S&OE Planner

Job Description

Rituals is growing! We’re expanding into new markets, opening around 200 stores annually, and strengthening our online presence. Think globally – Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. To support this growth, we’re looking for new talent to join our Supply Chain team. Ready to grow with us?

Your motto as a Supply Chain professional: "Supply Chain will never be the bottleneck for growth." With this mindset, we invest in capacity, design scalable processes, and automate wherever possible. Managing complexity with smart, simple solutions keeps us in control while ensuring exceptional customer service – always our top priority. We’re proud winners of the Logistics Award 2023, with an exciting roadmap of projects ahead. And we invest in you! Alongside a dynamic role filled with challenges, you’ll develop your skills in our brand-new Supply Chain Training Academy.

The S&OE team oversees 5 Ecommerce warehouses in Europe and over 1,400 stores worldwide, handling everything from promotions to commercial events and product launches. This specific role focuses on our Retail activities. Every day is an adventure, with your work directly impacting the company’s success. Our main goal: maximize availability and profitability by optimizing the forecast for the 0-3 months horizon. You independently manage daily planning operations for your country package while constantly seeking improvements, exploring new opportunities, and driving projects to elevate our top-tier Supply Chain.

Your key responsibilities:

• KPI-management: Manage, provide, forecast and analyze, on a daily basis, relevant KPI’s & metrics like Availability, Days of Supply, Forecast and Inventory Value versus Store Targets. 

• Forecasting Management: Manage the S&OE forecast for our products and stores within the 0-3 month horizon while by optimising our settings and considering factors like actual sales, variables like leadtime, safety stock
• Stakeholder management: Build and maintain a good relationship with our internal and external stakeholders. External: Have frequent efficient meetings with the Retail Coordinators and managers in our Rituals countries. Set-up the right discussions and address important topics to create an even better future in our way of working together. Internally, you will work closely with  teams like Supply, Demand & Inventory planning, S&OP Planning, Logistics, Retail, Ecom, Wholesale/travel/B2B/Master Franchise, Marketing but also Business Technology!
• Operation Excellence: Our road to succes! Pro-actively search, work on and implement improvement initiatives that contribute to the growth of our Retail and Ecom S&OE planning team and our Supply Chain Department as a whole.

Qualifications

• You have at least 2-3 years of relevant experience in S&OE planning or replenishment planning or a combination of planning and forecasting in a commercial organization;  
• Experience with working in a Retail or FMCG organization; 
• You have a minimum Bachelor educational level, preferably in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business Administration; 
• You are great with Excel and have experience with working with Power BI dashboarding; 
• You have knowledge of ERP and planning software, preferably Logility & Slim4; 
• You have analytical skills and commercial insight.  
• You are assertive, proactive, flexible, accurate and you have a high level of stress resistance 

Additional Information

YOUR PATH TO A NEW CAREER

Grow with us! The next steps are:

1. Apply via our website (make sure you meet the requirements and tell us why you apply)
2. Our recruiter will contact you within 10 working days.
3. A first interview follows in our Central Head Office in Amsterdam. 
4. You do an online assessment.
5. You have the second interview online. 
6. In the event of a positive outcome, you will receive a proposal with the terms of employment.

Any questions? Our recruiter is happy to speak to you via Pieter.deboer@rituals.com. Please note that applications via e-mail are not taken into consideration. 

We kindly ask recruitment agencies to refrain from acquisition efforts. Unsolicited CVs or resumes will not be taken into consideration and will be treated as not received