Manager, Inventory/Planning & Warehousing

Job Description

Manager, Inventory/Planning & Warehousing Buzz is a global design company that creates signature moments for travel. For two decades, we’ve partnered with world-leading airlines, hotels, cruise and rail brands to reimagine travel with innovative product experiences. Our creations become iconic collaborations and keepsakes that span luxury amenity, skincare, textiles and sleepwear, tabletop and serviceware, tech, audio and children’s products. By bringing extraordinary brands together, we create carefully considered partnerships that become meaningful collaborations for all. WHAT IS THE ROLE AND WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR? You will be responsible for leading a small team of Planners who support our Client Service/Sales teams with demand planning and forecasting, and overall be responsible for ensuring stock levels are in line with forecast and consumption. In addition, you will own warehouse set up and relationships, including stock management including stock discrepancies. We are looking for someone with extensive experience managing inventory/planning teams, as well as setting up and managing warehouse relationships. You will be able to demonstrate your experience improving processes and systems relating to warehouse management and inventory planning and management. You will also be a strong manager who takes the time to motivate, empower and take your team on a journey. Your responsibilities will include: Support demand planning and forecasting by gathering forecasts from client service teams. Ensure stock levels are in line with forecast and ratio, including monitoring stock in transit, coordinating stocktake management by warehouse, and managing any stock discrepancies, including negotiation of credits for lost or damaged stock. Proactively identify and implement cost-saving and efficiency activities including accurate input of consumption data, flagging any misalignment between consumption and forecast, managing communication of stock expiring dates, and effectively manage credits with warehouses. In addition, you will be responsible for sourcing and setting up warehouses and managing the high-level relationships, ensuring they meet agreed KPIs. You will be a point of escalation for your team in dealing with any stock discrepancies in the warehouses, and support the team in negotiating credits and solving discrepancy issues. BUZZ CULTURE At Buzz, we pride ourselves on doing things in ways that inspire discovery. Our fast-paced, vibrant culture can be experienced the moment you step foot into our office and realise you are in our Buzz Café, with drinks and endless coffee, along with daily lunch and dinner, for everyone’s enjoyment. Our employees are creative and passionate beings. They push boundaries, thrive out of comfort zones, love a challenge and tackle them head-on. Our collaborative teams deliver amazing results by trusting in one another’s expertise. The way we innovate and add a Buzz twist to everything we do is what we hope will inspire you. We have generous employee benefits too, from rewards to paid parental and birthday leave. We might be biased, but we think Buzz is leading the way as a great employer. Our culture is truly values-driven, which is what we believe makes Buzz a uniquely wild and welcoming place to work. If you are interested in this position, we would love to hear from you! We would love to be able to contact everyone personally; however, this is not possible. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of submitting your application, we thank you for your interest in joining the Buzz team but on this occasion, your application was not shortlisted. Employment Type: Full-time Seniority Level: Mid-Senior level Job Function: Administrative Industries: Personal Care Product Manufacturing #J-18808-Ljbffr