Manager Business Process Excellence Wholesale

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To change lives, we have to create direct relationships with consumers, and the best way to accelerate this process is through Digital.

Manager Business Process Excellence Wholesale

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Market Europe recognizes the critical importance of wholesale growth and service excellence within the channel. The SCM Wholesale Business Process Excellence function is established with a clear focus on optimizing operational efficiency, enhancing wholesale customer satisfaction, and driving positive impacts on conversion rates. This role, together with its team, is dedicated to ensuring best-in-class SCM service while concurrently optimizing costs and creating conversion opportunities for our wholesale operations.

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive continuous improvement in On Time, in Full (OTIF) performance for Wholesale partners and implement corrective actions for identified performance gaps.

• Maintain a focus on cost and profitability within the wholesale logistics landscape, and initiate actions to address key cost drivers.

• Work with the finance department to establish transparency regarding wholesale logistics costs.

• Enable fact-based decision-making by creating transparency on priorities, deliverables, sequencing, and timelines of major business initiatives within the wholesale channel.

• Create analytics frameworks to facilitate data-driven decision-making across cross-functional assessments.

• Continuously refine and standardize wholesale supply chain processes to align with customer hierarchy, company priorities, and supply chain capabilities.

• Contribute to the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process by leveraging analytics to provide critical insights and ensure alignment between demand, supply, and financial plans within the wholesale Supply Chain Management (SCM) operations.

Key Relationships:

• Account Operations/Customer Service wholesale Europe

• SCM Europe

• Global SCM

• Global and Europe IT

• Finance Europe + SCM

 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Proficiency in Excel for data analysis and reporting

• Advanced skills in Power BI for dashboards and data visualization

• SQL skills for data querying and management is a plus

• Knowledge in SAP AFS, SAP PGR is a plus

• Familiarity with supply chain processes is a plus.

• Good communication skills

• Strong analytical skills

• Results-oriented and goal-driven

 

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Higher education degree in Finance, Logistics, Suply Chain Management or equivalent.

• 3-5 years of relevant experience in SCM, Sales, Finance, or Analytics departments.

• General knowledge of supply chain management (SCM) is appreciated but not required.

• Fluent in English (oral and written).