Supply Chain Associate
- Manila City, Metro Manila
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Be a key part of Print & Distribution campaigns from client brief through to delivery completion
- Responsible for allocating correct merchandising materials to stores at an individual level based on the client's strategy
- Maintain a database of client stores and individual allocations, used for validating merchandising orders for each campaign
- Review the dispatch schedule planning at an individual country level based off of product availability dates, historical transit times and vendor capacity / resource
- Track vendor spend against budget by ensuring 100% accuracy of finance trackers, recording vendor quotes and flagging to P&D team lead when actual spend is close to budget
- Build a hindsight report after every campaign, outlining elements that worked well / didn't work so well and areas for improvement across vendor, client and internal processes
- Demonstrate expertise in the delivery of projects through management of client expectations, internal processes and cross-functional department involvement
- Set and manage client expectations ensuring they follow the agreed workflows
- Build strong, trusting relationships with all key stakeholders - function leads, cross functional producers, senior managers and 3rd party vendors that are directly involved with the work
- Write, prepare and present documents, presentations and reports where required
- The P&D Project Manager reports to P&D Regional Team Lead. This role work closely with the Regional Localisation PM and Studio teams.
- The P&D Project Manager has no direct reports.
- 2-3 years of experience working on global retail and/or shopper accounts, from creative development to final production (critical path management).
- Relevant merchandising, demand planning or print production and localisation experience, additionally logistics experience will be beneficial
- Advanced excel skills essential (complex formulas, large database management, dashboards, pivot wizard etc - VBA advantageous but not required)
- Experience of Budget Management
- Excellent communication skills; written, verbal and presentation
- Attention to detail, analytical thinking ability and passion for the work are essential
- Calm under pressure with a positive attitude and a hands-on, can-do approach to solving problems
- The ability to prioritise and work quickly and efficiently within very tight time frames
- Able to work weekends and longer hours on site with the client during time constrained projects 2-3 times per year. Due to client confidentiality, remote working is not allowed during this period.
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