A versatile role with a lot of interesting aspects and the chance to develop yourself and the company.
Let’s color the world!
We are GNT, an ambitious and innovative family-run business with a colorful character! With our EXBERRY® brand, we are the market leader in the field of Coloring Foods. Our colorings are 100% natural and are made from fruits, vegetables, and plants. We are world champions when it comes to utilizing the bounty of nature and strive to continuously innovate and improve natural color ingredients for the consumer. By carefully preserving all of nature’s beauty and goodness, we are able to offer our clients the highest quality and most reliable products. This is what continues to motivate us every day! The most important ingredients for GNT’s success are our employees and the cooperation that exists between them. We believe in teamwork, and we are there for one another, our clients, our suppliers, and our partners. That is what makes us GNT.
Due to the growth of the GNT Group we are seeking a fulltime:
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGER (GLOBAL)
Supply chain managers are crucial to the global economy and their organizations. They represent a unique discipline responsible for supporting a global network that produces and delivers products from raw materials to end customers, which ultimately impacts a company’s bottom line. Working among many departments, supply chain managers engage in the design, planning, execution, control and supervision of supply chain activities with the objectives of creating value, building a competitive infrastructure, leveraging worldwide logistics, synchronizing supply with demand and measuring performance globally.
The position:
Are you an experienced, knowledgeable senior supply chain professional with a passion for the food industry? Our innovative family company is seeking a driven, result- and people oriented Global Supply Chain Manager with a broad interest and demonstrable management experience, excelling in Planning, Logistics, Procurement and also in Customer Service. It will be your responsibility to lead and manage the global supply chain department in all aspects to ensure a professional, efficient and well-performing team. The department acts as the spin in the web and connects all stakeholders to secure the best service to our customers. You manage to carefully balance this with our capabilities in operations throughout the world. You will further develop and strengthen the supply chain processes which are to be aligned with customer needs. This will be done and driven by you through the implementation and adaption of IBP and S&OP-cycle throughout the organization. You will actively contribute to not only the development of new strategies for planning, logistics, warehousing and procurement but also to the execution of these plans and implementation of change in the organization. Furthermore, it will be your task to lead the customer service team and to help ensure collaborative solutions are developed to further address customer needs. The added twist to this role and GNT is that we manage the entire value chain and thus also manage the agri-supply chain downstream in collaboration with ‘our’ farmers. We work purely with natural ingredients which means that this can also create challenges in our overall process where the Supply Chain manager has to play an important role.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the following teams: Operations Office, Sales & Customer Service, Procurement en Logistics.
- Develop and implement global supply chain strategies for procurement, warehousing, logistics & S&OP. Where you need to define the long term strategy for these departments in line with the company strategy.
- Build a strong and efficient organization, coach team members where needed to get the best out of them and the team.
- Optimize planning, logistics, and procurement processes true operational excellence and implementation of IBP and the S&OP process throughout the organization to ensure continuous improvement of supply chain performance.
- Build strong relationships with sales, marketing, product management and finance to optimize the end-to-end value chain.
- Optimize the global supply chain performance by balancing the triangle of cost, service and cash.
- Sense and respond to global supply chain developments and manage mitigation of disruptions, leveraging support of an international team.
- Inventory management & optimization of the inventory globally.
- You will report to your COO.
General Skills:
- Minimum 8 years of experience in supply chain management, preferably in the food industry (food ingredients industry).
- Proven track record in optimizing end-to-end supply chain processes.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in supply chain management, logistics, or a related field.
- Fluent in Dutch and English and preferably German.
Leadership Skills:
- A socially safe working environment should be second nature within GNT.
- Ability to coach, motivate and inspire your team to work as one and help them to excellate in what they do.
- Team Management.
- Strategic Agility: Translate vision and strategy into understandable goals, priorities, and challenges. Create plans that are structured and achievable, yet flexible.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to translate the insights into clear directions.
- Drive Innovation: Generate new or unique solutions and embrace new ideas that help sustain and grow our business with our customers encompassing continuous improvement.
- Collaborate: Establish and maintain elective relationships with a wide range of internal and external partners throughout the world; able to gain their trust and respect.
- Great sense of responsibility. Deliver results, creating value for our customers and key stakeholders.
- Interpersonal Savvy: Respect diverse perspectives. Recognize divergent cultures, languages, and beliefs in arriving at an optimum solution.
- Strong written and verbal communication. You have to be Able to handle/manage intercultural communication & cultures throughout the world.
Technical Skills:
- Business systems such as ERP and MRP.
- IBP and S&OP.
- Operational and financial metrics.
- Inventory management.
- Master scheduling.
- Supplier capabilities.
- Logistics and distribution.
- Analytics reports.
What do we offer you?
- A varied function in a modern working environment.
- A nice bonus scheme.
- 26 vacation days (possibility to purchase extra days).
- A very favorable pension scheme.
- Unlimited access to online training courses, so you can continue to work on your personal development.
- We think sustainability is very important. That is why – as part of our employment conditions – we compensate your CO2 footprint.
- Affordable sports at a selected gym.
- A wonderful workplace at a successful and innovative company: GNT is in movement, and you will be too.
Make your future colourful!
Are you ready to take on this challenge? Send your CV, motivation, earliest possible start date and salary indication to [email protected]. You will then hear as soon as possible whether you have been selected for an introductory interview. An assessment is part of this procedure. Naturally, we will treat your personal data with care. All applications are treated equally and substantively.