Kit Planning Manager

Work Flexibility: Hybrid **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:**​ * University degree, or equivalent relevant experience. * Fluent in both spoken and written English. * IT-knowledge (E.g. Microsoft Office with skills in Excel, PowerBi, Oracle). * Preferred: Lean (green) belt. * Preferred: Project management certification. * +8 Years of experience within Supply Chain Planning or Asset Management. * At least 2 years people management experience. * Experience from creating a strategy for an organizational in an international environment and translating the strategy into a pro-active execution plan.  * Experience with continuous improvement and change management.  * Drive SOP alignment and standardization. * Influence skills to work with senior leaders and drive agenda and strategy.  * Relationship building experience across divisions. * Can demonstrate a high level of problem-solving skills, especially complex problems.  **Desirable:**  * Experience in international environment  * Experience creating reports using data modelling software Travel Percentage: 10%