Companion Animal Supply Chain Manager

Trouw Nutrition, Companion Animal has a new opportunity for a Supply Chain Manager to join their team in Highland, IL.

The Supply Chain Manager has full End-to-End (E2E) Supply Chain responsibility for the Planning, Warehousing and Outbound Logistics of the Global Companion Animal Business Unit consisting of Trouw Nutrition USA OpCo sites and working as a liaison for the Companion Animal Global Key Accounts. As such, this role is the key contact between the Commercial Organization, Procurement and Operations as they are responsible for delivering superior customer service, while reducing cost to serve and risk.

As such this role will need to balance working on initiatives/activities across Execution (0-2 weeks), Operational (1-13 weeks), Tactical (1-15 months) and Strategic (1-5 years) horizons, so that we deliver for customers in the immediate term, while improving the overall efficiency of the Supply Chain in the mid-long term

This role will provide strong leadership and direction to the Supply Chain team to focus on improving processes, ways of working and eliminating root cause problems to improve the overall performance of the Supply Chain.
The Supply Chain Manager is the link with supply points and sister OpCo’s served by or sourced from the Global Companion Animal Business U.

Lead End-2-End Customer Supply Chain:

• Demand Planning:

• Leads the Demand Planning cycles, collaborates actively internally (Sales, Marketing and Formulation) and with customers driving high forecast accuracy and low bias

• Supply Planning, Materials and production planning and scheduling:

• Leads the supply planning team(s) for supplying factories in scope, both Nutreco as well as 3rd party (external) supply.
• Balances Demand and Supply in the most optimal way, driving service, inventory, margin, profit to targets. Develops scenarios for decision making.
• Manages the long-term capacity planning of raw material supply based on analysis of sales and raw material forecasting in close cooperation with Formulation, Procurement, Commercial, and Operations management, in order to support the long-term business planning
• Work closely with Quality Assurance Team to ensure supply planning, material planning and production scheduling are in alignment with Customer and Company guidelines.

• Logistics, Transport and Warehousing

• Manages warehouses (Nutreco and 3rd party) in her/his remit, ensuring safe and healthy environment, enabling On Time in Full delivery to customers.
• Closely collaborates with the Trouw logistics buyers & Transportation companies, establishes strong relationship to develop profitable business opportunities; He/ She is in charge of securing highest level of compliance, quality and efficiency on Transport.
• Ensures timely delivery to customers orchestrating logistic set-up, manages transport planning, trucking and shipping companies, invoicing and credit notes, export documentation etc.
• Drives continuous improvement with Logistics Service Providers to improve service, Route to Market and Serve & work with the logistics team

Integrated Business Planning:

• Drives the execution of the IBP process according Nutreco standards, support and facilitate financial forecasting process
• Sustainably effectuate the Nutreco Planning and IBP processes for Opco, region or BU, maintain and continuously improve towards achieving a mature IBP process & cycle in cooperation with procurement and formulation teams.
• Lead the monthly IBP cycle for the Opco, region or BU resulting into One Plan, where the GM/MD is the owner balancing demand & supply for a minimal 15 months’ horizon. Make sure all involved in the process have a cross functional understanding and knows their role and responsibility (RACI)
• Determines targets and ensure realization of performance regarding cost, quality and performance for planning & IBP activities (KPI set)
• Ensures the relevant plan parameters and required master data are up to date, well configured and reviewed on a regular basis representing the requirements of the market(s)
• Assures that quality of data is high and system usage support one number plan

Inventory and working capital management

• Works with procurement to define/implements inventory and replenishment targets, applies inventory segmentation
• Manages the inventory of finished good stock end-2-end processes, ensures inventory reflects the projected demand and optimizes working capital in line with agreed targets

KPI’s

• Determines KPI targets and ensure realization of performance regarding cost, quality and performance of the Supply Chain.
• Ensures the relevant plan parameters and required master data are up to date, well configured and reviewed on a regular basis representing the requirements of the market.

Leadership

•  Sits on the Companion Animal Leadership Team representing the Supply Chain functions
• Builds and leads an effective and impactful SC Team: recruits, coaches, develops, appraises, rewards, counsels and terminates in compliance with Nutreco HR Policies and Standards
• Provides leadership (i.e. setting individual SMART objectives, reviewing performance and providing ongoing feedback on a formal & informal basis) so that all reports are aware of what they are required to achieve and how they are performing against their objectives
• Manages the development and performance of the team members through a culture of coaching, skills development and increased accountability
• Supports the establishment of a culture of leading and collaboration and thereby focusing on improving the supply chain processes and performance
• Builds strong working relationships with key functions to drive improvements within the Opco, region or BU including Finance, Procurement, Formulation, Production and Commercial
• Establish and optimize team processes to balance dynamic business priorities. Embed mechanisms that allow oversight of active projects, resource allocation, tracking to completion and “telling the story”

Continuous Improvement & Projects

• Identifies, benchmarks and implements Supply Chain best practices. Initiates and implements operational improvements through development of control systems within all teams
• Drives the efficiency and effectiveness of all Supply Chain activities to ensure a responsive, robust response to customer demand.
• Initiates root cause analysis and (sustainable) problem solving
• Manages various identified improvement projects

Quality / HSE Compliance

• Assures that all activities and operations are executed in line with HSE / Quality rules, regulations, procedures, instructions, guidelines, and promotes awareness thereof, including addressing anomalies to others

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