Global Warehouse Manager

BAT is evolving at pace into a global multi-category business. Our purpose is to create A Better Tomorrow™ by Building a Smokeless World. To achieve our ambition, we are looking for colleagues who are ready to join us on this journey! Tomorrow can’t wait, let’s shape it together!

BAT UK IS LOOKING FOR A GLOBAL WAREHOUSE MANAGER

Job type: Permanent

Function: Operations

Salary range: Competitive salary package + excellent benefits + market leading bonus

Location: Southampton, United Kingdom

What are the key objectives and expectations from this role?

• This role is a part of Global Customer Fulfilment Extended Leadership Team acting as Warehouse Product Owner in the Customer Fulfilment Centre of Excellence (CF COE).
• Lead Connecting Warehouse Initiative Globally, promoting Lighthouse and accelerate reapplication of CBAs, providing the required process capabilities & standards, sharing benchmarks/toolkits and supporting the DRBUs to foster re-application with the strive to deliver world class service and optimise cost and cash and ensure compliance to regulations and guidelines.
• Develop topics like Multi-market Analytics for Warehouse including operational and commercial aspects to support negotiations, develop a Resilience Metric, map Emerging Technologies, promote innovation through #be supplier, drive Compliance, Warehouse Academy

Strategic and Operational Scope:
Primary Warehouse spend in BAT is about £200mn, this role will demonstrate our process, our capabilities, and operational standards to “drive high performance and resilience through our talent and digital technologies”.

Budget Management: ~£90mn Total Spend influence ~£205mn.

Reports to:

Global Head of Transport and Warehousing CF CoE

Number of Direct Reports: 1

Core Relationships:
Internal – SNO functions / COEs, Regional Operations Directors (ROMs), Ops Directors, Local and DRBU Supply Chain Managers, Finance, DBS, Procurement. External – External service providers, Technology Suppliers, Research Parties & Specialist consultants (i.e. Gartner), peer companies.

Geographic Scope:
Global

Travel Required:

Yes

• Govern the Groups Primary Supply Warehouse spend and savings delivery, including annual TGT setting to achieve optimized COGs
• Accountable for the Global Warehouse Product strategic deployment next 1-3 Years, including processes, capability, global technology enablement selection
• Provide leadership for Warehousing crafting and maintaining a strong partner network with local and DRBU Supply Chain managers & lead the indirect community within the geography.
• Develop and maintain Warehousing capabilities, toolkits, DMS, & digital platforms ensuring they are applied, relevant and drive Improvement Plans to ensure a “Fit for Growth” Supply Chain build cross category.
• Own and deliver change projects to improve the efficiency and / or effectiveness of BAT logistics operations.
• Maintain excellent links with other functions to align and integrate the business & improvement requirements; specifically working with the Regional Operations Manages, Operations Directors, Local Supply Chain Managers, SNO Planning hubs to ensure that Customer Fulfilment supports & delivers against the Regional / Local business requirements
• Ensure the Customer fulfilment operations linked to Warehousing are accurately coordinated into the end-to-end supply chain towards the BAT Ultimate Control Tower direction driving Dynamic Fulfilment node in UCT.
• Support ESG solutions, together with the SC Dev teams and Sustainability Product within fulfilment space to reduce CO2 emissions, increase waste recycling and support circular economy.
• Demonstrate our Warehouse Platform globally, with Multi-market Analytics, Intelligence, Resilience, Compliance, Learning and Emerging Technologies in Warehouse.

ESSENTIAL

Experience Required

• In-depth knowledge of Warehouse rigor including crucial experience in a Local Supply Chain execution role.
• Knowledge of Core Supply Chain processes, from Planning (Demand & Supply), Logistics, Manufacturing & NPI.
• Strong proven experience and knowledge within Logistics.
• Knowledge and exposure to IWS.
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