Ice Cream Strategic Planning Associate Manager

Location: Englewood Cliffs

Life tastes better with ice cream

With 19.000 expert ice cream colleagues and iconic brands like Wall's, Cornetto and Ben & Jerry's, loved in 76 countries, we are the world's largest Ice Cream company leading the industry.

We create iconic ice cream brands that are part of everyday life, bringing moments of joy to millions of people around the world. Everybody loves ice cream. And as the world's biggest pure‑play ice cream company, we have the scale and ambition to make a real difference.

What truly sets us apart is how we work.

We move fast and keep things simple. We turn ideas into action, trust people to take ownership, and work as one team to win together with integrity. Our culture is high‑performance, collaborative and focused on getting things done.

We're curious and ready for what's next. We embrace digital, use data to make better decisions, and keep learning, including how AI can help us work smarter and serve consumers better.

Location:

Englewood Cliffs, NJ (hybrid)

Terms &

Conditions:

Full time - Hybrid, International sponsorship nor local or international relocation not supported

The Magnum Ice Cream Company (formerly a division of Unilever) is now a standalone, independent, EUR 7.9 billion publicly listed company. We're on a mission to create the ultimate snacking company. A place where growth, innovation, founder and ownership mentality, and performance are cultivated and rewarded. And where we craft extraordinary ice cream experiences - transforming ordinary moments into lasting memories.

Because we know, life tastes better with ice cream.

We dream big but keep things simple to act fast. If you want to grow with us, make an impact, and shape the future of Ice Cream, this is the place for you!

Background & Purpose of the Job

This role supports the North America Supply Chain Ice Cream business, located in Englewood Cliffs. The NA Ice Cream Category is $3 Billion in annual sales and growing! This person is an important player for the category since they will develop the long-term Supply Chain strategies to create value for the category within the existing and future portfolio, then lead execution on those sourcing changes.

This role will lead project management, ideation, and project execution of various project types across this supply chain project. They will also support developing sound business cases to support category growth, savings delivery and service improvement following the IC principles and ensuring the optimal E2E network design. In addition, they will perform rough cut capacity planning, evaluate network constraints, identify improvement opportunities, review capex and technology needs, lead savings identification and implementation, complexity reduction initiatives, and strategic project scoping and execution-all towards driving Gross Margin and profit improvement.

This person will closely interact with Brand, Supply/Demand Planning, Factories, Finance, Procurement and R&D to deliver the project targets. They will also lead benchmark study for IC end of end supply chain network.

Key Responsibilities

* Brainstorm, develop, and lead project ideas, including business case analysis, defining capex, and cost savings for project execution.

* Monitor the progress on the achievement of the category KPIs in Gross Margin, service, working capital, supply chain material costs, etc.

* Perform capacity modeling for supply chain network (supply, materials, etc.) using optimization and analytical techniques

* Support complexity reduction in product portfolio and overall network

* Drive portions of the 5S agenda by leading all product logic projects: project delivery, coordination of ideation sessions, and strong stakeholder management.

* Includes reporting out at category leadership forums to senior stakeholders (CCBT) and leading cross-functional brainstorming sessions with the category teams locally and globally.

What You'll Need to Succeed

Required

* Bachelor's Degree in a related field

* Project management experience

* 5+ combined experience in any of the following areas:
Supply Chain planning, Manufacturing, Logistics, Engineering, R&D and/or Operations Research

* Clear demonstration of…