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About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we're the world's leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you'll test new insights, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to develop a career worth celebrating.

About the Function:

Our Finance team deliver balanced growth for our business, customers, and much-loved brands. We're part of a $12.2 billion gross profit organisation, responsible for driving an outstanding level of performance and crafting the potential for future growth.

Whether we're utilising our digital capabilities and analytics to advise our business strategy or crafting capacity to invest in the future - no two days are the same in our Finance team. Wherever your skills lie, we'll help you to learn and develop, supporting you along the way in our inclusive culture.

About the team:

The MPS & DRP Manager leads the Tequila Planning organization to deliver integrated Service, Inventory and Cash outcomes across the end-to-end supply chain.

This role translates business ambition into a principled and scalable planning operating system. It sets direction, drives execution and sustains performance through strong governance, technical rigor, financial acumen and people leadership.

As the overall owner of MPS and DRP, the role ensures synchronization between production, dry components, liquids, market/customer requirements and broader business priorities.

The position reports to the Category Supply Chain Operations Leader and owns the end-to-end MPS & DRP Planning organization for the category. Through the MPS Lead and the DRP Lead, the role drives alignment, capability growth and focused execution across both production planning and deployment.

About the role:

• Global Planning and Logistics agenda across short-term execution and long-term planning, including Loss Analysis, Performance Ambition, 3-Year Plan, Portfolio Simplification, Agility Agenda and Planning Maturity Assessment.
• Oversight of the global Tequila production and distribution network.
• Accountability for Finished Goods inventory across the category and hubs, including Production Capacity governance and Safety Stock policy ownership.
• Direct impact on Working Capital, Service important metrics and execution stability.
• Critical interface between Manufacturing, Logistics, Commercial and Finance.

Role Responsibilities:

Accountable for integrated MPS + DRP outcomes across:

• Service (OTIF % / CFR %)
• Inventory health & SLOBs,
• Working Capital & Cash

Lead structured trade-off discussions balancing growth, risk and efficiency.

Ensure planning decisions are financially sound and passionate about business goals.

Set, Implement and Sustain the Planning Operating System

• Define and govern cadence, decision rights, customer concern paths and planning standards.
• Lead S&OE execution for production and distribution.
• Ensure clarity of assumptions, stability zones and scenario governance.
• Reduce reactive environment by strengthening discipline, transparency and accountability.

MPS Excellence

• Safety Stock Policy Owner for finished goods
• Ensure capacity visibility and constraint management across liquids, dry components and bottling.
• Drive plan stability, adherence and frozen zone rigor.
• Integrate scenario planning and structured risk management into decision-making.
• Protect manufacturing efficiency (OEE %, changeovers, agility)

DRP Excellence

• Shipment Forecasting Process Owner for the category.
• Define replenishment strategy and inventory segmentation logic.
• Optimize the distribution plan across markets aligned to service and cash priorities.
• Govern allocation logic during constrained supply situations.
• Improve inventory health and eliminate structural inefficiencies.

Experience / skills required:

• 8-12+ years in Supply Chain with strong exposure to MPS, DRP and IBP.
• Proven leadership of managers and cross-functional teams.
• Strong financial skill (inventory valuation, working capital, financial statements).
• Experience operating in sophisticated, high-growth environments.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority.
• Strong systems capability (OMP, SAP or equivalent).
• Executive communication and decision-framing skills.
• Strong customer and consumer understanding, with the ability to translate market demand dynamics and service expectations into production and deployment decisions.
• Experience collaborating with Commercial and Customer teams to align replenishment, service levels and network strategies with consumer-centric growth objectives

We offer stellar benefits!!

Diversity statement:

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, attitudes, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

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