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Senior Supply Planner

Posted 22 Mar 2024
Work experience
5 to 7 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
Dutch (Fluent)

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Senior Supply Planner

Zwaagdijk

Full-time

With over 50.000 employees and more than 1.700 stores, Action is growing extremely fast as we are expanding our market share but also penetrating new markets. With more intake on inventory and more DC’s each year, we are called to manage a more complex network. Working at Action means working at a dynamic and fast paced company where you continuously learn and grow.

As a Senior Supply Planner you will be part of the Supply Chain Planning department and report to the Unit Planning Manager. The Senior Supply Planner is in close contact with the Category Demand Planner, Category Buyer and Individual suppliers.

The main focus of the Senior Supply Planner lies in ensuring optimal inventory levels and availability for our stores and DC’s. You are the main point of contact for the supplier to ensure optimal delivery and solve any delivery issues. You have the ability to signal core issues and provide input to improve category and/or supplier performance on a continuous basis. You know your way around the business in order to fully align all supply chain related activities with relevant stakeholders within your category/supplier domain.

Your daily Actions

Provide input and feedback on day-to-day performance and issues. Participate in periodic meetings with key suppliers of the category and take the role of category lead and representative towards neighboring departments. Be end-responsible to set up a pre-season tactical plan for the flow of goods (replenishment strategy, allocation strategy, in season monitoring, open to buy, seasonal evaluations, goods flow optimization, etc.). Furthermore, using your experience, you will signal core issues and set up improvement plans at category-supplier level in order to optimize overall performance. There will be opportunities to participate in projects and play a senior role in the team, replacing the UPM if necessary in operational matters. Other tasks will involve validating and creating purchase orders per DC provided by the replenishment system, and the monitoring and maintenance of KPI's on a daily basis. Additionally, there will be a requirement to follow up on in time and in full delivery of supplier for domestic and direct import suppliers, and following up on delivery issues on a daily basis. The monitoring of inbound deliveries in the portal on a daily basis will also be a task. Being the category lead, will mean that you communicate and cooperate with your cross functional stakeholders such as buying, commercial and logistics in order to achieve (common) goals. Promotions will need to be monitored in order to ensure in time and in full availability of promo items as well as maintaining contacts with suppliers in order to follow up on issues and take mitigating actions to prevent issues with suppliers. You will be carrying out administrative tasks such as maintaining logistic and order management data, and, maintaining forecasts in the replenishment system.

Who you are

You are very organized, able to structure activities, stick to agreements within deadlines and according to guidelines. You work efficiently and effectively, also when under time pressure. You make proposals for efficient and effective working methods with the least possible complexity and implements these. Due to the fact that you are the absolute expert in your field, you will participate in projects that reach beyond your own planning activities. You are able to switch from detailed operational processes to high-level planning overviews. You are proactive and you work effectively with others (eg buying, logistics, suppliers) to achieve common goals.

Furthermore you have:

  • Minimum Bachelor degree
  • 5+ years of relevant work experience, preferably within retail
  • English in speaking and writing
  • Excellent knowledge of Excel
  • Knowledge of SAP is a pré
  • Knowledge of forecasting and replenishment systems
  • Affinity with numbers and data

What we offer

  • Market-based salary
  • 24 holiday days and the option to buy 5 extra days a year (based on 38 hours)
  • A company laptop
  • Flexible working hours
  • The option to participate within a collective health insurance scheme
  • 15% staff discount on Action merchandise in Action stores
  • Extensive education and training possibilities at our own Action Academy

Action is dé snelgroeiende internationale non-food discounter met meer dan 500 winkels in Nederland, België, Duitsland en Frankrijk en meer dan 20.000 medewerkers. Van oorsprong zijn we een Nederlandse winkel en met onze no nonsens mentaliteit staan we bekend om onze lage prijzen en een divers en verrassend assortiment.
Action groeit sterk qua omzet, resultaat, aantal winkels en aantal werknemers. Op…


Action is dé snelgroeiende internationale non-food discounter met meer dan 500 winkels in Nederland, België, Duitsland en Frankrijk en meer dan 20.000 medewerkers. Van oorsprong zijn we een Nederlandse winkel en met onze no nonsens mentaliteit staan we bekend om onze lage prijzen en een divers en verrassend assortiment.

Action groeit sterk qua omzet, resultaat, aantal winkels en aantal werknemers. Op de plekken waar we ons vestigen geven we een positieve impuls aan de economie en werkgelegenheid. Ons hoofdkantoor en grootste distributiecentrum zijn gevestigd in Zwaagdijk-Oost (Noord-Holland). Het tweede distributiecentrum, gevestigd in Limburg, is gebouwd om verdere internationale groei te faciliteren. Het bevoorraadt de landen België, Duitsland en Frankrijk en het zuidelijk deel van Nederland.

Retail
Zwaagdijk
20,000 employees