End-to-End Supply Planning Manager – AAACE

The Role

We are looking for an experienced End-to-End Supply Planning Manager – AAACE to join our Global Supply Chain Orchestration Centre of Excellence on a 12-18 months fixed-term maternity cover.

This role will act as the governance and consolidation lead for Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Supply across the AAACE region, supporting the 5–36 month planning horizon. You will play a key role in ensuring the regional supply outlook is standardised, decision-ready, and effectively represented in Group Supply reviews.

Working cross-functionally with regional teams, factories, IBH, and global planning stakeholders, you’ll bring visibility to risks, opportunities, capacity constraints, and mitigation options helping ensure the supply chain continues to operate smoothly and effectively.

This is a highly collaborative subject matter expert role with strong exposure across regional and global stakeholders. While the role has no direct reports, you will be accountable for driving alignment, governance, and decision quality across the end-to-end planning process.

Principle Accountabilities

· Consolidate the AAACE supply constraints outlook across a 5–36 month planning horizon, including capacity, material, and network constraints, with clear visibility of risks and opportunities.

· Review and validate IBH supply planning inputs, ensuring consistency, quality, and use of standard templates, definitions, and clear decision asks.

· Support key AAACE projects by providing subject matter expertise and input from an IBP governance and business process ownership perspective.

· Deliver consolidated AAACE supply input into the Group Supply Phase pack, including mitigation recommendations, quantified trade-offs, and escalations where required.

· Maintain strong governance discipline across supply planning topics through decision templates, action tracking, decision logs, and closure follow-up.

· Partner closely with Demand Planning and regional execution teams to ensure demand drivers, supply feasibility, risks, and opportunities are reflected clearly and accurately.

Skills and Experience Required

· Significant experience in supply chain planning, IBP/S&OP, supply planning, or related supply chain orchestration roles.

· Strong understanding of ERP-driven supply planning processes, including demand/supply stream planning and regional planning consolidation.

· Proven ability to assess risks, constraints, and opportunities, with experience building mitigation scenarios and supporting business decision-making.

· Experience working across multiple stakeholders including regional supply teams, factories, and global functions.

· Strong governance mindset with experience managing planning inputs, templates, decision frameworks, and process adherence.

· Excellent communication skills in English, with the ability to influence and challenge constructively across a matrix organisation.

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.  Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

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