Product Supply Manager - Watford
- Recruiter
- Wickes
- Location
- Watford
- Salary
- GBPCompetitive + benefits
- Posted
- 17 Jun 2017
- Closes
- 27 Jun 2017
- Sectors
- Business Opportunities
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Wickes is more than just the nation's favourite DIY store. We're part of the Travis Perkins Group, one of the UK's top employers. That's why the first thing you'll notice at Wickes is the way everyone pulls together. It's a place where we'll ask for your ideas, listen to your opinions and value the contributions you make. Chances are you've never experienced anything quite like our culture. All our colleagues come from different backgrounds, but what we all have in common is a determination to succeed and a passion for being the best we can be. If that sounds like you, we'll make you feel right at home.
The role we're recruiting for;
The Supply Chain team, have a role for a Product Supply Manager. The main purposes of the role will be to support senior management in achieving business targets.
- To lead and manage a team to achieve availability, cost and service to ensure departmental targets are met and exceeded. To inspire a team to deliver outstanding customer service whilst working within the company framework and objectives.
- To manage individual Supply Chain Analysts with their development, systems knowledge and ability to enable them to meet defined individual and department targets.
- To represent Supply Chain in promotional, range change and natural work team meetings to ensure data capture and necessary input from Supply Chain.
- To challenge and improve the business processes and systems, completing projects, tracking and reporting the resulting benefits.
- To help develop TP talent and create managers of the future, to ensure minimal disruption within departments and to keep knowledge within supply chain.
This role will report in to the Head of Product Supply
Principle Accountabilities
- To manage the product supply processes to ensure all orders are placed accurately and timely to drive optimum minimum project quantity availability in store
- To ensure DC stock-holding and inbound plans support achieved sales to ensure maximum order fulfilment .
- To ensure forecasts and supplier orders are accurate and timely for all lines to drive full availability.
- To resolve or escalate all supplier performance issues impacting availability.
- To assist in the management of total business unit stock and availability to identify any under performing areas and investigate and take action with the analyst as appropriate.
- To manage seasonal uplifts and seasonal system inputs to ensure maximum availability and efficient usage of the system, supporting the CSM in ensuring that stockholding is kept in line with budget / AOP.
- To support category supply analysts with supplier meetings, to produce reporting packs and recommendations for improvement and ensure full root cause analysis is completed with the appropriate action to resolve
- Manage range change activity from discontinued SKUs to new line introduction - ensuring the category supply analysts have timely information and reporting out to the business is clear, any issues highlighted well in advance to budget (stock) and is delivered to store within the company processes
Cost
- To review replenishment parameters with suppliers that will minimise supply chain costs. (E.g.: ordering frequency, vehicle drop size, route to market, order multiples) and implement improvements with suppliers.
- To work with other supply chain colleagues to ensure optimum solutions and best practices are followed to drive availability and minimise stock and supply chain costs.
Communication
- To communicate to all relevant external and internal teams on all availability issues with action taken to resolve any issues that may impact sales or service.
- To work closely with the Commercial teams to identify areas to drive sales, reduce stock and improve availability.
- To identify and implement agreed process improvements.
Quantitative Information
- Responsible for the supply coordination of between 250 - 1000 SKUs
- Management of up to 4 supply chain analysts
- Stock holding up to GBP40m
- Up to 50 suppliers
A full job description is available prior to interview.
What are we looking for?
- Previous experience in Product Supply / Logistics (stock management or forecasting) - ideal 3 years. Educated to Degree Level or equivalent. Ability to manage self through proven prioritisation and ability to cope with peaks in workload both increase and decrease. Ability to work in a diverse supply chain environment (i.e., constant changing environment).
- High level of analytical and system skills; Intermediate Excel skills, PC literate.
- Good questioning skills - ability to challenge constructively.
- Listening skills - to understand potential impacts on product supply and determine corrective course of action
- Decision-making skills - ability to escalate when appropriate.
- Ability to forward plan - for promotions / range reviews and manage self to accommodate when workload increases/decreasing.
- Good communication skills - can give information without being prompted, produces information that can add value to the business and understands when issues impacting business needs to be communicated and knows how to do this in a constructive manner
- Ability to work in a pressurised daily routine environment - able to react to changes in daily routines and can prioritise self without impacting own workload or team.
- Ability to prioritise and methodically structure own workload
- Ability to adhere to defined processes and procedures - can also design and implement improvements to processes
- Has a "can-do" attitude