on capital investments based on the long term plan
• Improve processes, methods systems planning optimization
• Defines target KPIs to ensure improved business planning capability
• Develop, use, and maintain Demand Planning software as the primary forecasting system tool (Trust project to implement “Infor system”).
• Implementation and utilization of demand management software (Infor - trust project) that is used to house the critical information, and is integrated with the ERP system as well as the Sales & Operations Planning platform
• Refined systems and methods to continually improve forecasts so that the company can better anticipate customer needs.
• Initiates and leads the development of short and long-term supply plans to balance the demand forecast with cost, efficiency and capacity constraints.
• Draft the plan from which replenishment is to be executed this is to be reviewed by manager and actioned accordingly
• Planning delivery timetables - for both Inbound stock and IBT’s
• Manage inventory levels and targets (by set parameters such as ABC, DIC and safety stock), to ensure demand plan is achieved
• Proactively report SKU availability issues - at both warehouse and brand owner level
• Coordinates cross functional resolution of day to day issues related to supply and demand discrepancies, ensures effective "lesson learned" documentation - eg OOS situations
• Create/define metrics to monitor BO performance (KPI’s)
• Manage cross-functional monthly meetings with BO’s + local production team - discuss forecasts, planned ordering cycle and BO performance.
• Complete special projects and assignments as requested

• Degree in Supply Chain Management or similar.
• 5 years’ experience in import/exports in the liquor industry.
• Experience in demand/replenishment forecast planning/forecast tools and ERP systems (eg SAP, JDE).
• Risk Management, Operational Performance Optimisation, Operations Planning Optimisation.
• Production and Process Management, Logistics Optimisation, Procurement, Creativity and Innovation, Business & Financial Acumen, Customer Service & Quality Orientation, Project and Change Management
• Problem Solving, Commercial Awareness, Leading and Developing Others,
• Teamwork, Influencing Skills, Building and Maintaining Collaborative Relationships, Strategic Planning, Adaptability.