Senior Supply Planner managing end - to - end supply chain including demand, production, and inventory at Knauf Egypt. Collaborating with teams to optimize planning and ensure material availability in Cairo Office.
About the role
- Senior Supply Chain Manager at Mother Root owning and professionalising the upstream supply function. Leading supply planning and procurement for a fast-growing non-alcoholic brand.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end supply planning
- Translate rolling commercial forecasts into robust supply and procurement plans across finished goods, raw materials, and packaging.
- Convert SKU-level demand into ingredient and component procurement plans to ensure continuity of supply.
- Build and manage a disciplined production planning cadence with co-manufacturers, ensuring materials, bookings, and timelines align to deliver OTIF production.
- Maintain clear visibility of stock coverage, inventory exposure, and forward risk.
- Build scalable systems and discipline
- Design and embed robust supply planning processes fit for high-growth scale.
- Maintain end-to-end visibility of stock across the entire supply chain.
- Lead ERP implementation or optimisation, ensuring strong data integrity and clear reporting dashboards for stock, risk, service levels, and cost tracking.
- Own the Operations inputs and outputs within our existing S&OP cadence, ensuring supply plans, stock risks, and production capacity are clearly represented and aligned with Growth and Finance.
- Own supplier and co-manufacturer performance
- Lead commercial relationships with co-manufacturers and key suppliers, negotiating pricing, lead times, MOQs, and service levels.
- Monitor supplier performance, drive accountability, and resolve operational challenges decisively.
- Protect margin and reduce risk
- Own operational inputs into COGS, tracking cost changes, yields, and wastage.
- Lead cost optimisation initiatives and identify supply-side risks early, implementing mitigation strategies (dual sourcing, safety stock, contingency planning).
- Strengthen upstream resilience as we expand across retail and international markets.
- Enable launches and growth
- Partner with Technical and Product on NPD and EPD launches, ensuring new SKUs are fully costed, planned, and supply-secure.
- Work closely with downstream Operations and 3PL partners to ensure seamless transition from production to fulfilment.
Requirements
- Proven experience scaling supply chains within a fast-growth FMCG or challenger brand environment.
- Strong background in procurement, supply planning, or production management.
- Demonstrable experience building and managing rolling supply plans across multiple SKUs.
- Experience translating demand forecasts into raw material and component procurement plans.
- Advanced Excel capability, comfortable building, stress-testing, and refining complex planning models.
- Experience implementing or significantly improving ERP or supply planning systems.
- Strong commercial acumen with hands-on experience negotiating suppliers and managing COGS.
- A disciplined, forward-looking mindset with exceptional attention to detail.
- The ability to operate both strategically and in the detail.
- Clear communication skills and confidence partnering cross-functionally with Finance, Growth, Technical, and Operations.
Benefits
- Share Options Programme: Equivalent to 15% of salary from day one
- Annual Leave: 25 days per year
- Summer Hours: Early finish Fridays (June–August)
- Work From Anywhere: Up to 2 weeks per year
- Pension: 5% matched contribution
- Cycle Scheme: Bike or Lime/Forest Pass
- Personal Development: £300 annual allowance for approved training
- Wellbeing Support: Access to Spill app & Heka allowance (£40/month) + birthday/work anniversary boosts
- Free access to Fora gym and classes.
- Annual Team Trip: Gastronomical & wellbeing-focused team away trip
- Parental Leave: Competitive maternity/paternity package
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