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Supply Chain Specialist

Posted 26 Mar 2024
Work experience
2 to 4 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

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We’re Kingfisher. You might know us as B&Q, Screwfix, Castorama, Brico Depot or Koçtaş. We’re made up of over 78,000 passionate people, call over 1,300 stores home and operate in 8 countries. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.

At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

We advocate the benefits of a flexible and hybrid working environment, recognising that this means different things, to different people, in different roles. Want to apply as a job share, or propose a way of working that isn’t the traditional 9am – 5pm, Monday through to Friday? We’re all ears.

We're recruiting for a forward-thinking Supply Chain Specialist who will act as the supply planning contact point for Categories, Buying Offices and Banners for range changes and day to day operational queries related to a specific category.

You will work with allocated OEB (Own Exclusive Brands) WEBO (Western European Buying Office) vendors to manage their supply chain performance in line with agreed SLAs and OTIF targets.

This role can be based in either our Southampton or Yeovil Headoffice.

Key responsibilities in the role:

  • Works within the Group Supply Chain team to create the supply plan for range reviews projects for a specific category identifying and shaping operational requirements spanning range conception (e.g. MOQ/MOV/Routes to Market), analysing sales forecasts, providing cost analysis through the cost modelling tool and providing data to support final vendor selections
  • Looks for opportunities to continuously optimise supply planning for the category to ensure robust availability balanced with strong cost control
  • Conducts supply chain audits for new prospective vendors to ensure their capability and suitability to supply Kingfisher and delivers vendor onboarding ensuring understanding of their delivery obligations in line with the Kingfisher Vendor Manual
  • Interacts with vendors to manage their performance, highlight, and resolve operational issues and ensure high levels of OTIF
  • Provides a proactive communication flow to all stakeholders – Banner Supply Teams, Sourcing and Categories
  • Travel to vendor sites up to 30%

Skills and experience required to deliver in this role:

  • Intermediate level of E2E Supply Chain
  • Foundation levels of Supply Chain Planning & Order Management, Inventory & Flow Management, Vendor Management and Vendor Onboarding.
  • Foundation level of Critical Data & Information Analysis skill & experience

Competitive salary + benefits including -

Company bonus, award-winning pension scheme, discount at B&Q, Bupa healthcare (up to family cover).

We are passionate about our people, which is why we are committed to delivering 5 million hours of training by 2025!

This is an exciting opportunity to join our global business. In return, we provide an inspirational working environment, a competitive benefits package and opportunities to stretch and grow your career. Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.

Kingfisher plc is a home improvement company with over 1,300 stores in 10 countries across Europe, Russia and Turkey supported by a team of 77,300 colleagues. We operate under four retail brands - B&Q, Castorama, Brico Dépôt and Screwfix.

Retail
London
5,000 employees