Job description:
about us:
diageo is the world’s leader company on premium spirit drinks with a remarkable and diverse collection of brands, including don julio, unión, casamigos, johnnie walker, smirnoff, baileys, captain morgan, tanqueray and guinness. Our purpose is to celebrate life everyday everywhere has a very important role for our company, for our people, for our diversity, our brand and how we perform and create shares value. Diageo's performance ambition is to become the most trusted and respected cpg ranked #1 in service. Within supply chain this translates into goals that aim to deliver world class service at best cost and cash, driving value to enable new growth opportunities.
About you:
we are looking for a person responsible for e2e planning for the category. This covers demand mastery (from depletion and shipment to production orders), liquid production mps, bottling mps, drp and dry goods supply mrp to deliver the expected volume required sourced for this category.
Leads the s&op with key markets and covers the globe (innovation review, demand review, supply review and executive review). Needs to master the portfolio of innovations to ensure they are coordinated in business plan, supply plan and financial plan through s&op process.
Owns digital capability development of his organization in line with category ambition and skill requirements. Leads the category capability and maturity development plan.
Looks for best service at affordable cost and cash to deliver nsv and gm expected by the company. The category planning manager owns the operating strategy for his category to deliver business objectives short term (18 month) and long-term (10 years).
About the role:
- owns the definition/renewal of the category operating strategy (cos)
- accountable for case fill rate/otifne results
- lead s&op for the category
- accountable for overall inventory management; including slobs
- drives long-term capacity decisions via long term capacity planning
- ensures sufficiency of category business continuity plans
- masters segmentation for his category
- masters category demand for 18 months minimum and 10 years
- masters category innovation portfolio and alignment to cos
- master category supply plan and secure c/d compliance to cos.
- lead executive reviews for his brand/sub-category
- owns sku efficiency and gate control for new sku/format creation via i&bc
- engage on any business potential issue to help/lead driving resolution (quality incidents, internal control issues, strikes, and bcp activation across the e2e supply chain, etc.).
- right supply base with procurement
- right manufacturing network (diageo sites/co-maker’s) to optimize cash and cost driving ‘speed to market’ and service
- right customization choices to meet markets/customer needs if needed
- address any supply disruption or conflict situation through consensus solutions or recommendations for critical issues.
- represent supply in leading the rccp process, balancing demand and supply signals whilst ensuring strategy and annual targets can be delivered.
- accelerate organization capability development
- develop and deploy a digital disruption/improvement plan.
- lead and embed continuous improvement agenda using run-to-target methodology across multifunctional teams enabling effective delivery of performance improvement plans prioritized by business targets.
- track progress of maturity improvement plan and course correct to consistently ensure projected benefits are achieved.
- coach, mentor and develop category planning team.
- represents commercial teams within product supply and represents product supply within category commercial teams.
Metrics
- business focused specific objective (growth=nsv/gm/volume)
- cfr/otifne
- inventory - cash
- c/d ratio adherence
- innovation transition with no out-of-stock
- cost savings/control (slobs, scrap, airfreight)
- all in-process planning important metrics for thecategory (mps adherence, sequencing adherence
- material ‘stock to norm’ (within operating windows), reaction time, cycle time, supplier reliability)
experience/ skills required
- 8 years of supply chain planning experience in cpg.
- english & spanish fluent
- additionally, some wider cross-planning experience is preferable e.g. I&bc, drp, cs, manufacturing
- team management experience is required
- proficient in analytics tools: power bi, tableau, mashzone
- proficient in planning tools: sap apo, robot, omp
we offer stellar benefits!
Diversity statement:
celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is central to diageo's purpose to 'celebrate life every day everywhere'. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values veryone regardless of their origin, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.
We know that for our business to thrive and for diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of th