Manager Supply Chain Planning Food

Within the Supply Chain Planning domain, you ensure availability and manage logistical costs for the Food Unit. You position and lead the stock planners and supply chain coordinators, and ensure a scalable and data-driven way of working. You are the ultimately responsible counterpart for the logistical service providers for Food (including Lekkerland) and monitor their performance, costs, and contractual agreements. You monitor them on agreed service levels, delivery timeliness, availability, and shrinkage, and intervene in the event of structural underperformance. You monitor and optimize logistical costs (including forecasting and cost control) and prepare contract extensions or renegotiations. Additionally, you align frameworks and priorities with Merchandise Planning and, within these frameworks, manage towards optimal stock and availability, and report on this. You analyze recurring disruptions in the logistical chain and initiate structural improvements in working methods and parameter settings. You set the roadmap for improvement projects for Supply Chain Food and manage these with a focus on standardization, automation, and the efficient deployment of your team. As a leader, you coach and develop your team, so that the team performs effectively both individually and collectively.

At HEMA, you work in an environment where people truly collaborate. You are given the space to develop yourself, receive good guidance, and get feedback that is truly useful to you. Whether you are just starting out or already have experience: you are welcome with us. Additionally, at HEMA you receive:

• 💸 A good salary appropriate to your knowledge and experience.
• 🌴 30 vacation days (based on 40 hours) and 8% holiday allowance, so you can recharge in time.
• 🎯 A variable reward of up to 14% of your annual salary - depending on the collective result.
• 💸 A net monthly expense allowance
• 🎄 A fixed year-end bonus of 4% of your annual salary
• 🛍️ 15% staff discount on all your HEMA favorites - from cream puffs to towels and notebooks.
• 🧓 A good pension scheme, so you are well-situated later on as well.
• 🚗 Travel allowance of €0.23 per kilometer (from 10 km one way up to max. 30 km)
• 🎡 Access to the 'benefits at work' platform, with discounts on top brands, day trips, and other extras that make life more enjoyable.

You are a decisive, result-oriented leader who brings sharpness to the chain. You switch quickly and solution-oriented during operational incidents, distinguish between incidental issues and structural bottlenecks, and translate deviations in availability into concrete corrective actions. You keep logistical service providers sharp on results and improvements, and create clarity in priorities and role distribution within your team. You take ownership of the stability and predictability of stock execution and deliveries, and develop your team towards more standardized and data-driven working. Furthermore, you bring:

• Completed HBO (Higher Professional Education) degree, preferably in Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or similar.
• Extensive demonstrable experience in stock management/supply chain planning within retail, preferably in a food environment.
• Experience with managing (indirect) logistical service providers, including contract and cost management.
• Knowledge of stock parameters, service levels, and replenishment systems at unit/chain level, specifically for short-shelf-life/perishable products (Food).
• Experience with cross-functional collaboration at a tactical level (Store Operations, Merchandise Planning, logistical service providers, suppliers).
• Affinity with standardization, automation, and process efficiency within supply chain planning.
• Strong analytical ability: you recognize patterns in stock and availability data and see the structural causes behind disruptions.

At HEMA, we work with over 17,000 colleagues toward a better everyday life in a more beautiful world. With products that are more practical, more beautiful, better, and also last longer. And with colorful stores in villages, cities, and online. We are proud of how far we have come, but we are not yet satisfied. HEMA is truly HEMA again and ready for the next step. Our ambition? To become the leader in a challenging market. We do that together, as one team, with proud colleagues, entrepreneurs, and partners. By playing to win. That means being curious, seizing opportunities, collaborating with pleasure, and always aiming for the best result. You dare to speak your mind and challenge others to become better together. With your unique contribution, you can help build the HEMA of tomorrow. You make HEMA real. Will you join us?