Supply Planning Manager (Hiring Immediately)

Supply Planning Manager
12 month fixed-term contract (FTC)

About Charlotte Tilbury Beauty
Founded by British makeup artist and beauty entrepreneur Charlotte Tilbury MBE in 2013, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has revolutionised the face of the global beauty industry by de-coding makeup applications for everyone, everywhere, with an easy-to-use, easy-to-choose, easy-to-gift range. Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty continues to break records across countries, channels, and categories and to scale at pace.

Over the last 10 years, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has experienced exceptional growth and is one of the most talked about brands in the beauty industry and beyond. It has become a global sensation across 50 markets (and growing), with over 2,300 employees globally who are part of the Dream Team making the magic happen.

Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty is a truly global business, delivering market-leading growth, innovative retail and product launches fuelled by industry-leading tech — all with an internal culture of embracing challenges, disruptive thinking, winning together, and sharing the magic. The energy behind the bran­d is infectious, and as we grow, we are always looking for extraordinary talent who want to be part of this our success and help drive our limitless ambitions.

About the role
A key operational role within a rapidly expanding luxury beauty brand, the Supply Planning Manager is responsible for delivering world class product availability for the Charlotte Tilbury brand.

The role balances the need to lead the Supplier facing planning activities for some of our largest Contract manufacturers with supporting their direct reports in managing the same processes for numerous smaller Suppliers. The role requires the individual to use data, parameters and systems to manage replenishment decisions and processes whilst using excellent relationship management skills to gain supplier support.

As a member of the Supply Planning management team the individual will be responsible for managing many internal stakeholders to drive the necessary decisions required to support supply excellence at minimal possible cost.

This role provides the successful candidate with the opportunity to develop and hone people management skills whilst maintaining the opportunity for personal workload delivery. It provides the opportunity to develop the skills necessary to facilitate leadership decision making processes. The right candidate will have to be self-starting, will demonstrate resilience, can quickly prioritise and build strong relationships with multiple stakeholders in the business.

As a Supply Planning Manager you will

• Line Management and support of a number (up to 4) supply planners / snr Supply Planners.
• Responsible for the global stock position for a portion of the CT portfolio.
• Responsible for translating the demand plan into an actionable supply plan
• Manages the transactional processes within systems that support order call off and time based updates on inventory status / availability
• Responsible for day to day supplier management to meet business requirements, including expediting goods where necessary
• Works with Supply Planning deployment team to enable them to provide accurate and timely updates on regional product availability.
• Management and financial reporting of stock position, stock projection and current purchase plan across planning horizon
• Communication of risks and opportunities against stock profile
• Management of supplier reviews with key suppliers
• Responsible for maintaining accurate free issue inventories in 3rd party locations with reconciliations for any variances
• Provides clear decision support data and insights within and outside of S&OP forums
• Day to day management of suppliers to monitor over / under / late / early deliveries to proactively manage availability communications
• Reports into the Head of Global Supply Planning
• Up to 4 direct reports in same location covering supply planning

About you

• Supply Chain Planning experience
• Experience or demonstrated aptitude for people management
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and influencing skills
• Advanced Excel user
• Accurate with attention to detail to be able to challenge and spot errors
• Proven analytical skills able to produce, interpret, draw conclusions and present data
• Ability to work at pace
• Resourceful in ambiguous situations
• Can grasp complex matters quickly
• Rapidly builds trustful relationships with a broad range of stakeholders
• Anticipates the future and plans ahead, even when confronted with setbacks
• Displays a growth mindset: is curious]]>