3rd Party Commercialisation Manager (Supply Chain)

Application Deadline: 22 November 2024

Department: Tea Supply Chain

Employment Type: Fixed Term - Full Time

Location: Andover

Description

Great People Work Here

Are you searching for a career with bags of variety, in an environment that celebrates differences and empowers collaboration, which values individuals and will encourage you to make an impact? Do you want the freedom to explore, and the opportunities to find new ways and to innovate? If so,  TwiningsOvo delivers.  

We’re looking for people who don’t just come here to get the job done, but who have a real passion for the brand and a desire to do the best job they can. In return, we offer an inspiring package of employee benefits - to show just how much we value you. This role will offer you the scope for growth and the tools to aim high.

As a Twinings Supply Chain team, our mission is to create value through agility and great partnerships - to ensure that we are catalysts of growth for the business and continue to delight our consumers.

To enhance our mission, the 3rd Party Commercialisation Manager role was created to support the delivery of disruptive NPD projects involving third parties from a supply chain perspective, being a key bridge between NPD and supply chain - to ensure that the right people from each business area are involved at the right time on a project. 

On a broader scale, the Commercialisation Manager is designed around ensuring that the right supply chain model is identified and implemented for Twinings NPD projects involving new formats (most recently, on our exciting new Sparkling Team / Ready to Drink range!). 

Can you help us to turn the ‘what’ into the ‘how’?

15 months FTC, Hybrid, Andover

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for “make or buy” decisions and managing the end-to-end scoping, set up and implementation of relevant products / services essential to meeting key deliverables.
   
• Connecting and liaising across all functions (Technical, Finance, Procurement, Planning, Customer Services & Logistics (PCSL), NPD, R&I, Market) will be key to ultimately assure seamless supply of innovation products.
  
  
• Ensure the right people / functions are involved at the right time to make timely decisions and enable smooth implementation of Disruptive innovation with relevant 3rd party suppliers.  
   
• Take overall responsibility for the supply chain workstream, including management and coordination of the end-to-end implementation of 3rd party sourcing to the point of commercialisation and handing over to “business as usual” operations i.e. 
  • Scoping: Determining sourcing decisions (make vs. buy), scanning for 3rd party capability and evaluating feasibility (financial and operational).
  • Setting up for success: Defining quality standards, testing protocols and supplier audits required, establishing contracts (including supplier performance and quality KPIs/metrics), determining the right planning and logistics processes, and finalising commercialisation of product at the 3rd party. 
  • Works closely with other workstream leads and the project manager to ensure timelines are created and interdependencies captured.
  • Representing supply chain at Steering meetings and other stakeholder meetings as appropriate.
    
    
• Create a 3rd party roadmap that is aligned to Markets’ 5 year innovation strategy to enable proactive exploration of future capability needs/gaps vs. our existing Supply Chain footprint. 
  
  
• Establishes great partnerships with R&I to identify trends in the innovation pipeline to enable proactive exploration of future capability needs/gaps vs our existing Supply Chain footprint.
  
  
• Continue to build and develop our 3rd party network and knowledge by continuously looking outside and analysing industry trends and evolving technology to proactively identify emerging opportunities.
  
  
• Work with cross-functional and Market stakeholders as well as suppliers to reach best overall business solution to meet innovation requirements. 

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• At least 3+ years of relevant operations/supply chain experience, within FMCG Supply Chain
• Experience with contract manufacturing suppliers 
• Strong preference for international sourcing experience
• Proven track record in challenging the status quo & delivering results
• Experience of working with senior leadership teams and of working in, and influencing, global teams
• Experience of managing diverse and international teams
• Deep understanding of end to end sourcing processe