Planning Excellence Leader

LION; Auckland; Presencial; NZD 140.000 - 210.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Lion New Zealand is seeking a Planning Excellence Leader to drive improvements in planning and supply across NZ. Based in Auckland at Pride Brewery, the role focuses on simplifying processes, challenging the status quo and leveraging data, technology and AI to shape future planning.

You will lead priorities for NZ Planning & Supply, collaborate with teams in New Zealand and Australia, and partner with SAP/IBP implementations to improve product availability and planning maturity.

Formación

• Experience in supply planning or broader supply chain role.
• Track record of improving processes and delivering practical outcomes.
• Ability to use data, KPIs and risk insights to guide decisions and identify opportunities.
• Strong stakeholder skills and coordinating work across teams.
• Curious, self-motivated approach, with the confidence to challenge existing ways of working.
• Experience with IBP and planning systems; SAP experience would be useful.

Responsabilidades

• Set priorities and help shape the strategy for NZ Planning & Supply, aligned with Lion’s wider supply chain objectives.
• Lead improvement initiatives to strengthen product availability, DIFOT, planning performance and value creation.
• Coordinate technical improvements to IBP, aligning activities with NZ and Australia teams.
• Lead key supply chain projects and identify opportunities to improve planning.
• Use reporting, data and KPIs to provide insights and support better decisions.

Conocimientos

Supply planning

Data analytics

Stakeholder mgmt

IBP

SAP experience

AI exploration

Educación

Bachelor's degree in supply chain or related field

Herramientas

IBP

SAP

Excel

Descripción del empleo

Due to a recent exciting internal promotion, we are now looking for our next Planning Excellence Leader for Lion New Zealand.

This is a hands-on improvement role for someone who enjoys questioning the status quo, simplifying processes and finding better ways to plan. You’ll help shape the future direction of Planning & Supply in New Zealand, strengthen our planning maturity and bring a curious, practical lens to how we use data, technology and AI.

Based in Auckland/Pride Brewery, you’ll work across domestic, international, co-pack and intercompany supply, partnering with teams in New Zealand and Australia.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Set priorities and help shape the strategy for NZ Planning & Supply, aligned with Lion’s wider supply chain objectives.
• Lead improvement initiatives that strengthen product availability, DIFOT, planning performance and value creation.
• Coordinate technical improvements to IBP, working with teams in New Zealand and Australia to align activities and ways of working.
• Lead key supply chain projects, including the Broadband project, and identify further opportunities to improve how we plan.
• Use reporting, data and KPIs to provide clear insights and support better supply chain decisions.
• Improve the governance, data quality and adoption of planning processes and systems, including SAP and IBP.
• Explore how AI and other emerging tools could support better planning and more effective ways of working.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience in supply planning or a broader supply chain role, ideally in FMCG.
• A track record of improving processes and delivering practical outcomes.
• The ability to use data, KPIs and risk insights to guide decisions and identify opportunities.
• Strong stakeholder skills and confidence coordinating work across teams.
• A curious, self-motivated approach, with the confidence to challenge existing ways of working and bring people along.
• Experience with IBP and planning systems. SAP experience would be useful, but we’re open to people who have worked with other systems.

A relevant degree in supply chain, logistics or a related field would be advantageous.

Why join us?

You’ll have the opportunity to make a visible difference to planning across Lion NZ, helping improve today’s processes while shaping what planning could look like in the future. If you’re motivated by continuous improvement and interested in the role data and AI can play in supply chain, we’d love to hear from you.

We’re a certified B Corp, which means we care about people, planet and purpose—not just profit. We’re committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, and we celebrate the unique perspectives that help us grow and innovate. We intentionally embrace difference and cultivate belonging every day, whether through our investment in our Reconciliation journey through our Innovate RAP, our commitment to gender pay equity or providing progressive people policies.

If you need specific support or accessibility adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know at [e-mail] so we can make sure that your recruitment process is fair and we enable you to shine. This includes tailored support for First Nations people, individuals with disabilities, those who are neurodivergent, and people who identify as transgender or gender diverse as we understand the unique challenges and concerns you may face.