E2E Planning Team manager

The Role

Principle Accountabilities

• Ensures Market Supply Effectiveness – Monitors and mitigates supply risks, ensuring capacity aligns with demand.
• Optimizes Stock Parameters – Oversees stock calculations and updates, challenging forecasts to improve inventory accuracy.
• Drives Performance Analysis & Forecast Accuracy – Identifies opportunities and risks by analyzing market trends and forecast deviations.
• Collaborates on Product Launches & Distribution – Works with materials and production planning teams to track new launches and integrate performance insights.
• Develops Dashboards & Reporting for S&OP – Provides key supply chain metrics such as stock levels, OTIF, and forecast fulfilment rates.
• Leads Continuous Improvement & Team Development – Implements process enhancements, drives efficiency, and may manage a team, ensuring high performance and development.

Skills and Experience Required

• Supply Chain Experience – Experience in supply chain planning (distribution, production, or material), preferably within FMCG.
• Team Leadership – Experience in managing a team, ensuring effective coordination and performance.
• Technical Skills – Proficiency in planning software, SAP, or JDA.
• Project Management – Experience in project management is an advantage.
• Communication & Process Orientation – Excellent communication skills with a process-oriented and team-driven approach.
• Educational Background – Graduate degree in Supply Chain or a related field.

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.

As a matter of policy, Imperial Tobacco or its subsidiaries never requests or requires payment as part of any recruitment process.

Everyone Belongs