Supply Chain Specialist - Health and Beauty (FTC)

This role is open exclusively to internal colleagues who have been formally placed under consultation. Applications from other colleagues will not be considered at this stage.

While we are committed to supporting colleagues during this period, applicants will still be required to demonstrate that they meet the essential criteria for the role as part of the selection process.

Role Purpose

To take ownership for outstanding availability at store, depot and item level in designated product categories whilst delivering against stock and waste targets to minimise cash impacts to the business. Actively participating in running and improving the business team.

Accountabilities

Customer

● Working with the business team to ensure systems data is input in a timely manner to ensure no impact to availability at a Group level

● Owning end to end product, data and performance for their categories

● Own the escalations at the right time where opportunities/risks arise in regards to product flow ● Lead the category availability of product flow measures within the business team.

Colleague

● Prioritise and re-prioritise in day

● Work with business teams on strategic improvements for their categories such as: ○ Case size optimising ○ Lead time optimisation ○ Waste improvement ○ End to end productivity ○ Lowest cost to serve ○ Exception management

● Develop strong collaborative relationships with the full Business Team who work on the category to agree the optimum levels of products to meet sales demand

Operational

● Actively managing their supplier base

● Negotiate with suppliers on service performance

● Report accurately on KPI performance and communicate supply chain category performance out to the wider business in a clear, concise way to drive decision making and action

● Work with suppliers and provide accurate information to plan stock levels effectively to maximise sales

● Identified opportunities for improvement across, stock, availability and waste

● Understand complex data and present recommendations in a clear and concise way to different stakeholders

● Analyse large pieces of complex data

● Actively drive actions that will reduce forecasting variability for their categories

● Own the sales alignment for categories

● Improve availability all the way through the end to end supply chain from supplier to shelf edge (group)

Sales, Profit and Cash

● Review promotional performance and stock targets on a weekly basis and agree actions with trading to limit impact to inventory levels or wastage at store

● Give suppliers accurate information to plan stock levels effectively to maximise sales

● Influence and work with the commercial teams to make decisions that improve availability and reduce waste

Role Specific Knowledge,

Skills & Experience

Knowledge

● Strong knowledge of end to end stock flow and processes, from supplier to end customer

● Good understanding of Retail processes

● Strong Data analysis

● Strong knowledge of commercial / financial data

Skills

● Project Management skills

● Numerical skills

● Organisational Skills

● Stakeholder relationship

● Communication and influence

● Ability to summarise complex information

● Ability to use technical systems

● Highly competent in Excel and Google platform.

Experience

● Used to working with and understanding sometimes complex data

● Used to communicating at multiple levels within a business or organisation

● Working within a supply chain environment or a role where they have experienced accountability for the flow of stock

● Previous retail or logistics experience would be beneficial