GB Inventory Risk and Losses Management, Senior Manager

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GB Inventory Risk and Losses Management, Senior Manager, Central London

Client:

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners

Location:

Central London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Finance

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

70550ecf8886

Job Views:

7

Posted:

20.02.2025

Expiry Date:

06.04.2025

Job Description:

Are you looking for new challenges and personal growth within Coca-Cola Europacific Partners? Then we have a great opportunity for you!
Do you have a personality with the power to influence and connect?
Can you sustain the pace to keep on growing?
Will you make an impact with your desire to win?

Structured career development + Annual performance related pay bonus and pay reviews + Share scheme + Competitive pension contributions + Range of flexible benefits and Corporate discounts including childcare vouchers, holiday buy/sell scheme + Car allowance/ Company car + Laptop + Health care + Excellent parental benefits + Flexible working

Purpose of the role:

The Senior Manager for GB Inventory Risk and Losses Management is a new 12-month FTC and designed to play a critical role within the wider GB Planning function, ensuring efficient management of inventories to minimize excessive finished goods and raw materials losses supporting delivery of the losses financial metrics. The role is responsible for reducing and preventing excessive inventories by improving end-to-end planning process to optimize stock levels, improve forecast accuracy and reduce obsolescence to avoid unnecessary write-offs. By leveraging data-driven insights, cross functional collaboration and continuous improvement initiatives, the role enhances supply chain efficiencies and ensures inventory is effectively aligned with business demand. Through proactive planning and risk mitigation, this role directly contributes to cost reduction, working capital optimization, and overall financial stability.

The GB Planning function is responsible for ensuring the right products are available at the right time, at the right place, in the right quantities and at the right cost to meet business and customer needs. It plays a critical role in balancing supply and demand whilst optimizing resources and minimising inefficiencies. Within GB Planning the functions of Demand, Supply, Scheduling, Raw Materials, Deployment and S&OP are included.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop and implement strategies to optimise planning processes and minimize losses in inventory across both Finished Goods and Raw Materials
• Identify inefficiencies, excess inventory and process gaps and lead initiatives to address them
• Drive data-driven decision-making using advanced analytics and planning tools
• Collaborate with cross functional teams across Customer Service & Supply Chain and Commercial to align planning strategies with business goals and implement mitigation strategies to minimise losses
• Establish Key performance indicators to monitor and improve losses performance
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives with the wider Sales and Operations planning process to minimize losses
• Ensure best practices in planning process, scenario modelling and risk mitigation strategies
• Own weekly and monthly updates on Losses risks and performance
• Proactively identify opportunities to minimize losses and mitigate risk/impact by collaborating with Customer Service & Supply Chain and Commercial teams
• Co-ordinate end-to-end across all functions to identify solutions when it comes to excess inventory issues and keep stakeholders updated on progress
• Extensive Supply Chain planning experience in an FMCG environment, with a track record of delivering continuous improvements across process and KPI’s
• Excellent communication (including presentations) with the ability to run highly effective meetings
• Be able to effectively communicate with stakeholders at all levels, and simplify complex messages
• Ability to engage and positively influence internal stakeholders across both Supply Chain and Commercial in a fast paced, matrixed organization
• Highly analytical with proficiency in the use of Excel and PowerPoint
• Demonstrated leadership with ability to drive positive change in cross functional team environments
• Great organization skills, strategic thinking and attention to detail
• Excellent problem solving skills with a strong business acumen
• Proven ability to manage conflicting agendas
• Proven ability to deal with complex and ambiguous information
• Experience in supply or business planning systems
• Experience in losses reduction initiatives, inventory write-off and residual sales prevention and process optimisation
• Degree educated preferred

We are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) – a dedicated team of 42,000 people, serving customers in 31 countries, who work together to make, move and sell some of the world’s most loved drinks.
We are a global business and one of the leading consumer goods companies in the world. We help our 2.1 million customers grow, and we are constantly investing in exciting new products, innovative technologies and fresh ideas. This helps us to delight the 600 million people who enjoy our drinks every day.

From gender, age and ethnicity to sexual orientation and different abilities, we welcome people from all walks of life and empower unique perspectives. We recognise we’ve got some way to go, but we’ll get there with the support of our people. It’s them who drive our future growth.