A bit about Health & Happiness

At Health & Happiness (H&H), our vision is focused on premium nutrition and lifetime wellness; to inspire and achieve this vision we bring together seven international brands as we strive to make people around the world healthier and happier. We have established market positions in more than 15 countries in Asia-Pacific, Europe, North America and Oceania with more than 3,400 employees working across the globe. We are excited about our future as we expand these premium, proven and aspirational brands to new markets, greeting consumers in all life stages.

What this means for you

The variety of work creates unlimited opportunities to excel across a breadth of disciplines; you will be presented with a wealth of new pathways and opportunities to explore throughout your career. Working with us will be more than just a job; we guarantee a life-changing experience as you step into an environment that moves quickly and presents new challenges daily.

Our success as an organization is directly attributed to the health and happiness of our team. As a new team member, you will be empowered to positively contribute to our high-impact culture and be supported in bringing your whole self to work.

Your role within the team

Reporting into Planning Director, this role in review covered will be responsible for supporting the supply planning process, managing on-time deliveries (purchase orders), as well as ensuring adequate inventory level to support the growth of North America business.  The Assistant Planning Manager will be assisting in the analysis that are required for monthly S&OP Process. You will be closely collaborating with North America / Global team for Sourcing and logistic function, as well as partnering with local Brand functions (Sales Ops, Marketing, Product Development, Finance, Regulatory & Quality team) to ensure products are being on timely manner with optimal inventory level.

Duties and responsibilities

• Drive Monthly Buy Executions base on the result of supply & inventory plans, continuous process improvement and time management. Ensuring execution is smooth and in timely manner, provide support on ad hoc requests.
• Drive Monthly Buy forecast (finished goods) and cascade process with CMs, increase the leverage of Buy forecast for driving material positioning.
• Responsible for monthly/ad hoc material and packaging purchases and deliveries via evaluation of supply plans requirement, liaise with Suppliers with best date of deliveries and material reserves.
• Constantly partnering with team members to thoroughly understanding stock / supply situation and be able to identify gaps between Sales and supply and be able to propose action plans against risks and opportunities.
• Owns analysis and implement considerations into supply planning (finished goods, raw materials, packaging) and ability to explain different iterations of assumption, drive for consensus solution to tackle any supply challenges.
• Ability to analyze current supply constraints and issue against North America’s orders, identify opportunities to drive future improvement to smoothen supply planning and ordering process.
• Building and maintaining strong partnerships with local stake holders (Sales / Demand team, marketing and product development team) to ensure thoroughly understanding the launch and sales plan specific to the North America business.
• Driving alignment across multiple functions (Global / Regional functions) to ensure purchase order can be fulfilled on timely manner across all Brands (Swisse / Biostime)
• Managing North America’s inventory with optimal level, constantly review result of demand changes and actively look into solution to tackle challenges on inventory risks & opportunities
• Partnering with Sourcing team to ensure capacity plans and reserves will be able to supply orders from H&H group.
• Supporting Monthly S&OP Process supported by Planning Director to ensure continuously tracking and executing the decision made from Monthly S&OP Process
• Ability to raise challenges via S&OP Process to ensure accountability of our stakeholder and strive for improvements and delivering result, able to resolve obstacles and getting consensus conclusion with counterparts.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Minimum 5 years of practical experience in Supply Planning, Inventory management
• Pet Food or FMCG industry working experience is preferred
• Strong business acumen with outstanding analytical as well as problem solving skills.
• Well-organized, logical & mature thinking, attention to details, dedicated, energetic and being a self-starter
• Computer literate with excellent knowledge and hands-on experience in Excel, PowerPoint and other MS Office applications. Practical experience in SAP / Oracle / D365
• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Operations, preferred
• Travel requirement: 15-20%

As an equal opportunity employer, H&H Group believes in the benefits of a diverse and inclusive workplace and aims to reflect the varied cultures within which we exist. We are committed to providing a working environment that is free from discrimination and harassment.