Category Manager – Logistics – 12-Month MAT Cover

Job Description

Job title: Category Manager – Logistics – 12-Month MAT Cover

Company: Charlotte Tilbury

Job description: Job Description:

Founded by British makeup artist, Charlotte Tilbury MBE, in 2013, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty revolutionised the face of the global beauty industry by de-coding makeup application for every person, at any age, with an easy-to-use, easy-to-choose, easy-to-gift range. Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty, continues to break records across countries, channels, and categories.

The Role:

We are looking for a dynamic individual who has sufficient years procurement experience to meet the role requirements, working within a fast-paced environment, ideally from within the Cosmetic or Personal Care industry, with a large global focus on e-commerce support.

The individual will have global remit for sourcing and cost reduction within the logistics category. Key areas within the category are 3PL tender processes across global regions, Ongoing value add cost reductions within 3PL contracts, Final Mile couriers, Inbound and Outbound freight commercial support at a global level. Developing freight monthly/quarterly sourcing strategy.

Project managing regular supplier cost initiative meetings with both internal and external stakeholders will form a core part of the role.

Taking a lead role in working with regional stakeholders to develop a global category plan and project roadmap.

Overall, as a Procurement Logistics Manager, your role is to strategise, implement, and optimize the logistics and freight procurement processes, ensuring the smooth flow of goods and materials while maximizing operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities:

• Third-Party Logistics (3PL) Management: You will be responsible for managing relationships with third-party logistics providers. This includes negotiating contracts and service level agreements, monitoring performance metrics, and ensuring that logistics operations are running smoothly and efficiently.
• Freight Sourcing: Your role involves identifying, evaluating, and selecting reliable freight and transportation providers. You will be responsible for negotiating competitive freight rates, analyzing transportation costs, and managing any related contracts or agreements.
• Strategic Planning: You will play a vital role in developing procurement strategies and policies that optimize logistics and freight operations. This will involve analyzing market trends, identifying cost-saving opportunities, and implementing strategies to improve supply chain efficiency and reduce lead times. Responsibility for development and delivery of the Logistics category sourcing strategy, working with regional leads to deliver a global plan in agreement with the Procurement Director
• Supplier Relationship Management: Building and maintaining strong relationships with freight and logistics suppliers is crucial. Your role includes conducting supplier evaluations, performance reviews, and resolving any issues or disputes that may arise.
• Cost Management: As a Procurement Logistics Manager, you will be responsible for analysing transportation and logistics costs . This involves monitoring expenditures, identifying cost-saving opportunities, and implementing strategies to optimize spending. Developing and owning, in agreement with the Procurement Director aggressive Cost Initiative reduction targets on a 12-month rolling annual basis. New supplier sourcing and tendering programmes with development and monitoring of full 12-month sourcing pipeline. Forecasting, monitoring, and reporting on all assigned cost initiatives monthly, including ownership within the Cost Initiative pipeline tracker.
• Risk Management: You will need to assess and mitigate risks associated with logistics and freight operations. This includes evaluating potential disruptions, developing contingency plans, and ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and industry standards.
• Data Analysis: Analyzing key performance indicators (KPIs) and data related to logistics and freight operations is essential. This will help you identify areas for improvement, track overall performance, and make data-driven decisions to optimize procurement processes.
• Spend Mapping: of all associated spend data to support sourcing strategy, including ‘deep dive’ analysis of spend within 3PL’s, working within 3PL’s on a ‘joint supply chain plan’
• Collaboration: Effective collaboration with cross-functional teams, such as Supply Chain, Operations, and Finance, is crucial to ensure alignment and support for procurement logistics strategies and initiatives. Work with PUIG teams to identify and implement Logistics Category synergies where appropriate.

Requirements:

COMPETENCY MUST HAVES:

• Learning Curve – Capability to quickly take on board and disseminate new data/info around operational business needs and quickly develop into a sourcing plan of action.
• Attention to Detail – Able to work at an extremely fast pace, without making unchecked errors across a wide range of cost initiative projects at the same time.
• Conflicting Priorities – Ability to commit to and deliver against deadlines agreed, where there will be multiple priorities to consider and manage
• Project Management Guru – Must be conversant with both sourcing tenders/RFP processes as well as VAVE project management with suppliers. Strong management of both external and internal stakeholders to deliver a project on time, with significant associated savings.
• Commercial acumen – Role holder must have strong negotiation skills with clear demonstrable consistent cost saving achievements both from tendering and negotiation, as well as project managing value engineering cost initiatives.
• Autonomy – Must be able to take responsibility for own resource time, prioritising ‘biggest bang for your buck’ and ownership of delivery, with minimal direct support.

EXPERIENCE EXPECTATIONS:

• Thorough knowledge of 3PL, Freight & final mile Courier market, supplier capabilities and competitor activity.
• Previous procurement experience within Cosmetic or Personal care business.
• Previous experience supporting all subcategories within Logistics.
• Must have developed and implemented Indirect category strategy reviews
• Strong data analysis capability to support category strategy development.
• Sound legal contract knowledge and experience.
• Must be comfortable working with ambiguous and/or incomplete information to achieve a significant cost benefit result.
• Demonstrated use and implementation of ‘source to contract’ e-sourcing tools a distinct advantage.

Charlotte Tilbury is a fast-paced and dynamic environment where nimble mindsets, striving to deliver the best and wanting to be part of a #dreamteam are key. Even though we have requirements our experience and background are just a guide, we still love to welcome applicants with more or less experience stated, provided necessary skills can be demonstrated. Even if you don’t tick all the boxes – Apply anyway!

Benefits:

• Generous staff discount
• Generous product gifting
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Hybrid & flexible working
• Dog friendly office on Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays.
• Access to Tilbury Treats – discounts on everything from gym memberships to cinema tickets.
• Other fabulous benefits such as life assurance, birthdays off work and pension contribution.

At Charlotte Tilbury, our mission is to empower everybody in the world to be the most beautiful version of themselves. We support this by encouraging and hiring people with diverse backgrounds, voices, beliefs, and perspectives into our growing global workforce. By doing so, we better serve our communities, customers, employees – and the candidates that take part in our recruitment process.

WE WOULD LOVE TO WELCOME YOU TO OUR DREAM TEAM…APPLY TODAY!

Expected salary:

Location: London

Job date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 04:44:17 GMT

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