Head of Supply Chain - Sea & Fea

**Role: Head of Supply Chain SEA&FEA** **Want to make an impact where it matters?** At Upfield our purpose is clear: we make people healthier and happier with nutritious and delicious, natural, plant-based products that are good for you, our planet; and with packaging thats free from plastic. We are the largest plant-based company in the world, and we believe in doing whats right for our people, our customers and the planet. Weve got iconic brands like Rama, Country Crock, Blue Band and Flora that people all over the world know and love. Weve been a trusted category leader since 1871 and yet we feel like were only just getting started. Performance, Passion and Care define who we are as a company, how we work every day, and the responsibility we feel toward our Associates, our consumers, our business partners and our world. We have big ambitions to grow this business and we want to attract the right people - those that love what they do, thrive on responsibility and are looking for limitless career defining opportunities. We operate in 95 countries with a leadership position in most. Youll have to enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and it will take hard work and determination; we will give you the ownership you need to make an impact. Youll have to deliver on the commitments you make. And well give you the freedom and flexibility to do your job and build your own career. **Type of individual we are looking for**: You will develop and lead our Sales Inventory and Operations Planning (S&OP) process and ensure the capabilities are in place to excel in customer satisfaction. You will lead a team handling and directly responsible for all MRP activities, ensuring we optimize our cost to deliver models and that goods movement along all aspects of our value chain runs smoothly. Additionally, your team will be instrumental in optimizing our cash position through effective inventory management and ensuring that our consumers always have the choice of an Upfield product. This is clearly a hands-on job! We do not have ivory towers, global category or customer development teams, complex and lengthy decision-making processes, nor do we want people who would want to create any of that. And we are very serious about that! We almost created a process. Almost. We do need; winners, those who can move mountains, are not afraid to fail, learn and get back up again, who deliver extraordinary results and are having a whole lot of fun whilst doing that! Those who like to _work hard and play hard!- High Bias for Action! Mount Everest high! - Entrepreneurial mind-set! You want to have your own company a couple of years from now! But hack, lets do this first! - Proven ability to lead a multi-cultural, multi-functional team. - Proven track-record of managing distributors with complete rigor and discipline. - Strong business acumen and organizational awareness. This means, you know what is going on around you at all times. You see BS coming from a mile away. - Strong stakeholder management skills (which comes with the territory of being a sound and solid senior customer developer). Its in your DNA. - The first thing you think about when you wake up, are your customers. You could even say, you are a little bit obsessed about your customers and what makes them tick. - You feel as comfortable in an office as you do in a pile of mud. From the inner city, to the rural countryside, from modern trade to general trade, from nearby places to far away remote locations, it all equally excites you. - You like people and people like you (most of the times). - You can develop a strong and professional team around you that is cut from the same wood. - You love competitive pressure; you think outside of the box (what box?), you would have been an Olympic Gold Medalist if you were not always working that hard on ever improving customer relationships. Every working hour of every working day. It is what gets you up in the morning! Your passion! - You are part of a TEAM and you lead a TEAM. And these teams are sacred. They are built on trust and mutual respect. And you respect that. **Key Accountabilities** - Ensure a customer focused approach to create value and build a performance-based culture within the Planning & Logistics activities - Develop, build and source the capabilities to ensure customer satisfaction and our growth targets are delivered in full - Build and run the Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning process (S&OP) including demand planning, production planning, supplier planning and the integration of our core business partners such as distributers. - Ensure effective relationships with peer groups and external partners such as 3PL and Co-Packers - Drive long-term capacity planning in areas such as warehousing, logistics, production and suppliers - Ensure goods movement costs are optimized in order to drive value creation for Upfield and our customers - Manage our inventory profile and ensure the right trad