- Work with well-known brands and diverse stakeholders across the business
- Join a progressive and leading global manufacturer
- Busy and collaborative work environment
The Detmold Group is a leading manufacturer of specialised paper and board packaging products. From their first factory in Adelaide, the Detmold Group has now grown to 7 manufacturing locations and sales offices in 17 countries and employs around 3,000 people. Detmold supply to a diverse range of customers including some of the world's most iconic brands. We are a business that is proud of our People, Brand, and Products.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an aspiring leader to make their mark by driving service excellence and lowering costs in the supply, and management of inventory.
Reporting to the Group General Manager Supply Chain and leading a team of Inventory Planners, the role of Inventory Planning Leader is responsible for coordinating and delivering high quality services to our operations and sales community, while maintaining required inventory levels.
Responsibilities include:
- Providing leadership that will challenge, develop, and inspire the team to focus on improvement across all areas of performance and to deliver on objectives
- Ensuring engagement and collaborative relationships with key stakeholders in the business
- Lowering transactional costs associated with supply of goods to customers
- Driving reductions in finished goods required to meet service expectations
- Proactively managing supply gaps, shortfalls, and transitions
- Driving aged stock reduction and inventory turns
- Challenging existing practices and service proposition to ensure we continue to add value to our customers
- Adding commercial acumen to supply model evaluations
You will ideally possess the following:
- Demonstrated experience in a similar Inventory Planning role
- Interpersonal skills which are inclusive and encourage the development, cooperation, and support of others and which emphasise and encourage a professional service delivery focus
- Results driven with strong business acumen, analytical capability, and integrative approach to business
- Sound project management skills
- Highest level of commitment to servicing internal customers
- Excellent problem-solving ability including use of sound judgement
- The ability to energise, engage and inspire others around common goals and values
- Clear analytical and commercial decision making, while being proactive, tenacious, and persistent
To be successful within this role you will have a passion for Inventory Planning, coupled with the capacity to maintain focus when managing competing demands and to persevere until the solution is achieved. Your natural ability to foster relationships and ability to communicate effectively and influence at all levels of the organisation will place you well for this role.
Enquiries welcome to Abi Wheeler (08) 8348 3885.
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