Beiersdorf - Modern Trade Servicing Manager

Job Description : Modern Trade Servicing Manager

Overall Obligation :

The Modern Trade Servicing Manager is :

- An integral functional part of the Nivea Modern Trade vertical looking after and responsible for all MT supply chain related processes

- Work along with the MT team and Demand team towards MT forecast improvement.

- Promo Allocation & Tracking

- NIVEA's SPOC to external and internal customer for all Supply Chain related activities

- Customer Servicing-(from PO raising to GRN entry)

- Retailers Accounts reconciliation-Supply Chain Part

- Monthly Review with retailers along with NKAM and Half Yearly Review with Retailers-Top to Top

- Reporting

Is responsible for reducing Out of Stock on shelf :

- By improving fill rate to retailers/distributors,

- By ensuring that stocks are moved to stores from retailers- DC and distributor on time with improved fill rate

- By getting the ordering corrected through master correction and seasonality consideration

- Is responsible for MT Supply Chain Cost Optimization

- Should monitor Stock on Hand at Retailers- stores, DC and Distributor and guide/help MT Sales Team on management of same

- Will be lead contact person for Modern Trade Supply Chain activities/issues and will coordinate with MT Sales Team, CSOs, RLEs and Retailer Supply Chain and Category Team.

Successful performance requires :

- Rich experience in Supply Chain especially Modern Trade

- Improvement oriented

- Quick Adaptability

- High degree of diligence

- excellent communication skills,

- Service-oriented, collaborative mind-set and

- Capability to meet tight deadlines every day.

Detailed Responsibilities (non-conclusive) :

- To ensure all the opportunities of PO Servicing are captured with maximum fill rate in coordination with Retailers- Distribution & Logistics team

- To ensure that POs are serviced within the stipulated time line to the Retailers- DC

- Master Management: To ensure that retailers SKU Master are kept updated at all times.

- Ensuring proactive resolution of retailers- supply related queries

- Coordinate internally with Customer service officers and logistics executive for smooth and effective operation

- Ensure PO Management through team.

- Retailer wise fill rate improvement plan closure and perusal in coordination with NKAM and Logistics Head

- Ensuring Promo availability as per the plan in coordination with planning and logistics team and highlight in case of discrepancy

- Ensuring internally and communicating the hub wise promo availability to the retailers so that POs are raised in the same configuration

- Ensuring coordination with RLEs on timely dispatches, accounting GRNs, accounting sales returns on time.

- Support MT Finance on timely reconciliation with the required data

- Ensuring right and timely reporting

- Retailers wise fill rate (DKA & IDKA both), reasons for loss and how we are going to improve the same.

- Invoice-GRN-Sales Return tracking

- Inventory Management at Distributor and Retailers level

- S&OP process coordination and compilation

Required Qualification :

Education : post graduate preferably MBA from premier institutes

- 3 - 5 years experience in Modern Trade Supply Chain Management

- From FMCG / Retail industry

- PC Know-how: excellent SAP and MS-Office skills, quick grasp of Order processing-software

- Languages: very good command of spoken and written English.

Organization :

- Modern Trade Servicing Manager will report functionally to SC Planning Head and matrix to Head, Modern Trade

Secrecy :

- The incumbent is strictly obliged to keep any company information as a secret, especially after termination of the labor-relation.

Contacts :

Internal :

- Customer service team

- Logistics Team.

- MT Sales Team

- Commercial Team.

- Planning Team.

External :

- Modern trade business partners-Supply Chain Heads and other parties involved

- 3PL/Warehouse team.

This job description is a general guideline for the scope the position. It can neither cover the total, detailed scope of the job, nor does is it meant to stay unmodified and static for a longer period of time, since the business environment is constantly developing. In this respect the job description is a dynamic framework that cannot be claimed to be conclusive by neither the employee, nor by the employer.