Supply Planner, Asia

Campari Group today is a major player in the global branded spirits industry, with a portfolio of over 50 premium and super premium brands, marketed and distributed in over 190 markets around the world, with leading positions in Europe and the Americas.

Headquartered in Milan, Italy, Campari Group owns 25 plants worldwide and has its own distribution network in 26 countries, and employs approximately 4,700 people.

Shares of the parent company Davide Campari - Milano N.V. are listed on the Italian Stock Exchange since 2001. Campari Group is today the sixth-largest player worldwide in the premium spirits industry.

Position Context and Mission

In 2023 Campari Group launched the IBP program, a transformational initiative to enhance Supply and Demand planning capabilities, bringing a renewed operating model, together with re-designed processes and a new planning tool (SAP IBP).

Within this context, the Supply Planner Asia role is designed to create supply plans for the assigned Markets in the region, ensuring product availability and compliance with the set targets.

The role requires strong interaction with local market teams to review OOS risk, manage escalations and ensure that supply plans are in line with demand forecasting.

Key Responsibilities and Activities

• Develop and publish weekly/monthly supply plan for assigned markets, leveraging on planning system capabilities (SAP IBP) plus ad-hoc Excel files for co-manufacturing and co-packing operations performed in countries where SAP has not been deployed yet.
• Manage copacking and re-labelling requirements for imported and LTO products.
• Create and share with co-manufacturers/co-packers mid-long term forecast, to provide visibility on Campari future requirements.
• Create and issue Purchase Orders to co-manufacturers/co-packers.
• For the co-manufacturing/co-packing contracts where materials are provided by Campari, ensure that materials required are timely purchased and delivered by Campari.
• Manage and coordinate availability issues, defining recovery plans and escalating whenever required
• Provide input and analysis to drive decisions in relation to inventory settings and holdings whilst maintaining the appropriate stock availability and service level to our customers.
• Assists inventory solutions and managing stakeholders to minimise the forecast changes within the forecast frozen period.
• Publish routine and adhoc reporting and analysis relative to inventory for stakeholders.
• Work with supply networks to optimise warehouse costs, improve availability, lead-times, delivery schedules and other factors.
• Ensure a correct execution of Phase-in Phase-out processes, monitoring the full depletion of phasing out SKU and the phase in of the new SKU.
• Provide visibility to local market on stock projections, based on supply plans agreed with co-manufacturers/ co-packers/ brand owners
• Manage co-man/co-pack/ agency brands masterdata in the system (e.g. production rounding values, inforecord), ensuring that they are continuously updated.
• Support inventory reporting.

Key Relationships

Internal: regional deployment team in US and Italy, local logistics & CS teams, Finance

External: Co-manufacturers, co-packers, brand owner, 3PL, packaging materials suppliers

Skills and Experience required

• Prior experience with SAP IBP is required.
• Master Degree in scientific area (e.g. Engineering, economics, business administration) 
• 4+ years experience in supply planning roles (preferably in Beverage/ FMCG industry)
• Strong analytical skills and ability to plan autonomously according to priorities and urgencies
• Able to collect and critically interpret data and numbers to ensure a strong focus on continuous improvement and excellence in execution.
• Good knowledge of IT systems: Excel, SAP (SAP IBP module is a must)
• A proactive fast learner, challenging oneself daily to reach excellence and focus on customers and stakeholders satisfaction.
• A fully accountable and people-oriented team player able to instill trust and build meaningful relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• A penchant for critical thinking, pragmatism and natural curiosity for problem solving.
• Influencing and negotiation skills.
• Well developed interpersonal skills to enable effective communication with suppliers, customers, management, technology specialists and peers.
• Commitment to standardisation of best practice planning and inventory management principles.
• Exposure to demand planning.
• English is a must, other languages would be a plus in particular Korean or Japanese.

Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

At Campari Group we believe in building more value together, thus we see diversity in all forms as a source of enrichment. Our employment policies and practices ensure that we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities in all aspects of employment without regard to any individual’s race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or characteristics or expression, political affiliation or activity, age, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Campari Group believes that fair compensation and equal opportunities are crucial for employees’ well-being, empowerment, and engagement.  Our efforts to ensure fair pay have earned us the Fair Pay Certification by Fair Pay Workplace, an independent organization dedicated to dismantling pay disparities based on gender, race and their intersection.

Note to applicants:

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