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Job Description
About GMG:
GMG is a global well-being company retailing, distributing and manufacturing a portfolio of leading international and home-grown brands across sport, food and health sectors. Its vision is to inspire people to win in ways that make the world better. Today, GMG’s investments span across four key verticals: GMG Sports, GMG Food, GMG Health, and GMG Consumer Goods. Under the ownership and management of the Baker family, it has become a leading global company, affiliated with the world’s most successful and respected brands in the well-being sector. Working across the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia, GMG has introduced more than 120 brands into its markets.
About the Role:
Provides overall direction to logistics planning team to optimize stock inventory
levels and meet customer service objectives. Oversee the supply chain function
to ensure business plans are met and profitability is improved.
Responsibilities:
Supply Planning
Execute planning activities for significant/large number of manufacturing/
distribution units in a complex supply chain, including other processes/units/
suppliers, and contribute strongly to the development of the overall supply chain
planning framework and system.
Supplier Management
Monitor, review, and highlight any gaps in the performance of a portfolio of major
suppliers to recommend and ensure delivery of improvements by suppliers or to
renegotiate or change contract/supplier.
Contract Management
Manage the delivery of a major part of the organization’s contract management
program while taking personal responsibility for a limited number of mission critical
contracts.
Operations Management
Manage a significant operational area for the organization.
Sourcing
Collect and analyze the key cost drivers, market dynamics and issues, areas ofinnovation, and alternative suppliers for business-critical risk area(s) with fewalternatives/high costs of changing, in consultation with relevant functions to
provide solid market information for decision making.
Functional Strategy Formation
Lead the development and implementation of strategy for an important area of
responsibility within a function, anticipating complex issues, challenges, and
opportunities, and ensuring integration with wider functional strategy.
Leadership and Direction
Communicate the actions needed to implement the function’s strategy and
business plan within the team explain the relationship to the broader
organization’s mission, vision and values motivate people to commit to these
and to doing extraordinary things to achieve local business goals.
Budgeting
Develop and/or deliver budget plans with guidance from senior colleagues.
Continuous Improvement
Review existing operations in a major area of work and implement innovation
processes to generate new ideas and ensure the required continuous
improvement outcomes are delivered.
Performance Management
Manage and report on the performance of a substantial, diverse team set
appropriate performance objectives for direct reports or project / account team
members and hold them accountable for achieving these take appropriate
corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of team / personal
objectives.
Stakeholder Engagement
Develop stakeholder engagement through identifying stakeholders, finding out
their needs/issues/concerns and reacting to these to support the communication
of business information and decisions.
Organizational Capability Building
Use the organization’s formal development framework to identify the team’s
individual development needs. Plan and implement actions, including continuing
professional development specified by professional or regulatory institutions, to
build their professional capabilities. Provide informal training or coaching to
others throughout the organization in own area of expertise to enable others to
improve performance and fulfill personal potential.
Experience:
General Experience
Substantial general work experience together with comprehensive job related
experience in own area of expertise to fully competent level. (Over 6 years to 10
years)
Managerial Experience
Experience of planning and managing resources to deliver predetermined
objectives as specified by more senior managers (Over 3 years to 6 years)
