Senior Product Flow Management Specialist

About the Role:

Are you passionate about bringing products to market, driving process improvements and ensuring everything comes together seamlessly behind the scenes?

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Product Flow Management Specialist to join our UK & Ireland Supply Chain team at Ferrero.

Reporting to the Product Flow Management (PFM) Manager, you'll play a key role in coordinating product launches, managing complex product portfolios and ensuring new products, packaging changes, seasonal activities and promotional initiatives are delivered successfully to market.

Working at the heart of our Supply Chain operation, you'll collaborate with teams across Marketing, Sales, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, R&D, Finance and Legal, ensuring product information, documentation and processes are accurate, aligned and delivered on time.

This is a highly visible role offering the opportunity to influence stakeholders, manage complex projects and drive continuous improvement across our product flow processes. You'll also have responsibility for developing and supporting a PFM Specialist, helping to build capability and strengthen performance within the team.

Main Responsibilities:

You'll take ownership of product flow activities across designated categories, coordinating new product launches, promotional activities, seasonal ranges and product changes from initial planning through to market delivery. You'll manage timelines, priorities and dependencies across the product lifecycle, ensuring documentation, master data and system requirements are completed accurately and on time.

Working closely with cross-functional stakeholders, you'll proactively identify risks, resolve bottlenecks and provide clear updates and recommendations to senior Supply Chain, Marketing and Sales teams, ensuring business priorities remain aligned and products reach the market as planned.

You'll oversee the end-to-end product documentation and artwork development processes, coordinating the creation, review and approval of product information and packaging changes. Collaborating with Marketing, R&D, Legal, international teams and external agencies, you'll ensure requirements are met, timelines are maintained and potential issues are resolved before they impact product launches.

You'll also identify opportunities to simplify artwork processes, reduce complexity and improve efficiency across the wider product portfolio.

You'll ensure the accuracy, completeness and timely availability of product master data across relevant business systems, including SAP and sales planning platforms. This will involve coordinating material, supply chain, financial and customer-specific information to support new product launches, local co-packing activities and ongoing product availability.

You'll work collaboratively with internal and international stakeholders to resolve data challenges, strengthen process governance and contribute to improvements in systems, tools and ways of working.

You'll act as a key contact for UK & Ireland packaging and environmental data management, ensuring accurate and timely reporting in line with regulatory requirements and Ferrero standards. Working closely with Finance, Tax and external partners, you'll support packaging-related reporting, submissions and financial planning, including activities relating to Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), Plastic Packaging Tax and other relevant packaging waste obligations.

You'll play an important role in identifying opportunities to streamline workflows, strengthen processes and improve efficiency across the Product Flow Management function. Supporting the PFM Manager, you'll help drive the standardisation of tools, processes and best practices, ensuring improvements are sustainable and deliver value to the business.

Alongside your operational responsibilities, you'll provide day-to-day leadership, coaching and development to a PFM Specialist, encouraging collaboration, accountability and continuous learning. You'll also support wider functional priorities and deputise for the PFM Manager when required.

About You:

We're looking for an organised, proactive and commercially aware professional who enjoys managing complexity, building strong relationships and delivering results in a fast-paced environment.

You'll bring solid experience within an FMCG, consumer goods or retail environment, with a strong understanding of New Product Development (NPD), product lifecycle management and supply chain processes. You'll be confident coordinating cross-functional projects, managing competing priorities and ensuring key milestones are achieved.

You'll have experience working with master data management processes and business systems, including SAP, alongside strong analytical skills and proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel. An understanding of product documentation, artwork development and packaging processes will also be important in supporting successful product launches.

With excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, you'll be comfortable influencing colleagues at different levels, challenging existing ways of working and finding practical solutions to complex challenges.

You'll also bring a continuous improvement mindset and the ability to support, coach and develop others, creating a collaborative and high-performing working environment.

Knowledge of packaging compliance, environmental reporting or Extended Producer Responsibility would be an advantage.

What We Offer:

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About Ferrero:

Ferrero began its journey in the small town of Alba in Piedmont, Italy, in 1946. Today, it is one of the world’s largest sweet-packaged food companies, with many iconic brands sold in countries all over the world. Find out more about Ferrero at ferrero.com .

DE&I at Ferrero:

Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative, and highly rewarding.
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