Category Planner - #52544

Reporting to the Head of Supply Chain Central, the Category Planner - Central Hub is responsible for the availability of inventory to support the Central sales plan, ensuring that inventory levels are optimised across clusters. They are responsible for identifying issues such as excess or low stock and driving through the decision making to resolve it, and supporting all decisions with the appropriate information and reporting.

This role is a 6-month contract to cover for maternity leave.

About The Role

• Ensure communication with cluster and Category Planners for priorities for stock as well as NPD and excess stock.
• Ensuring that inbound containers are prioritised against stock and sales plans
• Monitoring of receipt plans, providing regular update on inventory levels and flagging in case of short term stock issues are foreseen with the region and clusters
• Defining the cluster /market allocation and ensuring that stock receipt plans reflect this
• Defining the safety stock policy and values for the region with the support of Category planners
• Producing weekly stock projection at cluster/market level including inbounds, forecast and actuals to be distributed across the region.
• Producing out of stock reports and other stock reports and distributing to all relevant parties
• Own and managed the opportunity and rebalance process at regional level across clusters and markets.
• Approved or decline opportunities at regional level.
• Making decisions about the location of stock between markets/clusters and moving stock to optimise inventory
• Ensuring product availability on relevant storage locations in line with forecast, order book, and/or allocation
• Managing the execution of Excess/EOL stock
• Being the connection between SC Central function and Clusters functions for all queries and reporting requirements
• Relish the opportunity to pick up new activities that fall broadly in the purpose of the role
• Identify problems and find solutions

About you:

• Proven experience and passion in driving Inventory processes
• Strong knowledge on Inventory management principles and practice
• Strong reporting skills, including advanced Excel, Power BI, Tableau
• Business and results oriented
• Attention to details without losing bigger picture
• Ability to deliver under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Continuous improvement approach
• Self-motivated, independent, dynamic
• Strong cross functional team skills
• Ability to influence at all levels
• Critical mind-set

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