Ice Cream Strategic Planning Associate Manager

The Magnum Ice Cream Company•Englewood Cliffs, NJ

7d•$88,600 - $133,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Magnum Ice Cream Company (TMICC) is a standalone, independent, EUR 7.9 billion publicly listed company, formerly a division of Unilever. We are on a mission to create the ultimate snacking company, cultivating and rewarding growth, innovation, a founder and ownership mentality, and performance. We craft extraordinary ice cream experiences, transforming ordinary moments into lasting memories. This role supports the North America Supply Chain Ice Cream business, located in Englewood Cliffs. The NA Ice Cream Category is $3 Billion in annual sales and growing. This person will develop long-term Supply Chain strategies to create value for the category within the existing and future portfolio, then lead execution on those sourcing changes. This role will lead project management, ideation, and project execution of various project types across this supply chain project. They will also support developing sound business cases to support category growth, savings delivery and service improvement following the IC principles and ensuring the optimal E2E network design. In addition, they will perform rough cut capacity planning, evaluate network constraints, identify improvement opportunities, review capex and technology needs, lead savings identification and implementation, complexity reduction initiatives, and strategic project scoping and execution—all towards driving Gross Margin and profit improvement. This person will closely interact with Brand, Supply/Demand Planning, Factories, Finance, Procurement and R&D to deliver the project targets. They will also lead benchmark study for IC end of end supply chain network.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in a related field
Project management experience
5+ combined experience in any of the following areas: Supply Chain planning, Manufacturing, Logistics, Engineering, R&D and/or Operations Research
Clear demonstration of leadership, team commitment and influencing others without authority
Cross functional and business process, commercial and financial Acumen
Communication abilities to all levels of the organization

Nice To Haves

Innovation management and/or Project Management Professional (PMP) license
MS Project basic knowledge
Cross functional business process, commercial, and financial acumen
Strong presentation and public speaking capabilities
Strong Excel and data analytics capabilities - AI experience

Responsibilities

Brainstorm, develop, and lead project ideas, including business case analysis, defining capex, and cost savings for project execution.
Monitor the progress on the achievement of the category KPIs in Gross Margin, service, working capital, supply chain material costs, etc.
Perform capacity modeling for supply chain network (supply, materials, etc.) using optimization and analytical techniques
Support complexity reduction in product portfolio and overall network
Drive portions of the 5S agenda by leading all product logic projects: project delivery, coordination of ideation sessions, and strong stakeholder management.
Includes reporting out at category leadership forums to senior stakeholders (CCBT) and leading cross-functional brainstorming sessions with the category teams locally and globally.