At a Glance
- Tasks: Drive service improvements and collaborate with teams to enhance customer experience.
- Company: Join Sysco, a leading foodservice business with a dynamic team culture.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, generous holiday allowance, pension scheme, and exclusive discounts.
- Other info: Enjoy hybrid working and excellent career progression opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in supply chain management while developing your career.
- Qualifications: Experience in supply chain or account management, strong analytical skills, and proficiency in MS Office.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
Sysco has an opportunity for a Supply Chain Service Manager to join the Product Supply team on a full time, permanent basis. The role is based at our Ashford office and reports to the Service Team Manager. It will be your responsibility to drive end to end service improvements for our large customer base. This will involve working cross functionally with our planning teams, sales colleagues, external customers and operational departments to understand the key issues, recommend robust solutions and deliver improvement plans.
Our role is Monday to Friday, 39 hours per week, 8am-5pm and is offering hybrid working, with a minimum of 2 days a week in the Ashford office, so you must be within a commutable distance. The site has good transport links and free car park for colleagues. Occasional travel will be required for internal and external meetings.
Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:- Pro-actively analyse data to understand key service issue trends across the relevant business sector.
- Provide monthly performance reviews for relevant sales channels highlighting key issues in performance and recommend resolutions.
- Perform deep dives to identify root cause of issues and work collaboratively with relevant sales colleagues, customers and relevant operational colleagues to provide long term, robust solutions.
- Propose end to end business solutions to deliver optimum service for all sales channels at both depot and/or customer levels.
- Lead/attend service calls and coordinate service improvement plans and communicate progress to relevant key stakeholders.
- Manage the generation, analysis and distribution of customer service reporting (Daily / Weekly / Monthly) in line with contractual requirements.
- Working collaboratively with sales to agree contractual customer service levels to ensure commitments are adhered to, through service improvements and relevant reporting.
- Build strong communication links with customers, planning teams, sales and operations and establish sustainable but challenging working relationships.
- Build strong communication links with the external customer and work with the sales managers to develop joint business plans where appropriate.
- Build strong relationships with Sales in order to understand their concerns and issues, but also to challenge where they can improve/are not delivering their part of the SLA.
- Represent supply chain function at internal and external customer service meetings.
It is desirable that the successful candidate have proven experience in supply chain looking to take the next step in their career or someone who is commercially astute from an Account Management background. The ideal candidate will have a good understanding of continuous improvement methodologies. You will be proficient in the use of MS Office, in particular Excel and have an analytical mindset and the ability to create and manipulate data types for accurate reporting using SAP, Power BI or Tableau. Previous experience with internal and external stakeholder management at various levels in a professional capacity combined with strong negotiation and influencing skills are ideal skills to becoming successful in this position. This role is suitable for a positive, self-starter looking to drive change and continuous improvement with a high level of resilience who can think logically outside the box to problem solve.
What you'll receive:- A competitive salary
- Generous holiday allowance, with option to purchase 5 additional holiday days
- Pension scheme
- Huge discounts on all sorts of lovely food and award-winning products through our staff shop
- Discounts on cinema tickets, shopping and earn cashback on purchases through Sodexo.
- Recognition awards and incentives
- Career progression opportunities - being part of Sysco, the world's leading foodservice business, opens up a world of possibility.
Supply Chain Service Manager employer: Sysco
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