Job Opportunities at Avon

Role Type

Permanent

What You'll Be Doing

• Ensuring the highest possible service level is achieved by strategically optimizing product flow through the supply chain.
• Stabilize New Product Development (NPD) agenda and deliver NPD on time in full.
• Effectively minimize inventory cost and control functions to planning department standards.
• Minimize Air freight spend through effective forward planning and SLA management.

Key Responsibilities

• Balance daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly supply and demand issues whilst maintaining inventory targets.
• Liaison with local and regional planners, marketing and sales to ensure service delivery.
• Facilitating Risk Review meetings.
• Collating and processing of statistical information.
• Proactively liaise with stakeholders in the supply chain to improve service levels, reduce inventory, and air freight cost.
• Evaluating purchase orders to create suitable production schedules.
• Preparation of Supply review slides.
• Version control – responsible for system accuracy.
• Analyze stock on hand figures to actively drive down inventory days.
• Manage the NPD process and Stage gate from initiation to Completion to order placement to CM’S.
• Campaign readiness preparation report – to highlight operational consequences and needs.
• Concorde system setup before campaign go-live date.
• Run down stock quantities in readiness for new product entries and phase outs (Status Conversion) - (PIPO).
• Liaise and support the marketing department on any initiatives to deplete excess ,aged or discontinued stock items through Inventory reduction initiatives.
• Promptly addressing and resolving production issues to minimize delays in production.
• Recommending viable solutions to reduce production costs as well as improve production processes and product quality.
• Estimating the amount of material, equipment, and labour required for production.
• Manage the Red List/ Expired Materials at All CM’s.
• Recommending viable solutions to reduce production costs as well as improve production processes and product quality.
• Manage the complete Gifting process.

We'd Love You To Have

• Relevant University Degree (pref. Supply Chain Related).
• Proven experience working as a production planner.
• Proficiency in all Microsoft Office applications.
• Sound knowledge of material requirements planning (MRP) and related software.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Effective communication skills.
• Demonstrated knowledge of best in class supply chain and planning practices.
• Demonstrated knowledge of lean supply chain practices
• Proven experience in implementing supply chain agility improvements.
• Problem solving will be a daily activity for this person as the demand volatility and supply constraints occur on an ongoing basis will require quick yet analytical thin

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What You'll Be Doing

Job Description Summary / Purpose of role

• Accurate forecasting is a key driver for Business KPI’s - critical in supporting the Representative and business profitability through providing insights to trends, risks and opportunities, and in reduction in inventory and improvement of service
• Accurately forecast concepts over the required time horizons and load on time into APT
• Communicate risks (upside or downside) or confirmed changes to Supply Chain
• Accurately review and amend concept splits (shades / colour / sizes) for creative execution
• Maintain accurate and up to date in line concept splits (if relevant)

Key Responsibilities

• Accurately and timely forecasting of concepts
• Using the most up to date appropriate and key historical data
• Amending for creative execution
• On schedule loading to APT, double check demands in Maps for visibility to supply chain.
• Amend forecast following trend results
• Analyzing results for lessons to learn
• Analysis for Key drivers for success
• Identify risks and communicate to the Business and Supply Chain
• Ensure the integrity of the Forecast inputs (the impact of Source of Sales and the New Product Forecasts) and impact of cannibalization
• Update concept splits (shade / colour / size) where required
• Accuracy tracking and analysis for KPI improvement
• Run Tab accuracy reports tracking Business KPI’s for Wape Bulls Eye & Bias
• Analyse Outliers
• Complete Root Cause Analysis results for issues with ideas for improving KPI’s
• Ad Hoc tasks in support of DP Team & Project Work
• Track results for improvement in performance -
• Newness vs trends and actuals - implement where applicable changes following latest results to maximize impact on accuracy KPI’s, service and inventory improvement
• In line results for changing patterns – update future forecasts based on observed trends
• Run campaign Wape & Bulls Eye Tableau reports vs Business KPI’s (Inventory & service) – analysis results for improvement
• Complete root cause analysis and implement learnings.

We'd Love You To Have

• BCom Degree (Pref Supply chain related / Economics) / BCom Hons / Industrial Engineering
• 2-3 years’ experience in similar business environment
• Forecasting or data analysis experience required together with excellent organizational skills. Attention to detail is critical in this role
• Strong ability to analysis data and understand weighting data within the category and overall business context for accurate forecasting.
• Forecast inaccuracy will directly impact service to Representatives and also could increase inventory levels that directly impact business profitability – Supply Chain, Representative , Commercial marketing
• Key Influencers, Partnerships & Interaction Type
• Good communication skills required with extensive cross functional collaboration
• No overall knowledge of direct selling required but a good understanding of sales and operations planning / supply chain / commercial impact of demand planning is needed
• Passionate driver – Take responsibility for results, actions and resolving issues working to tight deadlines within a pressurized environment
• Emotionally intelligent – Seeks feedback and manages impact of style on others
• Global builder – build relationship with Supply chain, Category & Core Store through use of effective communication
• Dealing with ambiguity – forecasts by nature are never correct and everyone will have an opinion; forecasters need to be comfortable with this.