Cartier Jewelry Supply Chain Manager JOB PROFILE (for recruitment purpose only) Technical skills / abilities:

Job description

MAIN PURPOSE

Under the direct supervision of the Supply Chain Director, the Jewelry Supply Chain Manager overlooks at the full scope of operation and Supply Chain, related to Jewelry categories.

 

As a core mission, the Manager ensures that supply, allocation decisions, stock targets and operational flows are in line with company direction. In his/her team, the Manager will gather all activities from demand, supply and distribution planning, together with execution (store planning) functions.

Thanks to his/her deep understanding of ERP logic, supply chain flows and operating models, as well as local business practices, the manager will bring a continuous improvement mindset. Seeking for optimization and acceleration, he/she will challenge local processes, and bring new initiatives to HQ.

 

Thanks to his/her drive and leadership, the manager will accompany the organizational transformation of the Maison, aiming at operational excellence and client satisfaction maximization.

 

Thanks to his/her analytics skills, as well as his/her expertise of the business & product category, the Manager will provide insights timely, and recommendations to both the Directors and other internal stakeholders.

 

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

 

Key responsibility 1 – Demand, Supply and Distribution Planning (MD team)

·  Deliver the monthly sales forecast at the model level by network, in a realistic projection. Adjust accordingly in collaboration with the Marketing / Sales Channel’s strategy to achieve networks’ sales potential and company revenue for the rolling 12M
·  With Commercial Teams & Marketing, elaborate New Product Launch planning and strategy.
·  With deep understanding of the Replenishment model, define with Central Operations team the target for the subsidiary, and its seasonal evolution, based on the sales planning and local strategy
·  Define and manage product assortment for all stores, based on their specificities at the reference level, in line with defined BTQ typologies and predefined KPI – for finished and semi-finished products.
·  Ensure fluid and transparent with the management of main stakeholders on those matters (marketing, commercial, HQ, exco).
·  Coordinate the discussions with local Richemont CS teams and especially about SFY workload to guarantee the right level of activity.

 

Key responsibility 2 –Stock & Order Management (Store Planning team)

·  Ensure optimum stock availability at the store level, for all networks.
·  Leveraging dynamic reporting tools, permanently measure stock performance, and execute stock balancing between stores when required, in line with the typology strategy. Monitor stock rotation at store level.
·  Monitor stock returns, to have them executed in time, and in the most efficient way for the teams involved
·  Follow up client firm orders for all networks, ensure a timely and accurate response. Follow up invoicing and challenge cancellation rates/aged reservations
·  Handle the Fair assortment planning and package, coordination with related Departments.
·  Ensure fluid and transparent with the management of main stakeholders on those matters (marketing, commercial, HQ, WH, exco)

 

Key responsibility 3 – Analytics, Intelligence, Projects  

·  Design and build analytics works, to deepen the understanding of the business and its evolution. But also, to help the team with tools and templates, to improve the overall efficiency, and maximize the time allocated to value added tasks.
·  Proactively work with HQ on Supply Chain initiatives, feed a permanent feedback loop to raise local opinion, views and insights.
·  Project member/leader on company-wide transversal projects linked operations and innovation.

 

Key responsibility 4 – Team Management

·  Team members development, empowerment and upskill.
·  Team evolution planning, and talent recruitment.
·  Create opportunities of evolution between product categories and departments, to enable exchanges of experiences and skills, while keeping the team dynamic.
·  Translate the One-Team & One-Stock vision into concrete organization actions.

 

Key responsibility 5 – One team, innovation and learning

·  Seek opportunity to improve processes efficiency, collaborate with cross functional teams.
·  Share and acquire knowledge with your peers, to build efficient backup structure within MDSC
·  Aim at further simplification and better visibility.
·  Improve client experience through better BTQs support with stock control among BTQs and WH and maximize sales potential.
·  Be required to learn business structure and business negotiation for client. Support some fairs or visit shops to understand clients and partners.

 

JOB PROFILE (for recruitment purpose only)

 

Required experience:

 

Supply Chain, IT, Analytics, Engineering

 

Technical skills / abilities:

Graduate from Engineer or Business school.

High Level on Excel, PowerBI, DAX and SQL are a plus

Fluent in English and French

ERP experience, SAP experience

Self-motivated, quick learner, positive attitude, ability to plan and able to work under pressure

Project Management skills

Strong analytical skills, business acumen and commercially driven

Team player with communicational skills