Supply Chain Manager

Job Description:

Get ready to Own professionalization as a Supply Chain Manager at Nutreco, an SHV company. As global leaders in animal nutrition and aquafeed, our shared purpose of Feeding the Future is making a positive global impact for generations to come. Join us in this transformational role and Own your playbook, Own your impact and Own your career growth.

The Supply & Demand Planning Manager is responsible for the Supply & Demand Planning process at Operating Company/BU level. This position will be in Japan and Native or equivalent level of Japanese language and Business English is required.

• The Supply & Demand Planning Manager oversees managing and coordinating the OpCo’s/BU Supply & Demand Planning function.
• Moreover she/he is focusing on sustainably deploying the Nutreco Supply & Demand planning standards across the Opco/BU and incites a continuous improvement mindset that drives a step-by-step improvement of the Supply Planning Process and cycle. Ultimate deliverable is the sustainable improvement of the IBP maturity towards level 3.

The Supply & Demand Planning Manager is the link with Operations, Maintenance, Procurement, Formulation, Supply Chain teams and suppliers as well as (global) supply points

• •Opco/BU Supply & Demand Strategy
• •Provide input to the Supply Chain strategy and Opco/BU IBP strategy
• •Develops and ensure execution of the Supply & Demand strategy for the own Supply Chain department in order to improve supply excellence
• •Develop and ensure execution of the Plan policy for the own remit in line with the overall Supply Chain strategy
• •Contribute pro-actively to the strategic planning process (>15 months horizon)
• •Defines strategy for new businesses by analysing the latest trends and developments in the market and translating this to the own department
• •Lead and drive the demand segmentation process.

• •Integrated Business Supply & Demand Planning
• •Aligned with Plant/Operations and third-party suppliers, co-drive the execution of the IBP process (operational and tactical horizon), organize all meetings according to the Nutreco standards, support and facilitate the Financial Forecasting Process
• •Participate, prepare, facilitate and lead assigned Supply meetings according to IBP standards
• •Prepare scenario decision documents for IBP process
• •Balance demand and supply in the most optimal way in terms of volume, revenues, costs, and margin and develop scenarios for decision making.
• •Provide procurement, supply points and logistics departments with production plans in line with service levels, inventory, production parameters, targets and guidelines
• •Provide the commercial organisation with approved plans to fulfil demand
• •Optimize and implement changes to the supply network of the Opco/BU, in line with targets and guidelines (focus on OTIF and EBIT improvement), while understanding the impact for supply points connected to the network. Manage supply planning resources (capacity, critical materials, human resources) strategy & development for the IBP

• •Demand Planning
• •Develops and ensure execution of the Demand Planning strategy to improve demand excellence.
• •Leads the Demand Planning cycles, collaborates actively internally (Sales & Marketing) and with Customers driving for high Forecast Accuracy and low Bias
• •Supervise and consolidate the Opco’s/BU’s unconstrained (or agreed upon constrained) demand plans from the demand planners into the Opco/BU IBP demand plan as input for the IBP Demand and Supply Network Plan
• •Supervise Opco’s/BU’s Account Review and Demand Review meeting(s)
• •Communicate/report to the demand planners and commercial teams’ decisions/constraints from the IBP cycle and drive the related actions to take place in the organisation
• •First point of contact for the commercial organization (Sales, Marketing, Species teams, Key Account team) for the operational and/or tactical planning horizon
• •Understand the impact of business dynamics (NPD/NPI, EOL, promotions, events, seasonality, tenders, contracts) in the demand plan
• •Understand, apply and maintain Opco’s/BU’s priority rule book (product & customer) based on input from Species, Key Account team and/or commercial teams (sales, marketing and formulation) and manage in case of e.g. constraints and matching of demand & supply

• •Supply Planning
• •Manage team responsible for preparing and optimizing the operational and tactical planning for the assigned supply network (internal and external capacity); by balancing demand, inventory and production and packaging capacity, identify constraints and opportunities as input for IBP and acquire agreement with the assigned supply points on the supply plan (tactical, operational as well as day to day (local) execution)
• •Responsible for production planning, (raw) materials planning and intra- supply planning.
• •Drive the execution of the S&OE process (operational), organize all meetings according to the Nutreco standards.
• •Responsible for ensuring that Planning Parameters within the ERP system are regularly reviewed and maintained by the team with clear ownership and accountability within the team.
• •Responsible for making day-to-day decisions, where planning conflicts occur (E.g insufficient capacity for multiple orders) and where relevant, escalating for resolution to the Regional Supply Chain Manager.
• •Provide the supply points with a realistic and attainable planning, in line with the identified guidelines and constraints.
• •Discuss yearly maintenance plans with the plants
• •Develop relationships of trust with both internal & external parties, e.g. suppliers
• •Communicate/report to the supply planners and commercial teams' decisions/constraints from the IBP cycle and drive the related actions to take place in the organisation
• •First point of contact for the commercial organization (Sales, Marketing, Species teams, Key Account team) for the operational and/or tactical planning horizon
• •Understand the impact of business dynamics (NPD/NPI, EOL, promotions, events, seasonality, tenders, contracts) in the supply plan
• •Understand, apply and maintain Opco’s/BU’s priority rule book (product & customer) based on input from Species, Key Account team and/or commercial teams (sales, marketing and formulation) and manage in case of e.g. constraints and matching of supply & supply

• •Inventory & Working Capital Management
• •Define and implement inventory and replenishment targets and apply inventory segmentation effectively.
• •Manage the team that is responsible for the inventory processes and ensure that inventory covers the projected demand (correct DIO for RM and FG)
• •Manage and optimize working capital in line with the agreed targets according to the inventory management guidelines, replenish relevant warehouses (in line with targets), follow up on aging stock and obsoletes and acquire agreement with demand, procurement, and logistics (day-to-day contact and fixed meeting structure)

• •KPIs and Continuous Improvement & Management Information
• •Maintains the relevant KPI’s such as OTIF, capacity utilization and stock levels (working capital), including supplier and procurement (RMR and 3rd party manufacturing) performance evaluation methods
• •Observe and evaluate bottlenecks and identify opportunities and drives improvement actions in supply planning and supply consolidation related processes, planning systematics, procedures and/or systems, and ensure implementation of improvements after approval in the Opco/BU.
• •Be the owner of KPI dashboards, insights and decision documents regarding quantitative and qualitative developments by means of periodical (e.g. IBP, budget) and ad hoc reports and/or analyses, based on reporting guidelines to drive PDCA cycle in your area of expertise
• •Responsible for developing insightful, actionable and user friendly KPI dashboards and reports and share with relevant stakeholders
• •Participates in Community of Practice and drive local implementation of CoE initiativ