Supply Chain Lead

We have built our first ever innocent-owned factory, called ‘the blender’, and we’re looking for a Supply Chain Lead to ensure we can deliver the best service to our drinkers. We are on a really exciting mission and have ambitious and inspirational goals which will be setting us apart from many typical factories. To us this means doing the right thing by balancing our people, the planet and profit.

In the role you’ll be accountable for the supply chain and logistics of everything related to making our drinks. You’ll be responsible for the in-year plan, whilst developing and delivering both long-term and short-term sustainability goals. You’ll be driving a culture of continuous improvement and innovation, as well as ensuring top-notch safety standards.

Leadership

• Be a beacon of the company’s values and culture
• Engage, coach, develop and retain the team’s newly recruited (so low collective experience) talent
• Lead a high performing supply chain (raw materials planning, production scheduling, inventory control) team which continuously raises its game, in line with our values
• Contribute to factory management team on overall strategy, leadership development initiatives and building a workplace to be proud of
• Ensure team objectives are clear, contribute to overall network performance and manage performance in order to hit them
• Manage team administration (from supply chain team budget to people system administration)
• Deliver against key people processes to a high standard and role model manager behaviours, e.g. development conversations, “grandparent chats”, coaching, succession planning & talent mapping

Planning team performance, strategy & communications

• Champion safety in everything we do, so it becomes our standard way of thinking.
• Contribute to 3 year strategy planning and own 1 year plan for the team to deliver company strategy, to then be accountable for in-year delivery against plan
• Ensure KPI reporting and reason codes completed on time in full by the team for daily, weekly and monthly reporting/escalations
• Develop planning solutions (production, materials and workforce) together with procurement, technical, factory operations, IT and suppliers; building strong partnerships and giving clear direction.
• Play an active role representing the planning team as part of the factory leadership team
• Ensure planning procedures and instructions are documented, adhered to and updated
• Track and report planning-driven financial variances against budget
• Cascade company communications & updates from BLT to the planning team

Adding more value

• Establish and maintain good working relationships with suppliers and partners, following the supplier relationship management guidelines
• Partner with factory leadership team and capacity manager to ensure the factory ramp up plan for production volumes to hit our budgeted production targets
• Support the team in the implementation and hyper care of MRP within our ERP system
• Set up processes to map our supply chain capability, reliability & predictability, then lead the approach to improve

• Outstanding leadership, coaching, management and communications skills and experience;
• Experience in supply planning & scheduling
• Manufacturing leadership experience
• Experienced in working with and optimising ERP-systems
• Impeccable levels of organisation, time management and attention to detail.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally in a matrix organisation
• An operationally focused leader with high EQ that earns respect from team and peers
• Able to engage a team on a continuous improvement journey
• Dutch and English language skills

This is an exciting and challenging role in a fast and dynamic company, who want to keep doing business the right way. You can make a real difference in finding a better way of operating a factory. You’ll get:

• a good salary in scale 10 in our own Innocent Drinks CAO (EUR 4801,- - EUR 6088,-)
• to be the ‘conductor’ of the supply chain team for the ramp up phase and our first phases of the production;
• the opportunity to input into improvements and optimisations, not just in role but also in our quest to do things right for our people, planet and community;
• the experience to work in a ‘start up’ environment, whilst still being part of the wider innocent family;