Ice Cream Associate Strategic Planning Manager

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Location: Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Terms & Conditions: Full time 

International Assignment - International assignment is not available for this role and relocation for local and international candidates is not provided

The Ice Cream division at Unilever is preparing to stand on its own, aiming to become an independent, EUR 8.3 billion publicly listed company by the end of 2025. We’re on a mission to create the ultimate snacking company. A place where growth, innovation, founder and ownership mentality, and performance are cultivated and rewarded. And where we craft extraordinary ice cream experiences - transforming ordinary moments into lasting memories. Because we know, life tastes better with ice cream.  

ABOUT THE MAGNUM ICE CREAM COMPANY:

The Magnum Ice Cream Company is all about growth. Growing our business. Growing our customers’ businesses. Growing our people’s careers. Growth begins with empowerment. So we free our people to be innovative, responsible entrepreneurs, driven and equipped to give our consumers more amazing products and unforgettable moments – and having fun doing it.    

With 19.000 expert ice cream colleagues and iconic brands like Wall’s, Cornetto and Ben & Jerry’s, loved in 76 countries, we are the world’s largest Ice Cream company leading the industry.  

We have been taking pleasure seriously for more than 100 years, serving happiness with every lick or scoop of ice cream for generations.   

We are investing to unlock the full growth potential of The Magnum Ice Cream Company as a standalone entity, once we separate from Unilever, which is planned to happen before the end of 2025.   

We dream big but keep things simple to act fast.   

If you want to grow with us, make an impact, and shape the future of Ice Cream, this is the place for you! 

Who You Are & What You’ll Do:
• You’re a storyteller: You can clearly explain to, present to, and strategically influence key stakeholders for new supply chain designs.
• You’re a strategy guru: You not only understand what the sourcing network needs to be today, but more importantly what needs to be done tomorrow. You can balance multiple tradeoffs and priorities within projects to arrive at the best solution.
• You’re a dot connector: You can see the impact of project and process choices on down-stream and up-stream activities in the end-to-end supply chain.
• You love to win and have fun doing it: We make big choices on investments and capital that have impact for years down the road. You must be bold in the recommendations, always working with a win-win mind-set in the face of setbacks.
• You’re a changemaker: Some of the things that work today, will not work in the future. You are often the first tackle change and will need to bring others along the journey.

Key Responsibilities

• Brainstorm, develop, and lead project ideas, including business case analysis, defining capex, and cost savings for project execution.
• Monitor the progress on the achievement of the category KPIs in Gross Margin, service, working capital, supply chain material costs, etc.
• Perform capacity modeling for supply chain network (supply, materials, etc.) using optimization and analytical techniques
• Support complexity reduction in product portfolio and overall network
• Drive portions of the 5S agenda by leading all product logic projects: project delivery, coordination of ideation sessions, and strong stakeholder management.
• Includes reporting out at category leadership forums to senior stakeholders (CCBT) and leading cross-functional brainstorming sessions with the category teams locally and globally.

What You’ll Need to Succeed
Required
• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field
• Project management experience
• 5 or more years combined experience in any of the following areas: Supply Chain planning, Manufacturing, Logistics, Engineering, R&D and/or Operations Research
• Clear demonstration of leadership, team commitment and influencing others without authority
• Cross functional and business process, commercial and financial Acumen
• Communication abilities to all levels of the organization

Preferred
• Innovation management and/or Project Management Professional (PMP) license
• MS Project basic knowledge
• Cross functional business process, commercial, and financial acumen
• Strong presentation and public speaking capabilities
• Strong Excel and data analytics capabilities.

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