Senior Manager, Supply Planning - Interim

Senior Manager, Supply Planning – Interim

Are you an experienced supply chain professional with a passion for collaboration and leadership? Do you have strong analytical skills and a customer-centric mindset? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!

We are seeking a Senior Supply Planning Manager to join our Point of Sales Materials (POSM) Supply Chain team on an interim basis. In this role, you will be responsible for leading a fantastic team of Supply Planners that ensure our products reach the right place, at the right time, at the right cost and deliver a world-class consumer experience. With a mindset of continuous improvement and a passion for developing people, you will be responsible for the planning excellence in our POSM value chain. The key success factors for this position include collaboration, teamwork, process understanding, and supply chain understanding.

Lead the Supply Planning team with a clear objective

As our new Senior Manager in Supply Planning, your main responsibility will be to lead the team with a clear objective and a growth mindset. You will also serve as an interface that creates direction and clarity to a diverse stakeholder landscape.

Furthermore, your accountabilities will include:

• Be accountable for all our global supply planning for POSM materials, ensuring high product availability across ten regional distribution centers (DCs) at lowest cost and inventory.
• Optimise inventory performance, balancing demand, cost, and service levels both on strategic and operational horizons.
• Collaborate with Store Creative & Design, Procurement, Merchandising, and Regional Operations to streamline planning processes to find and deliver cost improvements.
• Lead projects aimed to further develop our planning excellence, improve resilience and a more cost-efficient value chain.
• Set the vision and strategy for the Supply Planning team and ensure a continuous improvement mindset within the team.
• Be part of leading and executing on our large full transformation of planning in [xxxxx] (HERO Programme) where we implement O9 as our new fully integrated planning solution end-2-end.

This is a 12-month maternity cover position.

Strong value chain capabilities and a can-do attitude

In this position, we are looking for a fact-based and result-driven team player who thrives in a dynamic and ever-changing environment. You will need strong analytical skills as well as the ability to manage large sets of data and present results in a simple manner. It is important that you are curious and humble, as well as open to challenge. You can collaborate cross-functionally in a global environment.

Furthermore, we hope that you have and can demonstrate:

• +3 years of experience within Planning, Supply Planning, Supply Chain Development or similar
• Experience from retail, fashion or FMCG industry is a plus
• Experience from global organisation
• Experience in management or indirect management (project leadership for example)- Strong individual leadership.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially with Excel
• QlikView, PowerBI, O9 and Logility (is a plus)
• Fluency in English, verbally and written

Did we get your attention?

We hope you got all your questions answered and feel confident applying for this position, however if you have more questions regarding the position, please contact:

Kelly Kavarnou

Global Recruiter

kekav@[xxxxx].net

If you see yourself in the position and would like to become a part of [xxxxx]’s future, please do not hesitate to apply. We are an international team, so please make sure to send us your application in English to be considered. We look forward to hearing from you!

We process applications on a continuous basis, which is why we encourage you to send your application as soon as possible. You can also read more about [xxxxx] on our corporate site www.[xxxxx]group.com.

Icing on the cake

You will be working out of our Head Office in Copenhagen V. Besides our beautiful interior design, we are also proud of our LEED Gold Certification for Energy and Environmental Design. This means that we use as few natural resources as possible and that we use them with respect. The result is a professional and dynamic space that is unique, comfortable and inspirational – and delivers a true [xxxxx] experience to anyone who works here or comes to visit.

About [xxxxx]

[xxxxx] is the world's largest jewellery brand, specialising in the design, crafting and marketing of accessible luxury jewellery made from high-quality materials. Each piece is created to inspire self-expression, allowing people to share their stories and passions through meaningful jewellery. [xxxxx] jewellery is sold in more than 100 countries through 6,800 points of sale, including more than 2,700 concept stores.

Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, [xxxxx] employs 37,000 people worldwide and crafts its jewellery using only recycled silver and gold. [xxxxx] is committed to leadership in sustainability and has set out to halve greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by 2030. [xxxxx] is listed on the Nasdaq Copenhagen stock exchange and generated revenue of DKK 31.7 billion (EUR 4.2 billion) in 2024.

At [xxxxx], we believe that creating an inclusive and diverse workplace and reflecting societal diversity in our customer engagement is essential to delivering on our company purpose: to give a voice to people’s loves. We dedicate ourselves to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and diversity where everyone feels respected and valued.