Kit Planning Manager

What you will do:

• Providing leadership and management to kit planning team.
• Coach, develop and hire new talent within the team.
• Responsible for the overall team motivation, setting objectives, performance review and development for the organization in their region.
• Develop and implement the appropriate kit sourcing and build strategy and inventory strategy.
• Single go to person for related divisions at EU level for kit and consignment inquiries.
• Budget accountability for European kit Investment and Inventory, including managing of the free stock for kit build in Venlo.
• Provide direct input, advice, and guidance to the European sales Divisions in relation to the best options for sourcing the Kits and Assets being requested by the divisions.
• Lead initiatives to shorten time to market for new kit deployment.
• Lead initiatives together with divisions on a European level balance inventory across the region to optimize service and cost.
• Lead and initiate discussion and present recommendations for asset and inventory optimization to divisional leadership teams.
• Working closely with divisions on forecast, kit planning and inventory balancing.
• Balance EU assets, analyse STC fleet holistically for Europe and own the European STC fleet in Venlo.
• Take leadership on creating new metrics to drive inventory and cost optimizations, for example STC VS LTC strategy in the countries.
• Manage Slow moving kits and balance local VS central.
• Owning the process from Forecast for new kits, inventory planning (for kits), netting and purchasing.
• Provide guidance and advisory to the Divisions for the most cost-effective decisions on CERs.
• Focus on making procedural changes and new or more effective ways to accomplish tasks, achieving team goals, or performing team functions, standardized across Europe.
• Play an active role in the European Operations team as we strive to implement a world class asset and inventory management strategy. Critical to this will be the identification of appropriate benchmarks and the sharing of best practice.
• Take full ownership or participate in projects to further improve European asset and inventory management capabilities resulting in increasing customer satisfaction, increasing efficiency, lower costs and optimized inventory levels.
• Build, liaise and maintain relationships and collaborates with colleagues across functions (Operations, Finance, etc.), divisions (Sales, Marketing) and leadership.
• Provide evidence and reporting of budget spent to the divisions.
• Provide feedback and detailed ROI reports to decision makers.
• Ensure Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) related to assets and inventory are monitored and achieved.
• Tracking and analysis of STC and Demo fleet (turns, returns, etc.).

• University degree, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Fluent in both spoken and written English.
• IT-knowledge (E.g. Microsoft Office with skills in Excel, Power Bi, Oracle).
• Preferred:
  Lean (green) belt.
• Preferred:
  Project management certification.
• +8 Years of experience within Supply Chain Planning or Asset Management.
• At least 2 years people management experience.
• Experience from creating a strategy for an organizational in a n international environment and translating the strategy into a pro-active execution plan.
• Experience with continuous improvement and change management.
• Drive SOP alignment and standardization.
• Influence skills to work with senior leaders and drive agenda and strategy.
• Relationship building experience across divisions.
• Can demonstrate a high level of problem-solving skills, especially complex problems.

• Experience in international environment
• Experience creating reports using data modelling software