Manager Group Inventory Management

Manager Group Inventory Management (m/f/d)

• Full-time
• Job Function: Supply Chain: Planning, Logistics, Customer Service
• Entry Level: Professionals

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Döhler is a leading global producer of natural ingredients and solutions for the food, beverage, lifestyle and nutrition industries. We use innovative technology to process plant-based raw materials and enrich products such as lifestyle drinks, cereals, dairy, and confectionery goods for almost every well-known brand. Close to 10.000 dedicated employees in more than 70 countries share one common goal - to ensure that millions of people around the world enjoy the products created by us.

We strive to inspire and empower our employees in everything we do, and we invite you to join our team – together WE BRING IDEAS TO LIFE.

To strengthen our Group Supply Chain Planning organization in Darmstadt, we are looking for a Manager Group Inventory Management (m/f/d).In this role, you will drive the global optimization of inventory across Döhler’s end-to-end supply chain. You will create a transparent, fact-based view of inventory performance and identify, evaluate and mobilize improvement opportunities across operational, tactical and strategic levers.

By balancing inventory, customer service, cost, working capital, quality, supply risk, capacity and resilience, you will help translate analysis into practical initiatives and sustainable impact. The role is not responsible for operational planning or day-to-day replenishment decisions. Instead, you will provide global inventory transparency, improvement methodologies and cross-functional problem-solving support to accountable teams.

You will act as the primary Group contact for inventory-related matters and report directly to the Head of Group Supply Chain Planning. Selected international travel is required.

Your Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain a consolidated view of global inventory performance, including inventory levels, inventory days, inventory turns, service availability, excess and obsolete inventory, aging and other relevant indicators.
• Analyze inventory across material groups, product portfolios, locations, regions, customers and supply chain stages to identify risks, root causes and improvement opportunities.
• Develop and continuously improve the Group inventory KPI framework, reporting logic, analytical standards and performance-review routines.
• Identify, assess and prioritize inventory-optimization opportunities across operational, tactical and strategic levers.
• Evaluate and quantify measures involving planning parameters, service policies, safety stocks, replenishment approaches, lead times, batch sizes, minimum order quantities, production strategies, network flows, sourcing models and product lifecycles.
• Develop scenarios, recommendations, business cases and implementation approaches that make trade-offs between inventory, service, cost, capacity, quality and resilience transparent.
• Initiate and facilitate cross-functional problem solving for material inventory issues, structural drivers and improvement opportunities.
• Translate opportunities into pragmatic initiatives with clear owners, expected impact, milestones, risks and dependencies, while supporting accountable teams without taking over their operational responsibilities.
• Define and improve global inventory-management standards, methodologies, decision principles and governance routines.
• Integrate inventory considerations into relevant planning and decision-making processes, including S&OP / Integrated Business Planning, demand and supply planning, capacity planning, production planning, network allocation and portfolio management.
• Define requirements for inventory-related data, reporting, analytics, master data, planning parameters and system improvements in cooperation with relevant process owners.
• Prepare clear management reports and decision materials, promote best-practice sharing across regions and plants, and escal material risks or unresolved trade-offs through the appropriate governance forums.

• University degree in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, Operations Management, Logistics, Finance or a comparable discipline.
• At least 7 years of professional experience in Supply Chain Management, with a focus on inventory management, supply or demand planning, production planning, S&OP / Integrated Business Planning, logistics or related functions.
• Sound understanding of end-to-end Supply Chain processes and the interdependencies between demand, supply, production, capacity, inventory, distribution, customer service, cost, working cap