Senior Supply Planner

Job description

Danoners are steering us to a more sustainable future, helping to make the world healthier. As a certified B-Corp, we have our Danone Impact Journey to 2026. This will only be possible with each and every one of our leaders. Do you want to be one of them? For more information on our Danone Impact Journey click HERE.

Role Purpose:

• Responsible for achieving target customer service levels (CFR) while optimizing the trade-offs between production capacity constraints, inventory levels and waste, ensuring lowest total cost for the organisation

• Manage stock and to targeted inventory levels across UKIE, whilst monitoring shelf life challenges, for total portfolio of around 100 products

• Provide regular supply outlooks and communicate out of stocks to relevant stakeholders with clear commentary around root cause and mitigating actions

• Take the lead to proactively mitigate supply issues on the short, medium and long term horizons

• Supply planning lead in any projects e.g. NPD, portfolio management etc 

 

 

This is a highly interconnected role within the Ops team, where you are empowered to own your scope, and you can see the team’s impact on KPIs on a day to day basis. Working in Supply Planning opens up potential roles and opportunities across all other areas of Operations at Danone. 

 

Key tasks include:

• Ownership of production plans on short term (weekly) and mid/long-term horizons for allocated Supply Points, ensuring Stock Availability and appropriate levels of inventory to cover UK and Ireland Demand and Warehouses. 

• Present CFR/status in Weekly Availability Meeting (Snr Mgt forum) for escalation/resolution

• Ownership for setting optimum safety stock levels, defining best practice processes & driving improvements across the category and with nominated Supply Points

• Responsible for managing stock to targeted inventory levels & proactively working to identify possible write-off, closely monitoring shelf-life challenges, and propose actions to mitigate

• Anticipate over/under capacities and propose solutions in the immediate term to avoid availability issues

• Lead Innovation projects including Phase-In/Phase-Out

 

This role is a 9 month fixed-term contract.

We would like you to demonstrate your following key skills:

• Ideally you'll have some previous Supply chain / Supply Planning functional experience

• Highly agile and with the ability to prioritise and respond to an ever-changing environment

• Results driven and demonstrates a high level of continuous improvement

• Strong data analysis skills, able to produce, interpret and draw conclusions from data

• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, and enjoys cross functional working

•Volatile product planning experience (NPD, highly promotional etc)

• System experience (SAP/APO) desirable

• Advanced excel skills, ideally with some knowledge of PowerBI

 

 

 

Salary Bracket: £45,000 - £50,000

At Danone UK & Ireland, we are committed to delivering better health through better nutrition for millions of consumers and patients in our communities.

 

We have a range of flexible benefits and excellent rewards, click here to find out more.

 

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is deeply embedded in Danone's DNA, representing our core values and beliefs. We embrace diversity as a driving force for positive change, nurturing an inclusive workplace where every individual is valued.

 

The closing date for applications is 18th February, you will therefore hear about your application after this date.