At Nestlé Health Science, we believe that nutrition, science, and wellness must merge, not collide. Here, we embrace the intrinsic connections of these three pillars, harnessing their collective strength to empower healthier lives. Our broad product portfolio includes renowned brands like Garden of Life®, Nature's Bounty®, Vital Proteins®, Orgain®, Nuun®, BOOST®, Carnation Breakfast Essentials®, Peptamen®, Compleat Organic Blends®, and more. We also have extensive pharmaceutical expertise, offering innovative medicines that aim to prevent, manage, and treat gastrointestinal and metabolic-related diseases.

At Nestlé Health Science, we bring our best for better lives. Our people are challenged to bring fresh, diverse views and make bold moves to empower healthier lives through nutrition. We know brilliant ideas can come from anyone, anywhere. Here we embrace the entrepreneurial spirit and collaborate with teams that champion focused and forward thinking. We are committed to fostering professional growth and celebrating the achievements of our people along the way. We offer dynamic career paths, robust development, opportunities to learn from talented colleagues around the globe, and benefits that support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.

Join us to innovate for impact and reimagine the future of health and nutrition for patients and consumers.

Job Description:

The Supply Chain Operations Manager will be responsible for all aspects of Supply Chain Business Partnering, as well as the Demand and Supply Planning for both the Nuun and Carnation Breakfast Essentials (CBE) business within the Lifestyle Nutrition business unit at Nestle Health Science. This role is a People Leader role and is a remote-based opportunity.

Responsibilities:

Business Partnering

• Ensuring continuous alignment with business priorities, initiatives, and activities and the delivery of the performance to the agreed KPI levels.

• Manage the relationship and effective flow of information between the Demand and Supply Planning functions and internal business partners such as Order to Cash, Logistics, Procurement, Sales, Marketing, and Finance.

Supply Planning

• Responsible for the effective management of the supply planning functions.

• Responsible for developing supply plans that optimize supply, service, and inventory whilst working to minimize bad goods and keep inventory within working capital targets.

• Manage long term (rolling 18-month) supply plans in close conjunction with both the Centers of Supply and Factories to early identify and resolve potential capacity issues.

• Responsible for setting, reviewing, and maintaining safety stock policy by SKU to meet agreed upon customer service level objectives while minimizing associated working capital costs.

• Manage bad goods in the P&L by closely monitoring any risk of ageing stock, communicate with the commercial team to align on potential actions to mitigate financial risks, and propose preventive actions to minimize future recurrence.

• Present supply outlook (days on hand, service levels, projected future working capital) and any strategic plans for the 18-month rolling horizon as well as the long-term supply outlook to Nestle Health Science USA leadership and other stakeholders.

Demand Planning

• Provides guidance on the demand plan for the brands and business, ensuring alignment with business priorities and initiatives.

• Challenges ways of working and manages process changes to improve demand plan accuracy, drive out systematic forecast bias and deliver other tangible benefits (e.g. time saving, efficiencies).

• Quantify new product launches utilizing historical data for both internal and competitive launches, planned marketing support and key account sales plans.

• Defines ways of working and best practices for the cross-functional planning activities and ensures commitment from all functions to shape an efficient and effective process.

• Partners with the business to identify gaps between the demand plan and financial and sales targets and validate all corrective measures/gap closers.

• Directs and makes recommendations on the Consensus Demand Planning (CDP) for the business unit, challenge forecast assumptions and defends the appropriate changes to the CDP.

• Engages with other functions to enable the use of external data into the Demand Planning process (e.g. point of sale, consumption, customer inventory, etc.).

• Actively participates in the Market Business Strategy (MBS), Integrated Commercial Planning (ICP), Monthly Business Planning (MBP) and Dynamic Forecast (DF) processes.

• Facilitate consensus meetings with Supply Planning, Sales, Marketing, Finance & Operations to ensure forecasting objectives are achieved.

Training & Development and People Leadership

• Motivate fellow Demand/Supply Planners and Managers within the team to achieve stated objectives.

• Provide orientation, training & development to individual team members, in support of high-performance team goals.

• Developing a network of Supply and Demand Planning by leading and actively presenting in Supply and Demand Planning functional meetings with other business units to share experiences and contribute in defining company-wide best practices.

• Cascades knowledge of Supply and Demand Planning best practices and tools to other planners, new hires and cross-functional teams.

• Hire, train, coach and develop direct reports.

Requirements:

• High School Diploma or GED required; Bachelor’s degree preferred.

• 5+ years of professional work experience in a Supply Chain, with at least 2+ years of Leadership experience working in Demand and Supply Planning, Supply Chain Development or in a related field required.

• 1-2+ years of People Leadership experience hiring, training, coaching and managing direct reports required.

• Demonstrated fluency in MS Office (Word/Excel/Outlook/PowerPoint required).

• Must have excellent communication (oral and written), presentation, organizational and stakeholder management skills (including the ability to develop and maintain strong, cross-functional stakeholder relationships) required.

• Must be analytical, detail-oriented and agile.

• Demonstrated experience implementing processes and systems to improve organization and working methods.

• Willing and able to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines with minimal supervision.

• Experience with SAP required.

• Must have creative thinking skills with the ability to develop innovative solutions to complex business problems.

• Willing and able to travel up to 15% based on the needs of the team and the business required.

The approximate pay range for this position is $110,000 to $120,000. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Final compensation may vary based on factors including but not limited to knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as geographic location.

Nestle Offers performance-based incentives and a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k with a company match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Incentives and/or benefit packages may vary depending on the position. Learn more at: About Us | Nestlé Careers (nestlejobs.com)

Requisition ID:

343018

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