Focus Brands Atlanta , GA 30301
Posted 2 weeks ago
Build strong working relationships, trust, and credibility with key stakeholders within the Brand (including Franchisees) and Focus Brands to understand priorities and influence outcomes.
Lead a supply chain management lifecycle for all promotions, new offerings, supply changes, and similar projects.
Promote product supply security directly and via planning resources to ensure successful day to day restaurant operations
Partner with the Brands Marketing & Operations teams, Corporate Communications, and Distributors to provide regular Supply Chain updates to Franchisees.
Provide a high level of accessibility to quickly react to unexpected challenges.
Understand end to end Supply Chain strategies (Distribution, Procurement, Quality and Supplier Safety, Inventory, Systems, Costs and Communication) and represent these strategies to others.
Understand and support both Brand and Focus wide business models, strategies, and priorities.
Help inform and execute strategic priorities and initiatives for Focus Supply Chain.
Indirectly lead a 3rd party core planner that will focus on managing critical items for the brand.
Participate, as needed, in Franchisee Advisory Council meetings for your brand.
The Supply Chain Brand Manager serves as the lead Supply Chain liaison for their brand. This dynamic role is the lead communicator of supply chain information to brand leadership, franchisees, and other supply chain team members. This role is a key stakeholder in brand decision making and will sit on the brand's leadership team. This individual will be exposed to a broad set of brand and cross functional management and will engage in supply chain problem solving opportunities while providing critical input into decisions as the supply chain expert for the brand leadership team. The role flexes between tactical, urgent problem solving, and more strategic long term capability improvement.
Focus Brands consists of 7 restaurant and specialty brands with independent leadership, marketing, R&D and operations teams, serviced by a centralized procurement, analytics, distribution/logistics and quality assurance capabilities. The Supply Chain Brand manager is the link between these two organizations acting as the expert on both their Brand as well as the centralized supply chain services.
This specific opportunity will support the Cinnabon brand and team.
Fixed Hybrid-Atlanta
Required Education
Bachelor's degree
Preferred Education
Bachelor's degree concentration in Supply Chain or Business Administration
Graduate Degree
Required Experience
5 years professional work experience
Demonstrated history/experience in:
Building relationships
Communicating effectively to stakeholders in different parts of the organization
Managing projects with broad stakeholder groups
Working effectively in high pressure situations
Experience in supply chain planning, forecasting, and execution management
Preferred Experience
Foodservice Experience at a Brand, Distributor or Supplier
Manufacturing, Freight Management or Supply/Demand Planning Experience
Proficient in meeting facilitation, written and presentation skills
Proficient in Microsoft Excel and Power Point (pivot tables, lookup, effective presentation creation)
May be required to travel up to 25% of the time
Project Management Certification (preferred)
Focus Brands