Commercial Process Leader with IBP – Integrated Business Planning Know-how
About Laminex Australia
We’ve been a part of the iconic Australian design landscape for over 85 years. Only a few short years after Australian’s became happy little Vegemite’s, families were spreading their toast in kitchens and on tables made by us. We’ve come a long way.
Today, you’ll see Laminex on surfaces everywhere you look – be it hospitals, shopping centres, restaurants or your home, our team spend their day making products so that all Australians can create beautiful and practical spaces.
Opportunity:
We have a significant strategic and commercial opportunity which will lead Laminex on an enterprise wide continuous improvement journey to optimise our approach to Best in Class standards of Integrated Business Planning. Leading and Steering this whole of business process, the Commercial IBP Process Lead will drive the key business leaders across the core functions through a newly established monthly cadence to ensure delivery of the business strategy with a 24-month horizon.
This newly created role, reporting to the National Commercial Manager, and supporting the Executive Leadership Team, will be responsible for leading and aligning the core processes of Product, Demand, Supply and Financial Reconciliation ensuring that we deliver on our Strategy for growth and Product Leadership.
Key responsibilities:
- To provide the Senior Leadership team with recommendations to align our product portfolio, demand, supply and financial requirements and deliver on strategic objectives.
- Collaborating with Marketing, Finance, Global Technology and Operations to make sound recommendations to develop the IBP process and optimise both customer availability and operating costs for the business.
- Ensure action registers are in place to address the challenges and improvements raised in weekly and monthly meetings.
- Support the development of process leaders through effective coaching in order to support the execution of the improvement plans.
- Administer a rolling, 12-month schedule and ensure that each cycle is set up to deliver on the required financial and production outcomes.
- Ongoing robust challenge and assessment of the product category structure and pipeline reviewed at the Management Business Review
- Market focused insights and assessments of business vulnerabilities and opportunities, guiding and supporting decisions on gap closing initiatives.
Key Requirements:
- Integrated Business Planning experience with at least 10 Years’ exposed to sales, supply chain or project management field
- Tertiary qualifications in Business, Supply Chain, Manufacturing or Logistics
- Experience based knowledge in end to end business processes, including Portfolio Management, Marketing, Financial Planning, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Fulfillment
- Exposure or education in Oliver Wight Sales & Operations Planning and Integrated Business Planning model (strongly desired)
- Strong communication and coaching skills
- Proven ability to understand key concepts and communicate with business stakeholders
- Strong analytical, data processing, problem solving and organisational skills
- Proficiency in process formulation, process improvement and project management.
- Demonstrated proficiency in statistics, forecasting and forecasting methods with an understanding of their financial and operational impacts
- Ability to overcome ambiguity
- Experience developing and implementing change initiatives requiring collaboration and influence management skills