VMI Supply Planner 1

Job Description
Based at Wattie's office, to provide a pivotal link between Customers and Kraft Heinz with responsibility for ensuring that Kraft Heinz inventory is efficiently and effectively replenished across all customers DCs and stores whilst minimising out of stocks.
This fast-paced role is critical to ensure we get our forecasting, ordering and delivery right as well as strengthening our relationships with our customers to hit our KPIs.
Internally you will work cross functionally with Sales, Logistics, Demand and Supply Planning teams.
Responsibilities:
Manage service levels & days of supply

• Order placement and stock replenishment of customer warehouse and stores
• Ensuring alignment on baseline, promotional and seasonal forecasting with Customer and Sales
• Proactive communication of service issues with suggested resolutions daily as well as root cause analysis
• Key collaborative link between Kraft Heinz & Customer on supply issues, new lines and event management
• Maintenance of data integrity

Improve supply chain efficiencies

• Load builds
• Review of lead times and delivery frequency
• Full Pallet and Truck Ordering
• Ensuring customer delivery standards are maintained
• Working capital (customer)

About you:

• Tertiary qualified
• Robust stakeholder management with a customer centric mindset
• 3+years FMCG/Retail experience in a supply/demand capacity
• Strong communication capability
• Ability to effectively analyse data and problem solve to drive critical decision making
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Understanding of supply chain planning, inventory management, replenishment, warehousing, and transport

Benefits program:
We empower our people to own their work, and it's true our employees are our competitive advantage - so we take care of our Kraft Heinz family with our 'Live Well' benefits program:

• Gatherings - End of Year Celebration
• Wellbeing - annual health checks & flu shots, wellbeing sessions & webinars
• Parental Leave - 12 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregiver

The Kraft Heinz Company Australia & New Zealand is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces, promotes and values diversity and inclusion.
Location(s)
Newmarket - Auckland
Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.