Customer Supply Chain Specialist
The candidate should understand the principles of supply planning and order management, communicate clearly and be able to ideate process improvement.
This is a hybrid role, 3 days per week in our Marylebone office and 2 days from home.
Principle Accountabilities:
End-to-End Inbound Supply Management
- Take full ownership of the inbound supply process — from shipment tracking through to 3PL receipt — ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and complete data integrity across systems.
- Independently investigate and resolve inbound discrepancies through data reconciliation and direct stakeholder engagement, closing issues without requiring escalation.
- Proactively identify upstream supply risks and initiate mitigation actions to protect service levels before issues reach the customer.
Order Fulfilment & Customer Service Excellence
- Act as the primary escalation point for free-of-charge and ecommerce order fulfilment issues, autonomously diagnosing root causes and implementing resolutions in partnership with the warehouse and Senior Order Fulfillment Specialist.
- Manage free-of-charge order processing and return authorisation workflows, minimising cost exposure while protecting customer relationships.
Inventory Optimisation & Accuracy
- Maintain rigorous inventory accuracy between 3PL and internal systems, conducting regular reconciliations and driving prompt resolution of discrepancies in collaboration with the Senior Customer Supply Planner
- Partner with the Senior Customer Supply Planner to develop and execute inventory balancing strategies across UK and PL warehouses, contributing commercial insight to prioritisation decisions.
- Independently manage e-commerce channel inventory availability, proactively resolving fulfilment issues to protect website sell-through and customer experience.
Process Improvement & Commercial Impact
- Take ownership of continuously evaluating existing supply chain processes — including order management, inbound logistics, inventory control, and returns — to identify inefficiencies and areas of opportunity, autonomously driving improvements from identification through to execution.
- Develop clear process documentation and embed new ways of working across relevant teams and systems, ensuring improvements are sustainable and scalable.
- Build and maintain reporting that delivers actionable insight on supply chain performance, using data to drive decision-making and influence stakeholders across commercial, finance, and operations functions.
Key Working Relationships:
- 3PL Warehouse
- Senior Customer Supply Planner
- Senior Demand Planning Manager
- Senior Order Fulfillment Specialist
- EMEA Commercial, Finance, Marketing and PR teams departments
- Customers
Skills/Experience
- Proven experience in supply chain coordination, inventory management, or logistics — ideally within FMCG, beauty, or a similarly fast-paced consumer goods environment.
- A demonstrable track record of owning, executing and improving operational processes.
- Strong proficiency in ERP systems — NetSuite experience is highly advantageous.
- Advanced Excel skills and comfort working with data to build reports, identify trends, and support decision-making.
- Experience working with 3PL providers and a solid understanding of warehouse operations and fulfilment flows.
- Excellent communication skills — confident presenting performance data, influencing cross-functional teams, and managing customer relationships with credibility.
- The ability to manage multiple priorities autonomously in a dynamic, global environment, including flexibility to collaborate with international colleagues across time zones.
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