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About the Role
This role exists to close the gap between Tate & Lyle’s evolved packed production footprint and its distribution model, addressing rising logistics costs and suboptimal stock positioning. The Supply Chain Network Design Manager will own the end-to-end network design for Tate & Lyle Sugars packed products, building analytical foundations and translating network decisions into operational reality.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end supply chain network design for packed products, defining packing locations, stock holding, and shipping points.
- Maintain a quarterly network design roadmap aligned with supply chain strategy.
- Manage inter-site product flows, ensuring replenishment and transfers align with the supply plan and demand profile.
- Determine optimal flex packing plans when production issues arise and ensure revised plans are reflected in SAP.
- Define ship-from locations for new customers and tenders.
- Determine where new SKUs (NPD) will be packed and distributed from ahead of launch.
- Model seasonal and promotional demand flex to ensure the network can absorb volume peaks without disproportionate cost.
- Support cross-functional and pan-ASR projects requiring network design input.
- Build and own the cost-to-serve model to quantify the true cost of serving each channel, customer segment, and SKU.
- Build and maintain a network cost dashboard providing weekly budget vs actuals visibility of logistics and replenishment spend.
- Identify where customer ordering behaviour drives unnecessary supply chain cost and collaborate on solutions.
- Embed sustainability and carbon considerations into network analysis, quantifying ESG impact.
- Support Exec S&OP with a regular network performance view, flagging structural issues and presenting options.
- Define and maintain stocking policies, including safety stock levels and inventory positioning by site and SKU.
- Ensure inter-site replenishment flows are optimised.
- Run structured network scenario analysis, producing business cases and recommendations for leadership.
- Build and maintain a network simulation capability for rapid scenario testing.
- Lead or co-lead supply chain improvement projects arising from network analysis.
- Support logistics and commercial teams in tenders by providing network insight and ship-from recommendations.
- Ensure systems, data, and reporting capabilities support network design outputs and decision-making.
- Continuously benchmark network performance against industry best practice.
Requirements
- Proven experience (typically 5+ years) in supply chain network design, network optimisation, or a senior supply chain analytical role in a manufacturing or FMCG environment.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain operations: manufacturing, planning, logistics, distribution, and customer fulfilment.
- Demonstrable experience building cost-to-serve models and translating outputs into commercial and operational decisions.
- Experience of inventory and stocking policy design — safety stocks, positioning logic, replenishment parameters — and translating these into operational planning system inputs (e.g. SAP).
- Familiarity with S&OP processes and governance — how to prepare and frame recommendations for an executive decision forum.
- Experience with supply chain planning or network modelling tools (e.g. SAP, o9, Llamasoft/AIMMS, advanced Excel).
- Power BI or equivalent data visualisation experience desirable.
- Degree educated or equivalent professional experience, ideally in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Operations Research or Business.
- APICS (CSCP/CPIM) or CIPS qualification desirable.
Skills
- Cost-to-serve modelling
- Network performance dashboards
- Scenario analysis
- SAP
- IBP
- Power BI
- Network modelling tools
- Excel
Location
- London: E16 2EW
Work Type
- Hybrid (3 days on-site)
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Degree educated or equivalent professional experience
- APICS (CSCP/CPIM) qualification desirable
- CIPS qualification desirable
About the Company
- The ASR Group® family of companies make up the world’s largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar.
- The companies produce a full line of grocery, industrial, foodservice and specialty sweetener products.
- Across North America, ASR Group® companies operate five sugar refineries, located in California, Maryland, Louisiana, Canada and Mexico.
- In Europe, ASR Group® companies operate sugar refineries in the United Kingdom, Portugal, and, with a joint venture partner, Italy.
- The companies also farm sugarcane and own sugar mills in Mexico and Belize.
- The ASR Group® portfolio includes the leading brands Domino®, C&H®, Florida Crystals®, Redpath®, Tate & Lyle®, Lyle's®, Sidul® and Whitworth®.
- ASR Group® companies also produce and market Tellus®, a single-use, compostable tableware and foodservice product made from plant fibers, including sugarcane.
- At Tate & Lyle Sugars, our goal is to be the most admired sweetener Company.
- Service Excellence - Be the industry's Gold Standard by a relentless focus on reliability, providing products with superior quality and excellent customer services.
- Efficiency and Sustainability - Eliminate inefficiency to be a sustainable, low cost producer and to generate fuel for reinvestment.
- Value-Add - create strategic advantage and enhanced profitability through value-added products and services.
- The foundation of our values is Talent and Culture as we aim to build, retain and motivate a winning team.