Rich Products Australia 

Supply Chain

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Purpose Statement Rich Products, a $5.5Billion food manufacturing company, is currently looking to hire an Integrated Supply Chain Planning Lead.
In this role, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring a well-coordinated and efficient supply chain, which is crucial for meeting customer demands, reducing costs and improving overall business performance.
You will work closely with supply and demand teams, as well as operations and sales.
Our ideal candidate will bring their supply & demand experience within the food and beverage/CPG/FMCG industries, to provide end-to-end planning visibility within the division, and be able to assess risks and shortfalls, implementing solutions to mitigate these and provide best-in-class service to our customers.
Our preference is for this role to be located at our WHQ in Buffalo, NY, but we are open to remote applicants as well.
Key Accountabilities and Outcomes: Demand and Supply Coordination: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align demand forecasts with supply chain capabilities, ensuring products are available when needed while minimizing excess inventory.
Process Optimization: Streamline and improve supply chain planning processes, including demand forecasting, inventory management, production planning and distribution.
Data Analysis: Utilize data analytics tools and techniques to analyze historical data, market trends, and customer behavior to make informed decisions and optimize planning.
Inventory Management: Partner with Inventory Manager to implement strategies to optimize inventory levels, reduce carrying costs, and improve product availability.
Risk Management: Identify potential supply chain disruptions and develop contingency plans to mitigate risks, such as supplier issues, transportation delays, or natural disasters.
Technology Integration: Evaluate and implement supply chain planning software and technologies to enhance visibility and efficiency.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate closely with sales, marketing, production, procurement, and logistics teams to ensure alignment of goals and priorities.
Establish a high-performance culture of accountability (clear targets and expectations), transparency, collaboration, and continuous learning. Identify opportunities and avenues for teams to learn and expand their skillset.
Manage the development of the 21+ month forecast and demand plan at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons (operational and strategic).
Promote objectivity for conflict resolution between Sales, Marketing and Demand Planning team during the consensus building process, prioritizing organizational goals over functional goals during consensus building process.
Manage talent within the team and develop their competencies and career growth plan.
Participate in industry, supply chain and technology forums and bring best practices around demand planning, industry trends and share lessons with the team.

Integrated Supply Chain Planning Lead

Engineering Manager

• Define manufacturing opportunities that can be solved through process/packaging design and/or packing technology, controls and/or automation solutions, develops sound technical and business proposals to help obtain leadership support for evaluation and execution.
• Perform technical calculations, analysis and development work that support material and technology requirements and recommendations, connects with materials, equipment, controls and software vendors, as well as manufacturing operations partners, to create technical solutions, and collaborates with internal and external resources to deliver them.
• Take projects through technical discovery, design and delivery by analyzing and documenting options, preparing and executing block diagrams, transformation flow sheets, process simulations, small scale testing, risk assessments, Failure Mode Analysis, reliability and quality analyses, study lists, cost estimates, safety studies, technical recommendations, schedule, prototyping, learning plans, test plans, equipment/material testing, troubleshooting, equipment/material acceptance, construction and start-up plans.
• Act as technical project lead SME, directly owning and delivering project management to funding that consists of project scope, cost, technical readiness, justification and funding, management reviews, project execution plans, overall construction, schedule adherence, start-up and delivery of all project success criteria.
• Partner with Manufacturing Operations and/or Package Development on technology and/or packaging material solutions to deliver safety, quality, reliability, operability, maintainability, sustainability and cost targets, as well as technology transfer and training needs.
• Work with packaging materials, equipment and technology vendors to develop and deliver best in class solutions at committed cost, quality, schedule and technical results.
• Create and manage equipment/technology documentation and standards.
• Communicate well with leadership regarding project progress and plans.
• All other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Principal Engineering Manager – Automation

• Rich Products Corporation (Rich's) is transforming its core operational system (S/4HANA) and processes
• Role: Order to Cash Transformation Manager supporting the Galileo (S/4HANA) Program
• Coordinate Order to Cash program accountabilities and provide leadership across markets
• Influence and support organizational change during transformation
• Support activities in LATAM; candidates must be bilingual English and Spanish
• Travel expected ~25% domestic and international
• Lead, influence strategy, facilitate collaboration among stakeholders and drive adoption of Order to Cash elements
• Participate in Galileo workstreams, support OCM activities, training development and go-live activities
• Support localization while balancing simple, standard, global solutions
• Develop in-depth understanding of Order to Cash S/4HANA functionality and application to processes

Integrated Supply Chain Planning Lead

Principal Engineering Manager – Automation

Manager, Supply Chain Transformation