Supply Chain Manager | Plant based food scaleup brand | London / Hybrid

Harmonic are pleased to be working alongside one of London's most innovative and exciting plant-based food scaleup brands on the hire of a Supply Chain Manager.

Only a few years into their journey, our client have quickly become a household name and have scaled through an omnichannel approach to growth. Having built their brand firstly through a D2C offering and more recently through listings in major UK retailers (think Sainsburys, Morrison etc) our client has a diverse sales strategy which has seen their brand grow to c.£10m turnover. Reporting into the Head of Operations, this role will play a key part in the management of key supplier relationships ensuring that stock levels are maintained as well as key efficiencies across the management of cash flow and operating margins.

Our client is very innovative and puts a lot of thought and creativity into their products, with innovative new SKUs coming to market frequently. Their culture also mirrors this with the business being incredibly innovative, collaborative, and creative. The team works with lots of autonomy so this would suit candidates who enjoy working in the SME space which is fast paced with lots of change and development.

The Supply Chain Manager will take ownership of building out new processes, using data to continuously improve decision making and have a strong eye for numbers. A requirement for this role is to have experience across sales and operations planning with confident excel skills to help analyse large data sets, pull out key trends and narratives which can be translated into commercial growth.

Above all this role joins a market beating business and offers the chance for a step-up to take the lead of their operating model for S&OP as well as the wider supply chain.

The Role

Reporting into the Head of Operations, this role will be responsible for:

• Management of the Demand Planning. To be confident in translating their business forecasts into supply plans which they can communicate to their suppliers for raw material ordering and production purposes
• Leading the S&OP process from a back end/Operations perspective, partnering closely with the internal Commercial teams to maintain commercial planning and operational performance alignment.
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, and make trade-offs, as well as balance business needs versus constraints
• Lead the gap analysis between their commercial "top-down" budget with their "bottom-up" SKU level forecasts, working cross-functionally to determine the best sales projections for their products
• Standardise the process for reporting information in S&OP, ensuring that the right level of information is available to the right audience at the right time.
• Help define their future approach to supplier relationship management, improving their ways of working with their operational partners to improve efficiency and flexibility (e.g. reducing order to delivery lead times)
• Focus on continuous improvement across the Supply Chain, ranging from improving their product stratification management through to identifying means to improve forecast accuracy for both new and existing product lines
• Support on Improving their Supply Chain resilience on an ongoing basis through assessment of their procurement model, safety stocks, and other levers to ensure they can whether any future supply chain disruption as effectively as possible

What our client would like to see:

• Strong understanding of data and metrics. The ideal candidate will have advanced Excels skills
• Evidence of continuous improvement across the S&OP process
• End-to-end supply chain experience
• Experience with large UK grocery retailers such as supplying products into Sainsburys, Tesco, Waitrose, Morrisons, Asda or Ocado
• Omnichannel supply chain experience

What we would like to see:

• Experience with a food or beverage challenger brand
• Experience across a Seed to Series A business or Series A to Series B business
• Confident communicator
• Strong analytical and data skills

Salary: £50,000 to £60,000 plus competitive benefits package

Work pattern: Hybrid working offered