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Senior Consultant Supply Chain Planning in FMCG

  • Experience: Experienced
  • Contract: Permanent contract
  • Location: Aalst or Mechelen, Belgium

About the role

  • You take responsibility for a functional workstream in global transformation projects, with a focus on FMCG projects where possible, and keep track of deliverables and milestones of the workstream.

  • You leverage your unique expertise and your deep understanding of the FMCG business complexities to provide consultancy support truly tailored to the needs of the customer, ensuring a lasting, successful planning transformation.

  • You prepare & host client workshops in order to detect the client’s needs and the challenges that are tied to their planning and broader supply chain.

  • You manage to gather all necessary information, while looking at the big picture, ensuring all stakeholders are involved and aligned.

  • You contribute to strategic supply chain-wide transformation that drives growth, reduces costs and sparks innovation.

  • You co-create and design the playbook together with the client, creating documents for the new way of working both on process and on organizational level.

  • You provide guidance during the implementation process ensuring it happens in a smooth and structured manner.

  • You contribute to the implementation alongside the client in making the transformation real.

  • You’re responsible for the follow-up of your workstream in the project in order to ensure client satisfaction.

  • You are open to travel.

  • You assume a coaching role and guide your customer towards their goals.

  • You guide change and help carry out improvements.

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About you

  • You have built extensive relevant planning experience in one or more FMCG companies, providing you with a thorough understanding of the planning challenges and supply chain complexities in the demand and supply planning of fast-moving consumer goods.

  • You have valuable insights and experience in the largely event-driven and dynamic nature of the low-margin FMCG business, requiring top-class, highly efficient S&OP and other processes and technology-enabled automated solutions. These insights make you a trusted advisor in highly complex planning transformations.

  • You hold a master’s degree in engineering or economics. An MBA is a plus.

  • You have at least 4-8 years of experience in supply chain & operations, from which at least 2 years in consulting or in project management.

  • You have experience with planning activities.

  • You’re a team player. Your team’s goal is to deliver transformation, drive growth, reduce costs and spark innovation.

  • You get a kick out of delivering strategic insights to people and help them grow within their company.

  • You feel connected with and are ready to represent our company values: dig deep, own it, come together move fast and be kind!

  • You show a willingness to travel globally and to work in a hybrid working model.

  • You have a valid driver’s license or will obtain this in the next 6 months.

Why join us?

  • You become part of a highly motivated team of hands-on supply chain professionals that attaches great importance to the above-mentioned values in their day-to-day activities.

  • A flexible & hybrid work environment, combining remote work, office presence and onsite client visits.

  • Room for initiative, room to enhance your personal and professional skills, but most importantly: room to be yourself.

  • Enjoy benefits such as a competitive salary including a bonus and an electric company car with convenient charging options.

About us

At Bluecrux, we transform supply chains into smart, efficient value chains through a blend of expert consulting and cutting-edge technology. We collaborate closely with industry leaders like Johnson & Johnson, GSK, Bridgestone, AkzoNobel, Beiersdorf, Oatly, and many more – creating partnerships that drive meaningful impact. With a global presence in Europe, the US and APAC, we’re committed to shaping the future of value chains, one success story at a time.

Within the plan squad, we have built up specific expertise in three main areas: Life sciences/pharma, CPG&CH and Chemicals&Industries. In these industries, we support a range of global leaders in their E2E planning transformation journey such as Bayer, Johnson&Johnson, BASF and Bridgestone.

During these E2E supply chain planning transformations, our experts support our customers in every step of their journey. We partner up to define a vision and review the operating model to create a strong and agile basis for the future.

The PLAN squad designs & implements our customers’ business transformation by defining the future organizational operating model, designing new ways of working & solutions advanced planning systems (APS), feeding their data factory, accelerating their setup towards agile S&OP or guiding them through their end-to-end supply chain planning. We do not work for them but rather with them, and we stand by their side the entire time. That is the only way to make changes stick and flourish.

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