Supply Chain Manager - Little Dish

Supply Chain Manager - Little Dish | Notting Hill, London (Hybrid)

We're hiring on behalf of our client, Little Dish - and this one is genuinely exciting.

At IMPACT EVOLVE, we're proud to be working with Little Dish on a number of exciting supply chain initiatives — from shaping their future tech and planning capability to building out the brilliant team that will deliver it. This Supply Chain Manager role is a key part of that story, and it's not one to be missed.

Little Dish is the brand making tasty, healthy meals that parents trust and kids actually eat. They're growing fast across chilled, frozen, grocery, ROI and beyond, with serious momentum behind new channels, new products and a smarter supply chain backbone to support it all. There's a lot going on - and even more coming.

Based at Little Dish's Notting Hill HQ and reporting to the Head of Supply Chain, you'll be right at the heart of how their food gets from manufacturer to retailer to family kitchen table. It's hands-on, fast-paced, high-impact, and genuinely matters.

Responsible for the day-to-day running of the supply chain

• Working closely with the commercial team to coordinate demand forecast and production planning between retailers and our manufacturing partners.
• Daily stockholding management and effective mitigation of any waste risks.
• Daily order placement with manufacturing partners.
• Analysis, investigation and resolution of all distribution and availability issues.
• Day-to-day relationship management of manufacturers and third-party logistics service providers to ensure continual supply of products to all customers.
• Navigation of any capacity or operational challenges within the supply base, to ensure best-in-class service to all of our customers.

Supporting business development

• Identifying opportunities for improved efficiency within our supply chain.
• Continuously looking for opportunities to improve ways of working with our manufacturing partners and logistics providers.
• Supporting internal departments through value-adding analysis and reporting.
• Supporting the Head of Supply Chain in developing sustainable supply chain solutions for new channels and products.
• Leading execution stages of gated development process for NPD and EPD projects to enable best-in-class launches.

Experience and Profile

• c.4-5 years’ experience in Supply Chain with retail FMCG or manufacturing environment
• Experience with chilled, short shelf-life products is highly desirable
• Experience of UK grocery retailer systems, portals, EDI
• Comfortable working in a small company environment – hands-on, flexible, loves working as part of a team and on own initiative
• Analytical mindset
• Excellent Excel and data manipulation skills
• Strong level of attention to detail / Rigour
• Proactive, self-starter
• Continuous Improvement Mindset
• Commercially focused
• Sense of urgency
• Good time management
• Aligned to the Little Dish Mission and Values

Our Little Dish values

Our values are at the heart of everything we do, and we hire people who demonstrate how they will deliver on them:

• Healthy – making the healthiest, tastiest food for kids and improving children’s nutrition
• Family – cherishing family and helping Mums make life that little bit easier
• Authentic – from the meals we create to the promises we deliver, what you see is what you get
• Commercial – bringing a commercial mindset to everything we do, delivering growth and building value
• Pioneering – changing the children’s food industry for the better, taking risks and trying new things

Benefits

25 days of annual leave, plus Bank Holidays

Bonus: linked to achievement of budget & performance against individual objectives

Pension

Private Healthcare & Dental

Life Assurance

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