Materials Senior Planning Director

 

 ABOUT COTY    

                                                                                                          

We’re Coty, one of the world’s largest beauty companies with an iconic portfolio of brands across fragrance, color cosmetics, and skin and body care. Coty is the global leader in fragrance and number three in color cosmetics. Coty’s products are sold in over 150 countries around the world. Coty and its brands are committed to a range of social causes as well as seeking to minimize its impact on the environment.

 

 ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT  

 

Within the Supply Chain function sit our Planning teams. With a population of over 300 people these teams are a competitor leading, purpose built Global Hub, covering a multitude of Planning areas where we share best practice in a centralized and standard way to deliver industry leading service at best cost and the right level of inventory.

 

 THE ROLE                                                                                                              

 

The Senior Planning Director is an active member of the Planning Leadership Team and leads an organisation of 40-60 people to deliver the Global Supply Chain strategy across the following areas:

 

• Material Supply Planning MSP: Working with Suppliers to ensure materials availability for site production, materials supply risk resolution and escalation, and materials inventory optimization.
• Material Supply Management MSM: Working with suppliers and procurement function to drive supplier capability and agility, long terms capacity planning and business continuity planning.
• Master Production Scheduling MPS: Working with plants on finished goods planning and scheduling, production capacity and volume control, and finished goods inventory optimization.
• New Product Development Planning NPD: Initiatives capacity assessment, Initiatives planning and coordination, PIPO Management. Risk Management and prioritization, initiatives execution and delivery at market level. Support and input to Supply Network Design projects.
• Distribution Requirements Planning DRP: Working with supply planning functions to ensure finished goods deployment and availability at the distribution centers, balancing service, cash, cost, and sustainability. Risk management and prioritization for base business and launches. Leading and driving communication with Market regarding supply availability.
• Category Supply Planning - Deliver annual glide paths and action plans to deliver the corporate objectives for continuous improvement in Inventory and Fill Rate. Inventory management and performance, planning operating strategy definition and optimization, AOP and Production volumes coordination, and product discontinuation coordination and optimization.
• Planning Capabilities: System expertise including training and development, system enhancement, planning SPOC for cross functional projects, establishing planning standards and system usage adherence.

 

Key Success Measures:

 

• Service – global fill rate and fill rate on time targets.
• Inventory – DFC days forward coverage, DOH days on hand, average inventory value $M.
• Cost and sustainability – productivity targets and budget management.
• Agility - ownership to drive breakthrough in material supply lead time (WALT).
• Initiatives – deliver Supply Chain readiness for Innovation from supplier E2E readiness to the Plant.
• 100% completion on time of all people management processes for your Planning team.
• Leadership and development of your Planning team.
• DEI targets and initiatives.

 

Core responsibilities:

 

• Define and lead medium to long-term planning strategies, aligned with the Hub’s and the wider business’ vision, setting goals and standards of performance in line with the KPIs.
• Clearly communicate and engage the team and wider business stakeholders in the strategies to ensure successful delivery.
• Define and lead the long-term supplier strategy, engaging with Procurement as appropriate, to deliver balanced service, cash and cost.
• Build reliable and strategic relationships with stakeholders across a global network to deliver targets and strategy.
• Define the organisation design ensuring the right people are in the right roles at the right time.
• Budget management for the total area, including air freight, finding the most responsible way to send our products for the environment and cost / Responsible for the air freight budget and. Ensuring spending of budget is in line with target and the relevant glidepath delivery.
• Manage inventory performance to deliver targets.
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