Staples International

Staples is committed to making it easy for customers to buy a wide range of office products. With $23 billion in sales, Staples is the world’s largest office products company. Staples services businesses of all sizes and consumers via its stores, websites, mail order catalogues and sales teams in 27 countries throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia and the Pacific, counting 91,000 associates worldwide. Team up with us and you could soon find yourself in a down-to-earth environment with plenty of opportunities to put your talent to work.

For the Supply Chain Team for our Belgian and German Catalogue business, we are looking for a:

Supply Chain Planner

Reporting to the Supply Chain Planning Manager you are responsible for product availability, so as to consistently meet the customer service level targets, while maintaining the inventory levels within budget.

You strive for continuous supply chain improvements.

Your responsibilities:

You assure product availability to support the requested customer service level.

You optimize inventory (A stock, D Stock), set and adjust stock targets and manage inventory levels (Stock turns).

You manage all related processes, information flow and stake holder relations with regards to ordering products, delivery bookings, RTV, substitutions …

You communicate purchasing forecasts to all suppliers on a monthly or more frequent basis depending on specific agreement. You track changes and plan accuracy and strive for improvement of information.

You actively participate and be fully aware of the demand/promo planning process and its results as a key driver to supply and inventory planning decisions.

You give full support to the business on promotion, sales and gross margin activities.

You manage vendor relationship and actively participate in supplier assessment.

You implement the agreed strategic and operating processes.

You develop the supplier base, with the support of the SCPM, through involving the suppliers and Merchandising in a common process, optimizing information flow and identifying and setting common continuous improvement targets.

You actively participate in the new catalogue/promo planning process through managing orders and forecasts at their demand/supply interface (smoothing, deferring, pulling forward etc.)

You interface actively and intensively with DC, CRM, Data Management, …

Who are we looking for?

Your knowledge and experience

·          Master degree or equivalent level achieved through experience.

·          PC literate. Advanced Excel skills. Knowledge of a major ERP system and/or Access is an asset.

·          Excellent English and Dutch, both written and spoken, + basic German knowledge. Or excellent English and French, both written and spoken, + operational German knowledge. Other languages are an asset.

·          Knowledge and/or understanding of Supply Chain is an asset.

Your personal skills

·          Responsible, proactive and assertive

·          Customer service minded

·          Highly numerate and analytical with eye for details

·          Well organised and process oriented

·          Able to operate in a dynamic environment

·          Self driven and result oriented

·          Excellent communication skills

·          Able to work in a multicultural environment

Contact information:

If you want to know more please contact Christelle Rutten, HR Officer, through: christelle.rutten@staples.be or call +32 2 661 94 32