Supply Chain Planner
Leven, Edinburgh or Glasgow
Permanent
Closing Date: 14/04/2025
Join our Supply Chain team.
Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing, and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo's 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It's an intricate and sophisticated operation that's the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.
Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We're committed to realising our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress' goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we'll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture.
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About the role
Reporting to the Supply Scheduling and UK TPO Team Leader, this role controls the income and storage of the bulk rum for Captain Morgan's in Scotland.
The successful candidate will collaborate with planning, operations, procurement, and suppliers' teams to ensure liquids' availability are aligned with forecasts through optimized end-to-end inventory management, including safety stocks. You will maintain clear visibility of rum requirements across planning horizons, delivering a balanced suite of KPIs while proactively handling inventory levels and service performance to markets and from suppliers.
Key Responsibilities:
- Managing shipping dispatches from the Caribbean to Scotland.
- Scheduling tank uplifts from docks to Diageo sites, coordinating with suppliers and haulage companies.
- Reviewing demand forecasts for S&OE (Sales & Operations Execution) and S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning) horizons.
- Handling ATP with Rum Distilleries, performance management in partnership with Procurement.
- Analyse replenishment exceptions, resolve them per business priorities, and develop risk mitigation plans to ensure an optimal material replenishment strategy.
- Confirming cask selections for blending within a short-term scheduling horizon (1-3 weeks).
- Creating rum blends based on agreed recipes with Technical.
- Managing rum recipe changes ensuring recipes are updated in timely manner.
- Develop order book for Caribbean distilleries, aligning orders by mark with recipes and scenarios, and share the plan with Procurement in advance to ensure timely execution and optimized cost.
- Managing tank flow to avoid demurrage/additional charges.
- Communicating with Operations on arrivals of tanks to optimize filling/disgorging plan.
- Scheduling outbound tanks to production sites.
- Manage cask inventory including maturation timelines.
About you:
The successful candidate must have Leadership influencing and stakeholder engagement skills including the ability to challenge senior partners in demand/supply conversations. You will be a champion of root cause culture and methodology building on visual controls excellence and working effectively across planning functions to eliminate service risk.
In addition:
- Systems experience within supply chain optimization platforms (ERP / master data, time-phased replenishment planning systems).
- Strong understanding of supply chain operational processes.
- Numerate with statistical, and analytical skills and attention to detail (RCCP).
- High capability to simplify and prioritize what is complicated and/or complex.
- Pulse on external trends in global supply chains and raw materials.
Working with us
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.
We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you!
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