Mid-Level, Senior
BLUE YONDER PLANNING SME
The Role
At Imperial Tobacco, we're transforming the future of planning through innovation, digitalisation, and global collaboration. As part of our Global Supply Chain (GSC) Centre in Warsaw, we're looking for a Blue Yonder Planning SME to play a pivotal role in one of our most ambitious global transformation programmes.
In this role, you will be the key Global Planning representative driving the delivery of our Integrated Factory Deployment Plan, ensuring planning standards, requirements, and best practices are consistently deployed across factories, markets, and implementation waves worldwide. Working at the intersection of business and technology, you'll collaborate closely with Blue Yonder and SAP S/4HANA implementation teams, influencing critical design decisions and helping shape a future-ready planning ecosystem that enables smarter, more connected ways of working across our global operations.
Principle Accountabilities
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Represent Global Planning within the ISC/Unify programme, ensuring planning requirements, impacts, risks, and decisions are fully reflected in programme design and execution
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Define and validate planning business requirements, working with BPOs and SMEs to ensure process, data, KPI, reporting, and integration needs are clear, complete, and traceable from design through deployment
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Drive planning solution governance and decision-making, including review and sign-off of key design decisions, assessment of business impacts, and management of exceptions to the global template
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Ensure end-to-end integration of planning processes and systems, including Blue Yonder, SAP S/4HANA, master data, interfaces, controls, reporting, and deployment readiness
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Hold programme teams accountable for planning deliverables, tracking progress, managing risks and issues, removing blockers, and escalating where required to protect outcomes and timelines
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Lead planning deployment readiness and continuous improvement, ensuring training, data readiness, cutover support, adoption monitoring, and incorporation of lessons learned into future deployments
Skills and Experience Required
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Degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business or related field
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Experience in Supply Chain network/inventory optimisation or Supply Chain planning analytics
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Practical experience in using systems/technologies such as: SAP, Blue Yonder
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Experience in implementation (business requests gathering, testing, user training, configuration) of the mentioned systems would be a benefit
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Strong English communication skills
What We Offer
In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.
Everyone Belongs
Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.
About Us
We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all. Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.
As a matter of policy, Imperial Tobacco or its subsidiaries never requests or requires payment as part of any recruitment process.
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