Campari Group today is a major player in the global branded spirits industry, with a portfolio of over 50 premium and super premium brands, marketed and distributed in over 190 markets around the world, with leading positions in Europe and the Americas.
Headquartered in Milan, Italy, Campari Group owns 22 plants worldwide and has its own distribution network in 22 countries, and employs approximately 4,000 people.
Shares of the parent company Davide Campari - Milano N.V. are listed on the Italian Stock Exchange since 2001. Campari Group is today the sixth-largest player worldwide in the premium spirits industry.
Position Context and Mission
In 2023 Campari Group launched IBP program, a transformational initiative to enhance Supply and Demand planning capabilities, bringing a renewed operating model, together with re-designed processes and a new planning tool (SAP IBP).
Within this context, the Deployment Planner Asia is a new role designed to ensure product availability within the sub-region, deploying finished goods between regional warehouses, ensuring connection and consistent exchange of information with other regions for HUB to HUB flows (import from EMEA and Americas regions) and proactively highlighting potential availability issues in the short and mid-long term.
Key Responsibilities and Activities
- Manage intra-region and Local deployment flows:
- Create the weekly deployment plan for intra region flows (e.g. Singapore to Hong Kong) and for Local flows (e.g. between the different Japan warehouses)
- Convert STRs (Stock Transfer Request) automatically proposed by the system into STOs (Stock Transfer Orders), optimizing truck saturation through TLB (Transportation Load Build) functionality
- Act as point of reference for Asia for HUB to HUB flows (import of goods from other Regions to Asia):
- On a monthly base, collect and load in IBP transactional data (e.g. actual stock position) for the companies not yet integrated in the Campari global ERP system (SAP S4) to enable a correct requirements calculation, ensuring that monthly deadline is met and proactively highlighting any issue to other regions
- Check the deployment plan proposed by Global Deployment Planners from other region, to ensure that stock coverage is in line with target
- Attend to weekly HUB to HUB meeting, collecting information on stock availability from other hubs and highlighting any criticality for local market
- Act as single point of contact for stock projections from the assigned markets, monitoring projected inventory levels and providing information on stock availability
- Check system alerts on logistics constraints in the mid- to long-term horizon, getting in touch with local logistics team to find the right solution
- Monitor Slow Moving in assigned countries, highlighting risks to local markets and performing stock re-balanincing within the region whenever required
- Ensure a correct execution of Phase-in Phase-out processes, monitoring the full depletion of phasing out SKU and the phase in of the new SKU
- Manage deployment masterdata in the system (e.g. deployment rounding values, lead times), ensuring that they are consistent and continuously updated
- Support inventory reporting
- Act as a backup for Supply Planner Asia
Key Relationships
Internal: other HUBs deployment planners, local logistics & CS teams, innovation & renovation teams, master data team
External: 3PL
Skills and Experience required
- Degree in scientific area (e.g. Engineering, economics, business administration, supply chain)
- Minimum 8 years experience in supply planning roles (preferably in Beverage/ FMCG industry)
- Strong analytical skills and ability to plan autonomously according to priorities and urgencies
- Able to collect and critically interpret data and numbers, understanding gaps vs. targets and defining proper countermeasures
- Good knowledge of IT systems: Excel, Powerpoint,SAP (SAP IBP module is a plus)
- A fully accountable and people-oriented team player able to instill trust and build meaningful relationships with internal stakeholders
- A penchant for critical thinking, pragmatism and natural curiosity for problem solving
- Influencing and negotiation skills, to interact with other regionas deployment teams
- English is a must, other languages would be a plus
Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
At Campari Group we believe in building more value together, thus we see diversity in all forms as a source of enrichment. Our employment policies and practices ensure that we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities in all aspects of employment without regard to any individual’s race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or characteristics or expression, political affiliation or activity, age, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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