I am excited to be partnering with a global manufacturing business, who are currently looking for a Global Supply Planning Manager to join their team and play a pivotal role in driving operational excellence, through optimising efficiencies and driving improvements to key business metrics, whilst fostering a culture of growth and collaboration.

In this role, you will be leading a team of experienced supply planners and working closely with global cross-functional teams, to ensure seamless production and delivery of products, to help meet customer demands.

About the role:

• Lead and mentor a team of supply planners
• Collaborate closely with global stakeholders across manufacturing, commercial, and finance teams to help optimise supply signals, inventory, and production processes.
• Play a key part in S&OP process, providing insight and recommendations to help guide decision-making at senior leadership level.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to support new product launches and lifecycle management activities.

About you:

• Proven experience in supply planning within a manufacturing environment
• Experience managing a range of 3rd party and in-house manufacturing partners and working collaboratively with international stakeholders
• Great stakeholder management skills and ability to communicate effectively and concisely.
• Strong analytical skills and planning system experience; ideally experience working with SAP IBP

Pod Talent are independent specialist recruiters in the Supply Chain, Procurement, Logistics, Manufacturing and R&D space covering roles internationally from entry to board level. We recruit for roles including Supply Chain, Demand Planning, Inventory Management, Direct and Indirect Procurement, Category Management, Logistics, Distribution, Warehousing, Production, Packaging, NPD and Quality Assurance. Please visit our website for all of our vacancies.