Do you want to leave a lasting mark on the European ice cream market? As a Supply Chain Business Partner for Planning & Innovation, you bridge the gap between ambitious product development and flawless execution. You are the central supply chain stakeholder for innovative projects, ensuring that every new product launch is a success from business case validation to stock in the warehouse.
In this role, you navigate a complex international network where you validate manufacturing capabilities, source ingredients, and oversee factory trials. You are not just a follower of processes; you are a proactive advisor who flags risks and unlocks creative solutions to avoid business waste. By partnering directly with planning and marketing, you translate vision into reality, shaping a future-proof portfolio for iconic brands. This is your chance to excellerate your career in a diverse, energized team where your analytical insights lead to maximum results
Next to new product developments, you will be the SC business partner within that platform for savings opportunities. You will do feasibility and scoping to shape the Ice Cream portfolio and ensure the SC capabilities are in place to support the business plan, current and future. In like manner, you will be overseeing all product changes and rollouts. You will coordinate those with marketing & SC stakeholders to ensure flawless execution. As a SC business partner, you are expected to flag risks and be able to explain those well. Finally, unlocking solutions or guiding the business to alternative options is a critical part of the job.
In this role, you can expect to develop a wide array of capabilities, both hard and soft, from which you will benefit for the rest of your career. Think of skills like, project management, network capabilities, ice cream technology, project feasibility, business case judgement, costing, negotiation, planning, among many others. Also, you will get the opportunity to visit multiple factories in our network to scope technical feasibility on the line, and to support on factory trial execution. Our Planning & Innovation team as well as the full EU IC family is a diverse team in many aspects, originating from all over the world and based all over Europe. In line with the values of our Ice Cream business, we are a fun, energized and supportive team that always aims to put a smile on our consumers faces by bringing them the tastiest ice creams whilst delivering value for the company.
Key Responsibilities:
· On-time in-full project delivery: Act as the SC business partner within project teams responsible for delivering value within our Ice Cream business. You’re in charge from a SC perspective for all activities from initial project scoping to 1st production & stock in warehouse.
· Innovation Performance Tracking: After stock in warehouse, you will be closely monitoring the performance of innovations. You will be in charge to flag over- or underperformance and ensure that the reactive actions are taken to avoid business waste of service loss.
· Platform governance: You will be overseeing all product changes within your platform, as well as rollouts of existing products to markets. Here you will ensure perfect execution.
· Risk management: Identify key SC risks and impacts for innovation projects in the process leading up to the launch of the new products. Ensure they are adequately managed and mitigated.
· SC business partner: Guide the project team on limitations and support in finding optimal solutions for innovation projects in our supply chain network.
· Savings: Identify, initiate, and execute opportunities related to cost savings, supply chain resilience, complexity reduction or other initiatives that improve our business.
· Business Waste: For every project identify business waste risks and develop plans to mitigate.
· Analytical: Use data to find trends on growth, profitability, cost structures and other indicators to ensure the right decisions are taken in shaping our Ice Cream portfolio. In addition, support the development of the available tools to manage this process as efficiently as possible.
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