Requirements: English
Company: Thai Union Group PCL.
Region: Issy-les-Moulineaux , le-de-France
As Supply Chain Excellence Lead , you will play a critical role in shaping the strategic direction of our supply chain operations, driving cross-functional collaboration, and leading initiatives to optimize end-to-end performance. Youll champion the advancement of our Sales Operations Planning (SOP) process while ensuring supply chain excellence and transformation aligned with Thai Unions strategic goals.
This role will report to Ambient Global SOP Lead and could be based in Paris or Utrecht.
Your Responsibilities:
- Shape and execute long-term supply chain transformation roadmaps that drive improvements in flexibility, responsiveness, resilience, and cost efficiency, aligned with Thai Unions strategic priorities.
- Lead cross-functional collaboration across SOP, Procurement, Finance, Commercial, and Plant Operations to embed best practices in supply chain planning, logistics, warehousing, and inventory management.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives, using data-driven insights to optimize end-to-end supply chain performance, identify efficiencies, and deliver measurable business impact.
- Develop and codify planning standards, methodologies, and tools across the SOP process, building capability and fostering a culture of high-performance planning and operational excellence.
- Analyze internal KPIs and external market trends to proactively identify risks and opportunities, providing actionable recommendations to senior stakeholders.
- Oversee the implementation and adoption of digital planning tools and supply chain management systems to support scalable, sustainable growth.
- Support the establishment of performance metrics and targets across supply chain operations, ensuring regular performance tracking, reporting, and course-correction where needed.
- Act as a change agent for supply chain innovation, championing initiatives that support Thai Unions SeaChange® sustainability goals and responsible sourcing commitments.
Why Choose Us?
- Our Values: At Thai Union, our values of passion, humility, respect, responsibility, collaboration, and innovation guide how we work and how we grow together.
- Collaborative Environment: You'll work closely with cross-functional teams globally from SOP and Finance to Procurement and Commercial in an environment that values teamwork, insight, and continuous learning.
- Meaningful Impact: In this role, youll see your work directly impact supply chain performance, business resilience, and operational excellence on a global scale.
- Driving Transformation: You will be at the forefront of strategic supply chain transformation projects, helping us innovate, optimize, and future-proof operations for lasting business success.
About You:
- Experienced in supply chain, operations, or finance, ideally within FMCG or food industries.
- Strong leadership skills with a proven ability to drive cross-functional collaboration and global initiatives.
- Expertise in SOP, supply chain planning systems, and operational excellence methodologies.
- Analytical and commercially-minded, with strong problem-solving skills and resilience in dynamic environments.
- Passionate about innovation, continuous improvement, and upholding Thai Unions values.
About Us
Thai Union, who are committed to Healthy Living, Healthy Oceans. With a focus on health and wellbeing across our portfolio. We take our responsibility to sustainable fishing and the marine environment seriously in 2016 Thai Union launched SeaChange our strategy for looking after the oceans and managing our waste, our responsibility to our people working around the globe and the communities we work with. We set ourselves and our peers some challenging targets to be more sustainable and were making great progress.
Our values drive how we approach our work and engage with our people and customers. These values are to be passionate, humble, respectful, responsible, collaborative and innovative. We do great work, the right way, in challenging times, but we have a strong team that gets the job done. Our people are full of positivity, resilience, fortitude and humour.
We are committed to creating an inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and recognized for who they are. This is a critical component of our success. Each of our employees adds value to the company regardless of gender, education, religion, origin, nationality, disability or age.
What We Can Offer You:
- A competitive salary (dependent on experience)
- Discretionary bonus (ba