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 22 plants worldwide and has its own distribution network in 22 countries, and employs approximately 4,000 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 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 is a new role designed to create supply plans for the assigned co-manufacturers/co-packers in the region, ensuring product availability and compliance with the contractual agreements committed with the co-manufacturers/co-packers.

The role requires a strong interaction with Co-Manufacturing team to review co-manufacturers performances, manage escalations and ensure that supply plans are in line with contractual agreements.  In addition, it will require constant interaction with co-manufacturers/ co-packers in the Region.

Key Responsibilities and Activities

• Develop and publish weekly/monthly supply plan for assigned co-manufacturers, co-packers and brand owners, 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

• 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

• Ensure contract adherence (e.g. yearly planned quantities), and promptly highlight any potential variation to Campari Co-man team

• Manage and coordinate availability issues, defining recovery plans with co-manufacturer(s) and escalating to Co-man team whenever required

• Analyse together with regional co-manufacturing team the KPIs for the co-manufacturers/co-packers, and define improvement initiatives

• 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

• Act as a backup for Deployment Planner Asia

Key Relationships

Internal: regional co-manufacturing team, local logistics & CS teams, deployment planning team, innovation & renovation teams, master data team

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

Skills and Experience required

• Degree in scientific area (e.g. Engineering, economics, business administration, supply chain) 

• Minimum 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, Powerpoint SAP (SAP IBP module is a plus)

• A proactive fast learner, challenging himself/herself daily in order 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, to interact with co-manufacturers/ co-packers/ brand owners

• English is a must, other languages would be a plus

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.

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