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Asahi UK (AUK), part of Asahi Europe & International Ltd, aims to enrich consumer experiences through innovation, high-quality service and an exceptional portfolio of premium beer, ale and cider brands including, Peroni Nastro Azzurro, Asahi Super Dry, Meantime, Fuller's London Pride and Cornish Orchards. Our aim is to be the leading super premium beer business in the UK, through a brand mix that creates a compelling proposition. At AUK we operate as an end to end business unit responsible for sales, marketing, customer operations, production, supply chain and wholesale operations in the UK & Ireland.
Customer Relationship Manager
The Customer Relationship Manager will be working in a high performing team within Supply Chain. You will be accountable to lead and pursue excellence in supply chain for a set number of customers, developing and delivering best service at the lowest cost with extensive exposure to internal and external senior stakeholders.
Accountable for managing the order to cash process for their customer(s), ensuring supply chain service offering and operations are aligned with the commercial teams, mutual supply chain costs are optimised and opportunities for service enhancements are delivered.
You will be accountable for ensuring robust, assumption based demand plans are generated for a set of customers. Direct responsibility for high levels of customer service to this set of customers, working closely with supply planning colleagues.
Key accountabilities
* Delivering 97.5% service performance in all aspects of Service as measured by the customer - case fill rate and VDOT (volume delivered on time) and supporting the customer in securing on shelf availability.
* Be the Supply Chain face of AUK to the customers and own the AUK service level into their depots, including FTA (Failure to Arrive) trends and other operational service impacts.
* Owns and drives Customer Engagement - targeting top quartile in the Advantage Group Survey.
* Accountable for the order management process, ensuring deliveries to customers are made On Time in Full (OTIF) and supporting OTC activities.
* NPD implementation to be launched on time in full and no customer shorts.
* Effectively own and manage the stock write off process to ensure we reduce the exposure within Supply chain.
* Educates customers on rules of supply such as lead times, MOQs, product information and delivery dates.
* Development and maintenance of order capture and consumption tools to enable the "perfect order".
* Responsible for the development of Supply Chain Partnerships through an appropriate customer contact strategy.
* Demonstrate high personal integrity to develop/manage the customer relationship.
* Identify and communicate to the sales and customer any short term supply issues.
* Build a customer supply chain relationship deliver cost and service improvements.
* Develop, implement and improve collaborative forecasting with customers and demand planning team.
* Action plans in place to improve forecast accuracy and bias to continually achieve set targets.
* Influence and obtain cross functional forecast consensus across Sales and Customer.
* Building strong internal and external relationships with our Customers- Sales- Customer Service- Demand and Operations.
* Responsible for providing demand control through monitoring supply against forecast for all SKUs.
* Liaise with the Customer to optimize product replenishment and successfully enabling events.
* Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly Service Review meetings providing inbound service, including root cause and resolution.
Experience required
* Graduate calibre, ideally in a relevant area.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
* Highly analytical and able to use data to drive insight.
* Customer relationship management experience.
* Experience in a high volume, detailed and process driven organisation.
* System experience in an ERP environment and strong excel skills.
* Highly organised with excellent attention to detail.
* Knowledge of either FMCG or UK or international supply chain logistics.
* Experience of working cross-functionally at an operational level.
Key attributes of the successful person
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
* Able to clearly and productively communicates ideas, plans and priorities to others.
* Strong analytical skills able to make the connections in data, events and trends.
* Highly organised with excellent attention to detail.
* Ability to work under pressure.
* Drive and determination with a willingness to learn.
Whats on tap
* Annual bonus.
* Private pension.
* Private medical and dental insurance.
* Life assurance.
* Beer allowance.
We are committed to nurturing a workplace where we celebrate and respect difference, and support everyone to be true to who they are!
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