Supply and Subcontracting Planner
L’Oréal Dermatological Beauty
About L’Oréal
L'Oréal has been a world leader in the cosmetics business for more than 100 years and has grown into one of the largest FMCG companies in the world. With international brands such as L'Oréal Paris, La Roche-Posay, Garnier, CeraVe, Kérastase, Lancôme, Giorgio Armani and Vichy, we offer relevant products for every consumer.
Being part of the LDB (L’Oréal Dermatological Beauty) division will give you direct influence in achieving our mission: to help everyone in their quest for healthy and beautiful skin. We are the world leader in Dermocosmetics, with international skincare brands recommended by healthcare professionals and distributed in healthcare outlets worldwide, including, pharmacies, clinics, spas, e-retailers…
Our portfolio is composed of 4 brands offering a wide range of skincare and haircare: La Roche-Posay, Vichy, CeraVe and SkinCeuticals. The products respond to all expectations linked to beauty and health of the skin: from dermatological and aesthetics skincare to natural solutions, from the most accessible ranges to the most premium ones.
Who am I?
As Supply and Subcontracting Planner, you are a pivotal orchestrator within our supply chain, ensuring the seamless availability of both nationally produced and co-packed products for your key brands. You drive the smooth execution of the Supply planning process, anticipating risks, optimizing costs, and improving stock quality.
This role demands collaboration with various teams from the business, supply chain and S&OP teams to meet with market demands, achieve operational excellence and customer satisfaction.
This requires a highly organized, structured, and hands-on approach, coupled with comprehensive supply chain expertise and a collaborative mindset. You are an agile and strategic thinker, comfortable analyzing complex situations, challenging established processes, and driving continuous improvement.
My responsibilities:
- Build the Supply plan based on the validated sales forecasts, including the co-packing plan, the stocks and supply/ procurement parameters.
- Monitor inventory levels and take proactive measures to mitigate potential Risks on Out of Stocks or Excess.
- Manage stock levels (all incl co-packed goods), health of the stocks (Excess & Obsoletes) and anticipate expiries in accordance with the objectives of the country, animate, alert and follow-up of action plans.
- Collaborate closely with your stakeholders form the business, supply chain team, copacker, IDC/S&OP teams to ensure timely and cost-effective product availability.
- Manage Co-packing: Oversee all co-packing activities, from planning and scheduling to execution and delivery.
- Manage the replenishment process through the evaluation of the shortage risks, proactively alerting the S&OP/IDC teams on priorities and challenge on MADs.
- Determine the stock and supply parameters according to the strategic objectives of the business aiming for the targeted/budgeted Service level, costs and global stock.
- Optimize Performance: Identify and implement process improvement to enhance supply chain efficiency and effectiveness.
Your profile
To maintain our top position in the market, we are looking for an ambitious person, with strong convictions and beliefs. We seek a candidate who is cooperative, agile, strategic, and analytical, with a proven ability to challenge the status quo and drive continuous improvement.
And you have a strong understanding of supply chain management principles and best practices, with demonstrated expertise in SAP.
Our ideal candidate has:
- Master degree; preferably towards Supply Chain;
- At least 3-5 years of relevant work experience in a similar position in a manufacturing environment;
- Proven affinity with the field 'Supply Chain'; preferably experience within FMCG
- Excellent command of written and spoken English;
- High knowledge of Excel and excellent analytical.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
- Stress resistant and problem-solving skills.
- Positive attitude, strong communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate and build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Competencies required for the role:
- Agile
- Proactive
- Problem-solving
- Organized
- Collaborator
- Teamplayer
- Strategic
- Process oriented
What do we offer?
When you start at L'Oréal, you get a great deal of responsibility from day one. To develop, we offer an introduction program and an individual training program. Training can be local or at the global headquarters in Paris. An enriching experience where you will meet international peers.
And furthermore you will find with us:
- An inspiring work environment with ambitious colleagues.
- A healthy career perspective with good development and career opportunities.
- Good secondary employment conditions, such as a 13th month, profit sharing, discount on medical expenses and a favorable pension scheme;
- Discount on L'Oréal products
- Nice extras such as various sporting company activities.
Finally, a great added value of working at L'Oréal is that you will be working with so many different people and functions. This offers you the opportunity to broaden your knowledge about different stakeholders.
Diversity
L’Oréal would like their personnel to represent the diversity of the Benelux society. We welcome everyone regardless of origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, philosophical or political conviction, disability, etc.
“A diversified workforce in every function and on all levels strengthens our creativity and our understanding of consumers and it enables us to develop and market products that are relevant“
(Jean-Paul Agon, Chairman of L’Oréal)
How to apply
Are you ready for this challenge and do you meet the conditions?
Then apply quickly!
Do you want to know what it's like to work for L'Oréal Benelux?
Check out our LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/loreal/life/