Tag: Melbourne

Key Account Manager – Commercial Plumbing (16370)

Posted on by fletcherbuildingaustralia in Sales
Tradelink

Tradelink – A member of the Fletcher Building group is Australia’s trusted name in plumbing supplies. With more than 200 branches and 150 years in the industry, Tradelink are a market leader providing plumbing solutions to professional plumbers, builders, gas fitters, tradespersons, home renovators and more. 


The role


We currently have an exciting opportunity available for a Key Account Manager to join our team based in Port Melbourne. Your primary responsibility will be the management of a large portfolio of high profile, high value key commercial accounts. This role is critical to the business performance and will be directly responsible for maintaining strategic relationships with our key accounts, ideally with the view to maximise gross profit and revenue margins across the portfolio. 


This is a unique and exciting opportunity for a sales professional who isn’t afraid of a challenge to work closely with our senior leaders to drive our business into the future.  The successful applicant will also work closely with our sales, operations and estimating teams to ensure the delivery on critical contracts with our customers. 


About you


You will demonstrate significant experience as a Key Account Manager within the plumbing industry, ideally with a commercial focus to your experience. Critical to your success will be your ability to cultivate long term strategic partnerships along with your well-developed influencing and negotiation skills. Relevant tertiary qualification in business or finance will be looked on favourably. You will be a strong communicator who can balance sales with customer service to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction and revenue growth.

The team are operating a temporary 9-day fortnight, where you are given the opportunity to shape your working week around what suits you. So, if you enjoy flexibility and are a looking for a business that can support you this could be a great opportunity. 

 All internal employees, please remember to advise your current line manager of your interest in applying for this vacancy


If this sounds like an opportunity you are interested in, please send through your cover letter and resume to: cara.mclennan@fbu.com 


Applications close Tuesday 30 June 2020

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Product Planner (16249)

Posted on by fletcherbuildingaustralia in Supply Chain / Procurement

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 fell in love with Vegemite, 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. We manufacture and procure a broad range of products for commercial and residential use such as laminate, engineered stone and veneers so that all Australians can live in beautiful, practical spaces. 

About the Role
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a self-motivated individual to join our team as a Product Planner.  This role is primarily responsible for production process flow, producing cutting lists to send to the shop floor in order to service customer requirements. You will ensure proper scheduling, recordkeeping and inventory control in order to track all product information and to keep supply chain on schedule.

As Product Planner you will

  • Monitor and replenish stock levels to ensure inventory targets are met for customer demand
  • Manage manufacturing capacity and monitor site workload, taking appropriate action including rescheduling orders and advising of overtime etc. as required
  • Process manufacturing orders including releasing orders 
  • Collaborate regularly with various internal stakeholders including customer service, production, sales and purchasing teams to ensure exceptional customer service levels are maintained

Hours of work are 8.00am to 5.00pm, Monday to Friday and can be based out of either Melbourne or Brisbane.


The Person
To be successful in this role you will have:

  • Experience in a similar production planning role with previous exposure to building products industry
  • A good understanding of sales manufacturing planning processes
  • Solid understanding of product manufacturing lead times, manufacturing cycles, factory working hours and capacity, and any manufacturing limitations
  • Experience in GAINS, AWS, BPCS, Datawarehouse and MS Excel
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong computer skills

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we strive to create an inclusive environment for all our employees. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply to any of our vacant positions. 

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Commercial Process Leader (16172)

Posted on by fletcherbuildingaustralia in Finance

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

Apply Now!