VP Global Supply Chain

Location: FRA-Gard-Aimargues

Job Purpose & Context

The role reports directly to the RC VCO VP and has a dotted-line reporting relationship to the MSE Supply Chain VP. The role holder is a member of the Royal Canin VCO Leadership Team and the Petcare Supply Chain community.

This is a transversal role interacting with Marketing, Sales, the DLT, IT Steering Committees, Demand Planning, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, Regulatory, Finance, and the Mars Commercial community.

Drive Royal Canin’s Supply Chain Center of Excellence, including continuous improvement and deployment of the Supply Chain Planning Target Operating Model, Customer Supply Chain Operating Model, sustainable logistics standardization, and global trade (primarily ocean freight) and trade compliance.

Align short- to long-term cross-regional ambitions and targets for supply chain, and develop and standardize capabilities to improve the 5Cs: carbon footprint in logistics, cash from inventory, cost of logistics, customer service, and customer experience.

Responsibly disrupt supply chain ways of working—across segments where possible—by leveraging AI capabilities, especially in knowledge management, customer service, cost-to-serve, and master data management.

Lead master data management, governance, and quality on behalf of Royal Canin.

Key Responsibilities

Member of the VCO Leadership Team

Contribute to the creation of the VCO strategy and definition of VCO priorities.

Represent the function in cross-functional forums.

Supply Chain Strategy for Royal Canin

Define Royal Canin’s global supply chain strategy with the Global VCO VP and the Pet Nutrition/Petcare Supply Chain VP, and collaborate with Mars Supply Excellence on capabilities.

Lead global network development, keeping the 5Cs in mind at all times. This includes inventory strategy, service-level optimization, long-term capacity planning, long-term cost forecasts, customer segmentation and route-to-market strategies, global ocean trade and trade compliance, as well as network rationalization opportunities in collaboration with Industrial Engineering.

Drive Customer Supply Chain strategy and execution across regions as digital transformation changes how we do business with customers.

Drive Centers of Excellence for demand and supply planning, sustainable logistics, Customer Supply Chain, and physical-logistics capability development; establish standards, ensure process compliance, define IT requirements, and report business impact.

Lead Digital Transformation in Supply Chain & MDM for Royal Canin

Consolidate and coordinate VCO needs to inform the Royal Canin IT strategy for VCO.

Responsibly disrupt supply chain ways of working by leveraging AI capabilities, especially in knowledge management, customer service, cost-to-serve, and master data management.

Act as a catalyst for innovative technologies, stimulate exploration of new IT solutions across VCO, and represent Royal Canin in segment and corporate IT transformation governance.

Connect VCO with New Business Development on technologies.

Leadership

Drive the People Agenda, champion the Five Principles, communicate and inspire teams toward the VCO vision, drive engagement, build capabilities, and strengthen the Supply Chain talent succession pipeline.

Candidate Qualifications

• Master’s degree in supply chain, economics, operations research, or an equivalent field.
• At least 10 years of experience within Value Chain, preferably across the broader Supply dimensions of Plan, Source, Make, and Deliver.
• Significant line-management experience.
• Fluency in English.