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Planning Data Manager
Reference: JAN20255721
Expiry date: 23:59, Wed, 12th Feb 2025
Location: Southampton
Salary: Competitive
Benefits: Pension, Health Cash Plan, Cycle to Work Scheme, Employee Discount, Values Award, Holidays
Company Overview
Glen Dimplex Heating & Ventilation is a subsidiary of the Glen Dimplex Group. We design, develop and deliver innovative heating and ventilation solutions that address a wide range of needs, from sustainability and efficiency to aesthetic appeal and performance. We operate across the UK and Ireland, serving global markets through our sister company Glen Dimplex Heating & Ventilation International division.
Main Purpose
To manage and develop the planning data, the planning system capabilities, planning reporting and use in supporting the planning processes to deliver best in class customer service. This role is pivotal in supporting our planning processes, driving data-driven decision-making, and enhancing the team's reporting capabilities. In this influential and high-profile role, you will work with senior executives to fully understand, articulate and drive improvements to the Finished goods supply planning process, customer service and the subsequent inventory management feeding into the business planning processes.
Responsibilities
* Report Creation: Work with Planning Process managers to design, develop, and maintain effective business relevant reports and dashboards that provide insights into planning and performance metrics, inventory levels recommending relevant actions for process improvement.
* Data Integration: Extract and manipulate data from SAP and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) solutions to inform reporting and analysis.
* Reporting and Dashboard Development: Work closely with the Planning team to understand their short-term reporting needs and translate them into effective business relevant reports. Lead the scoping, development and implementation of a centralized, standard reporting platform enabling stakeholders to easily understand key performance indicators (KPIs), trends and exceptions.
* Adoption and Training: Drive the adoption of new reports and future dashboards across the planning and key business stakeholder teams. Conduct training sessions and provide ongoing support to ensure effective use of reporting tools.
* System development: Lead the development of the planning tools and systems at GDHV. This will include ERP updates and planning tool enhancements ensuring data integrity and accuracy aligning with all core business systems.
* Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to enhance process performance by utilizing planning data, ensuring alignment with best practice KPIs. Collaborating and recommending to planning process leads opportunities for process improvement.
* Documentation: Maintain clear documentation of dashboard sources, design specifications, and user guides to facilitate training and onboarding.
* Management and development of the Planning Data Team including contingency best practices.
Skills, Knowledge and Experience
ESSENTIAL
* Minimum 5 years of Supply Chain planning management.
* Proven knowledge of Supply Chain planning in a fast-paced, multi-tiered manufacturing and sourced product environment.
* Effective communication and relationship skills across all levels of the business including executive reporting. Ability to translate highly complex data to support effective decision making.
* Willingness and appetite to successfully drive change across Supply Chain planning process and business improvements.
* Expert knowledge of Demand planning, Supply Planning, inventory management systems, best in class processes and metrics.
DESIRABLE
* Enthusiastic leader with good initiative and proactive approach to work.
* Commitment to customer centric continual improvement for data management at GDHV.
* Ability to create, manage and lead teams as well as developing individuals, supporting career needs and ensuring business contingency.
* Willingness to adopt and adapt to new business ideas and opportunities for Supply planning improvement.
COMPETENCIES
* Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft office including Excel.
* Knowledge of MRP/ERP systems, SAP S4/Hana system preferable.
* Knowledge of Demand planning, Supply Planning, inventory management systems and best in class.
* Ability to create and foster relationships across all levels of a business.
Travel
You will be required to travel to other GDHV UK, GDHV Group and Supplier sites as required.
Values
At GDHV we are proud of our Company Values which are at the centre of all that we do. In addition to role specific skills and experience (outlined above) our colleagues are expected to always strive to:
Think Customer
Care About People
Value Innovation
Keep It Simple
Come join us and be the difference that makes the difference.
(Take a look at what’s going on at Glen Dimplex Heating & Ventilation on our LinkedIn page.)
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