Senior Gift Planner

The Boots Company PLC; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading beauty company based in Nottingham is seeking a Senior Gift Supply Planner to join their Gift Supply Chain Team. This permanent role includes leading a team to ensure effective assembly and delivery of gift products. The ideal candidate will have at least five years in supply chain, demonstrate a commitment to continuous improvement, and possess excellent stakeholder management skills. The role offers a range of benefits including a retirement savings plan, enhanced leave policies, and a flexible benefits scheme.

Benefits

Retirement Savings Plan

Enhanced leave pay

Discretionary annual bonus

Generous brand discounts

Flexible benefits scheme

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years' experience in supply chain, ideally within a CPG environment.
• Ability to prioritise workload to ensure that key milestones are met.
• Understanding of inventory management and supplier relations.

Responsibilities

• Lead a sub-team of Gift Supply Planners and Gift Operations Assistants.
• Manage continuous improvement initiatives in processes and systems.
• Order and manage materials for gift assembly.

Skills

Supply chain experience

Continuous improvement

Stakeholder management

Customer centricity

Operational excellence

Tools

SAP

Job description

Contract: Permanent

Location: Nottingham

Recruitment Partner: Anastasia Walker

Who we are

No7 Beauty Company is made up of five iconic brands - No7, Liz Earle, Soap & Glory, Botanics and Sleek MakeUP. We believe in creating the best in beauty for everyone - we're innovators with a passion for challenging perceptions with ground-breaking products, proven results and positive impact. We have built a reputation on scientific innovation, whilst being environmentally sustainable and socially responsible. We are an equal opportunity employer, empowering our team members to be their authentic selves as we share a culture where diversity, equity and inclusion are at the centre of everything we do.

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Gift Supply Planner to join our Gift Supply Chain Team to organise the assembly of gifts from material ordering through to execution and delivery of the plan.

This role will lead a sub-team of Gift Planners to deliver key brands of gifts to our customers.

This is a permanent role within the Gift Planning Team. Based at our head office in Nottingham.

Key responsibilities

This role will be working within the Gift Team, reporting to the Gift Planning Manager. The successful candidate will manage a small team to deliver key brands like S&G and No7. Key responsibilities:

• Lead a sub-team of Gift Supply Planners and Gift Operations Assistants that are responsible for planning and delivering a range or ranges of the Gift programme within the No7 Beauty Company.

• Manage continuous improvement initiatives addressing process, systems and tools gaps

• Create plans for the assembly of gifts in line with Customer requirements.

• Order and manage materials required to meet the gift assembly plans ensuring high levels of inventory accuracy.

• Represent the Gift Planning function at project meetings and provide regular updates on the status of the programmes being manufactured to key stakeholders.

• Understand and manage inventory levels by taking action to reduce and clear Excess & Obsolete stocks.

• Develop relationships with Suppliers, actively collaborating & challenging vendor performance to drive availability.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO HAVE

• Minimum of 5 years' experience in supply chain, ideally within a CPG environment

• A commitment to continuous improvement with an ability to drive new processes

• Ability to prioritise workload to ensure that key milestones are met and to deal with a variety of stakeholders

• Customer centric in your approach, seeing service as a priority

• Make it happen approach with operational excellence and agility to deliver results whilst controlling risk

IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU ALSO HAVE

• Knowledge of supply chain planning

• Experience of leading a team

• SAP experience

• Knowledge of inventory management and dealing with suppliers

Our benefits

• Retirement Savings Plan

• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay

• Discretionary annual bonus

• Generous discount on our own brands and partner businesses

• Flexible benefits schemeincluding option to buy additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more.

We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you - go to no7company.jobs/working-here to find out more. Exclusions may apply, eligible roles only.

What's next

Where a role is advertised as full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options during the application process. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.