S&OE Retail Planner

With Supply Chain you are at the core of our operations. Simplicity and innovation come together to shape the future of our brand through smart solutions.

Share your talents

Rituals is growing. We are steadily expanding in new territories, opening new stores and growing our online presence. Think globally (USA, Asia, Middle East) and think around 200 stores per year. And our ambitions are growing as well. To ensure we can keep up with the growth, we are looking to add new talent to our Supply Chain to support and join in our growth ambitions!

As a Supply Chain professional, you can relate to our motto: "Supply Chain will never be the bottleneck for growth." Embracing this motto, we are investing in capacity, building scalable processes, and automating wherever possible. To manage the complexity that comes with growth, we strive for simple and elegant solutions to stay in control, while maintaining excellent customer service as the cornerstone of our work. We are proud to be the winner of the Logistics Award 2023 and have an extensive roadmap of projects ahead.

And we invest in your personal development.  Besides an exciting job with challenging opportunities to increase your experience and knowledge, you will also develop your skills in our brand new Supply Chain Training academy.

Your team and your job

Do you see yourself working in a dynamic, vibrant and fast growing environment? Would you describe yourself as creative, always in it to win it, commercial and eager to be the best in class? Then you just might be what our Rituals Sales and Operations Execution Team is looking for! One of your most important goals is to maximize store availability and profitability by optimizing our Retail Store Forecast within the 0-3 month horizon. You manage the daily planning operations of your country package independent, while while continuously seeking for improvements, new opportunities and projects that support our top level Supply Chain. The S&OE team manages more than 1200 stores world wide, the execution from A-Z on all promotions, commercial moments and introductions on a yearly base. A daily adventure with a direct impact on the company’s success. Your key responsibilities are:

• KPI-management: Manage, provide, forecast and analyze, on a daily basis, relevant KPI’s & metrics like Availability, Days of Supply, Forecast and Inventory Value versus Store Targets.
• Forecasting Management: Manage the S&OE forecast for our products and stores within the 0-3 month horizon while by optimising our settings and considering factors like actual sales, variables like leadtime, safety stock
• Stakeholder management: Build and maintain a good relationship with our internal and external stakeholders. External: Have frequent efficient meetings with the Retail Coordinators and managers in our Rituals countries. Set-up the right discussions and address important topics to create an even better future in our way of working together. Internally, you will work closely with teams like Supply, Demand & Inventory planning, S&OP Planning, Logistics, Retail, Ecom, Wholesale/travel/B2B/Master Franchise, Marketing but also Business Technology!
• Operation Excellence: Our road to succes! Pro-actively search, work on and implement improvement initiatives that contribute to the growth of our Retail and Ecom S&OE planning team and our Supply Chain Departmemt as a whole

Bring all of you

• You have at least 2 years of relevant experience in S&OE planning or replenishment planning or a combination of planning and forecasting in a commercial organization;
• Experience with working in a Retail or FMCG organization;
• You have a minimum Bachelor educational level, preferably in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business Administration;
• You are great with Excel and have experience with working with Power BI dashboarding;
• You have knowledge of ERP and planning software, preferably Logility & Slim4;
• You have analytical skills and commercial insight.
• You are assertive, proactive, flexible, accurate and you have a high level of stress resistance

YOUR PATH TO A NEW CAREER

Grow with us! The next steps are:

1. Apply via our website (make sure you meet the requirements and tell us why you apply)
2. Our recruiter will contact you within 10 working days.
3. A first interview follows.
4. You do an online assessment.
5. You have the second interview at our Central Head Office in Amsterdam.
6. In the event of a positive outcome, you will receive a proposal with the terms of employment.

Any questions? Our recruiter is happy to speak to you via pieter.deboer@rituals.com. Please note that applications via e-mail are not taken into consideration.

Benefits of working at Rituals

• Training, coaching & development opportunities
• Staff discount on Rituals products
• Attractive bonus
• Numerous health & wellbeing initiatives
• Company & team events