FMCG supply chain and operations recruitment.
The people who make sure the product is there when the shopper is. MAVI recruits planning, supply chain and operations talent for consumer brands, from a first Demand Planner to an Operations Director.
A forecast is a commercial decision written as a number.
Demand planning
Baseline and promotional forecasting, working with national account managers who are optimistic by profession.
Supply planning
Turning the demand plan into production and purchase orders, in your own factory or through co-manufacturers.
S&OP
People who can run the monthly cycle and get sales, finance and operations to agree one number.
Manufacturing
Site and production leadership, and the co-man relationship managers that asset light brands rely on.
Logistics
Warehousing, transport and 3PL management, including the retailer delivery requirements that carry fines when missed.
Customer operations
Customer supply chain and service roles that sit between your planners and the retailer's depots.
Inventory
Stock control, shelf life management and write-off reduction, which matters a great deal in chilled and short life.
Operations leadership
Heads of Supply Chain and Operations Directors who can build the function as volume grows.
From first planner to the board.
- Demand Planner
- Supply Planner
- S&OP Manager
- Customer Supply Chain Manager
- Supply Chain Manager
- Operations Manager
- Head of Supply Chain
- Operations Director
People who are comfortable with the data and willing to challenge a sales forecast in the meeting. The two do not always come together.
Context matters as much as skill. Someone from a business with its own factories and a mature planning system may find a brand run on spreadsheets and three co-manufacturers frustrating, or may be exactly the person to fix it. Sagar asks which they are. Ambient, chilled and frozen each bring their own pressures too, and experience in one does not always transfer.
Hiring into supply chain or operations?
Or thinking about your own next move. Either way, start with a conversation.