Supply Planning Process Owner – Maturity and Capability

Diageo

Supply Planning Process Owner – Maturity and Capability

Location Flexible: Amsterdam or London

Background:

Our Global Planning and Logistics functions employ c1,000 people across 30+ countries, and our teams focus on capability planning, customer excellence and logistics specialists, ensuring that our brands get to where they need to be in the most efficient and effective way. Our Global Planning and Logistics functions drives agility into our end-to-end global supply chain, by providing ‘best in class’ service and delivery to our customers, our channels and our markets, with an aim to ‘Delight the Customer’, every case, every day, everywhere. Using data-driven insight and state-of-the-art digital technology, our products are delivered from ‘grain-to-shelf’, ensuring we Delight the Customer every day, across the globe.

Diageo is embarking on an exciting and significant business transformation through our Advanced Supply Planning Programme. This is aimed at driving a radical transformation of our planning processes, systems, and organisation. This is not just a technical deployment of a new technology but a renewal/upscaling program, change management is pivotal to a successful outcome, adoption, and a sustainable future solution. Through this programme we aim to drive global supply planning process and data standardization and simplification.

Purpose of role:

We are seeking a Supply Planning Transformation Process Owner to lead the global supply planning transformation and adoption (People, Process, Systems) through maturity assessment and improvement. You will be responsible for leading the development and deployment of the maturity assessment tool (evaluation criteria and evidence), guide and develop the maturity improvement roadmap for the categories, and lead and facilitate improvement of key maturity assessment metrics.

You will have excellent functional and leadership capabilities to optimally deliver this business transformation programme. They will have a strong grasp of best-in-class processes and business capabilities, creating the bridge between business capabilities today and those required to deliver new supply planning processes, capabilities, and systems.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the global supply planning transformation by embedding the Class A best practice maturity model, providing recommendations for improvement and development of the maturity roadmap in order to progress from foundational to advanced.
• Ensure that all new and modified assessment questions and evidence are consistent with Global Process and maturity stage.
• Key interface between the Advanced Supply Planning project and the category heads and planning heads to drive maturity that will ensure that best practices and ways of working are embraced, established, and sustained.
• Lead the development of the maturity assessment model along with agreed partner company.
• Guide and develop the Global and Category subject matter experts in order to enable them to lead assessments and drive improvements within their categories.
• Lead and influence the supply planning organization and cross functional areas to align and synchronize new ways of working as per maturity stage progression.
• Responsible to successfully deliver the maturity targets as per key milestones and will build the basis to ensure sustainable work process/practices adoption.
• Build and maintain value driving relationships across the organisation, regions and markets that support business the business transformation programme.
• Having a thorough understanding on best in class supply planning processes and fully aligned with strategic supply planning process and technology priorities.
• Having a thorough understanding of the business strategy, actively challenge and build business decisions.

What we are looking for:

• Considerable experience of driving global supply planning capability programmes. SAP/APO usage and experience ideally, with advanced supply chain methodology and implementation.
• We are open to your industry, although we are seeking synergies between consumer packaged goods/CPG and your background.
• Management experience across at least two of the following supply planning processes: Distribution Requirements Planning, Master Production Scheduling, Materials Requirements Planning, Inventory management and Control.
• Proven experience managing teams of a cross functional nature and provide clear direction, support and resolution
• High commercial acumen, able to connect current performance to specific maturity stages through awareness of planning issues and opportunities. Recognizes how to address key opportunities based on business planning maturity.
• Key influencing skills, establish relationships with teams within supply planning and external functions. Proven ability to impact and influence, at a senior stakeholder level, influencing & communication skills.
• Effective Communication, create a compelling improvement and adoption roadmap that brings teams along, adapt influencing and communication style for the intended audience (complexity, detail, altitude). Presents material in a clear confident manner & manages non-verbal communication, in service to message.
• Fluent English knowledge

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.