Inventory Planning Manager BeNeLux

Location: Belgium

SIRE® is the market leader in Life Sciences recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continuous innovation. We like technology, in a Life Sciences market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!Our client is a professional Food and FMCG organisation, based in Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Belgium.

The Company

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We are looking for an energized Inventory Planning Manager BeNeLux.
- Do you want to work for a leading Multinational in a position in Utrecht and Brussels?
- Do you want to have a huge impact on customers’ service?
- Can you find the best balance between service and inventory costs?
- Are you able to manage multiple stakeholders?

Then read on for this great opportunity!

Role Description

You will manage and coach a team of seven planners in Belgium and the Netherlands and report directly to the Demand Manager BeNeLux. You will be the key driver to facilitate the short-term demand and ensure that the organization achieves the target service levels at the lowest cost as possible.

The Inventory Manager is accountable to deliver the targeted service level and obsoletes for all categories and to initiate and accommodate improvement plans with regard to supply and demand in cooperation with its stakeholders. The objective is to improve customer (perceived) service performance internally as well as externally, resulting in optimized stock levels for its category. As you will be working in a commercial environment, you will also be the sparring partner for the sales and marketing departments by giving advice relating to the customer joint planning to drive optimal supply chain processes. The Distribution Requirement Planning (DRP) is part of the Planning Department (PD) that is part the Customer Service and Logistics (CS&L) organization. CS&L is the linking pin between supply and demand. It is responsible to manage demand and supply operations to optimize customer case fill performance and inform stakeholders about any stock risks and opportunities. The scope of CS&L encloses the stock positions of all categories.

Responsibilities

Key focus areas:
- Alignment between demand forecast and supply ability
- Improvement on inventory management, obsoletes reduction
- Replenishment and purchasing processes for new/existing contracts of manufacturers
- Development of customer relationships externally with key accounts and internally with the department commercialization, finance, supply chain, central planning, purchasing and logistics
- Manage and coach the team enabling them to drive the best results by day to day operational tasks and forward looking improvements

Requirements

- Master’s degree is required, preferably in economics or supply chain/ logistics
- You already have a couple of years of experience within supply planning (inventory - not only demand planning) and managing a team
- Fluent in Dutch and English (French is a plus)
- You have a can-do attitude with a pro-active and solution driven approach;
- You are analytical, service driven and able to balance well between service and costs;
- You are communicative, with a high energy level and you easily integrate in a dynamic team;
- Able to translate operational information to tactical communication;
- Has an entrepreneurial attitude to drive performance and business growth;
- Solid understanding of IT systems, able to take processes to the next level.

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Joost Spape.