Supply Planner

at  LOreal

For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted its energy, innovation, and scientific excellence solely to one business: Beauty. Our goal is to offer each and every person around the world the best of beauty in terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity and responsibility to satisfy all beauty needs and desires in their infinite diversity.

• Line manages and co-ordinate key operational tasks within the supply planning team
• Anticipate potential issues by comparing demand with supply in the short and medium term.
• Communicate actively with International S&OP team and factories to prevent out of stock risks from occurring and to recover from supply issues as soon as possible
• Communicate to the business any risk of out of stock and ensure all relevant parties have timely and accurate availability information
• Manage stock levels in accordance with the objectives of the country and analyse obsoletes and slow movers. Define and implement action plans.
• Work alongside key business partners to manage through the supply of large customer demands in the most effective way
• Adjust the supply parameters in order to optimize stocks and costs throughout the supply chain
• Root cause analysis of shortages with recommendation of appropriate action to ensure we learn from every issue
• Prepare and publish appropriate reports to monitor supply chain performance
• Suggest and implement improvements to our supply planning practices
• Project Service Level and Inventory risks weekly in order to pre-empt possible issues in the short and medium term
• Work closely with our Distribution Centre team to optimise catalogue size and reduce need for external storag