About H&H Group and Zesty Paws:
We're Health & Happiness (H&H) Group, a global company focused on premium nutrition for adults, kids, and pets in the eCommerce space. Zesty Paws is growing faster than we planned. The demand for first-time and repeat purchases are both energizing and overwhelming. The truth is, we need help, and we are hoping you can help us.
Solid Gold was founded in 1974 on the belief that food can support the system at its core for lifelong health. That’s why we are so passionate about supporting the system, not masking problems. Solid Gold takes a holistic approach to gut health because we know that healthy digestion positively impacts both the immune system and overall wellness of pets. We proudly represent our products in specialty pet stores across the US and Canada
Your role within the team
Reporting into Global Planning Director, this role will be responsible to support Supply Planning, managing on-time deliveries (purchase orders), as well as ensuring adequate inventory level to support the growth of North America business. He/she will be assisting in the analysis that are required for monthly S&OP Process. He/she will be closely collaborating with North America / Global team for Sourcing and logistic function, as well as partnering with local Brand functions (Sales Ops, Marketing, Product Development, Finance, Regulatory & Quality team) to ensure products are available in a timely manner with optimal inventory level.
Duties and responsibilities
- Drive Monthly Buy Executions based on the result of supply & inventory plans, continuous process improvement and time management. Ensuring execution is smooth and in timely manner, provide support on ad hoc requests.
- Drive Monthly Buy forecast (finished goods) and cascade process with Co-manufacturers, increase the leverage of Buy forecast for driving material positioning.
- Responsible for monthly/ad hoc material and packaging purchases and deliveries via evaluation of supply plan requirements, liaise with Suppliers for best date of deliveries and material reserves.
- Constantly partnering with team members to thoroughly understand stock / supply situation and be able to identify gaps between Sales and supply and be able to propose action plans against risks and opportunities.
- Owns analysis and implement considerations into supply planning (finished goods, raw materials, packaging) and ability to explain different iterations of assumption, drive for consensus solutions to tackle any supply challenges.
- Regular inventory analysis to identify potential liability exposure and driving mitigation opportunities to avoid write-off.
- Ability to analyze current supply constraints and issue against North America’s orders, identify opportunities to drive future improvement to smoothen supply planning and ordering process.
- Building and maintaining strong partnerships with local stake holders (Sales / Demand team, marketing and product development team) to ensure thoroughly understanding the launch and sales plans specific to the North America business.
- Driving alignment across multiple functions (Global / Regional functions) to ensure purchase orders can be fulfilled on timely manner across all Brands and regions.
- Managing North America’s inventory with optimal level, constantly review result of demand changes and actively look into solution to tackle challenges on inventory risks & opportunities
- Partnering with Sourcing team to ensure capacity plans and reserves will be able to supply orders from H&H group.
- Supporting Monthly S&OP Process supported by Planning Director to ensure continuously tracking and executing the decisions resulting from Monthly S&OP Process.
- Ability to raise challenges via S&OP Process to ensure accountability of our stakeholders and strive for improvements and delivering results, able to resolve obstacles and getting consensus conclusion with counterparts.
Desired Skills and Experience
- Minimum 5 years of practical experience in Supply Planning, Inventory management
- Pet Food or FMCG industry working experience is preferred
- Strong business acumen with outstanding analytical as well as problem-solving skills.
- Well-organized, logical & mature thinking, attention to details, dedicated, energetic and being a self-starter
- Computer literate with excellent knowledge and hands-on experience in Excel, PowerPoint and other MS Office applications. Practical experience in SAP / Oracle / D365