Kit Planning Manager

What you will do:

• Providing leadership and management to kit planning team.
• Coach, develop and hire new talent within the team.
• Responsible for the overall team motivation, setting objectives, performance review and development for the organization in their region.
• Develop and implement the appropriate kit sourcing and build strategy and inventory strategy. 
• Single go to person for related divisions at EU level for kit and consignment inquiries.
• Budget accountability for European kit Investment and Inventory, including managing of the free stock for kit build in Venlo.
• Provide direct input, advice, and guidance to the European sales Divisions in relation to the best options for sourcing the Kits and Assets being requested by the divisions.
• Lead initiatives to shorten time to market for new kit deployment.
• Lead initiatives together with divisions on a European level balance inventory across the region to optimize service and cost.
• Lead and initiate discussion and present recommendations for asset and inventory optimization to divisional leadership teams.
• Working closely with divisions on forecast, kit planning and inventory balancing.
• Balance EU assets, analyse STC fleet holistically for Europe and own the European STC fleet in Venlo. 
• Take leadership on creating new metrics to drive inventory and cost optimizations, for example STC VS LTC strategy in the countries.
• Manage Slow moving kits and balance local VS central.
• Owning the process from Forecast for new kits, inventory planning (for kits), netting and purchasing. 
• Provide guidance and advisory to the Divisions for the most cost-effective decisions on CERs.
• Focus on making procedural changes and new or more effective ways to accomplish tasks, achieving team goals, or performing team functions, standardized across Europe.
• Play an active role in the European Operations team as we strive to implement a world class asset and inventory management strategy. Critical to this will be the identification of appropriate benchmarks and the sharing of best practice.
• Take full ownership or participate in projects to further improve European asset and inventory management capabilities resulting in increasing customer satisfaction, increasing efficiency, lower costs and optimized inventory levels.
• Build, liaise and maintain relationships and collaborates with colleagues across functions (Operations, Finance, etc.), divisions (Sales, Marketing) and leadership.
• Provide evidence and reporting of budget spent to the divisions.
• Provide feedback and detailed ROI reports to decision makers.
• Ensure Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) related to assets and inventory are monitored and achieved.
• Tracking and analysis of STC and Demo fleet (turns, returns, etc.).

What You Need:​