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Assistant Supply Planning Manager

City: Bangkok

We are Reckitt

Supply

Our supply chain is the backbone of our business. It's how we get our trusted products to people all over the world, safely and efficiently. And it's our talented and passionate teams that make this happen. If you're looking for a career in supply chain, there's no better place to be than Reckitt. We offer a variety of exciting opportunities in all areas of the supply chain, from planning and procurement to manufacturing and logistics. You could join our Global Supply Planning team to develop and implement our global supply strategy, or work with our Procurement Centre of Excellence team to negotiate and manage our supplier relationships. Our Manufacturing Excellence team help us improve the efficiency, quality and safety of our manufacturing operations, and our Logistics Excellence team develop new and innovative ways to distribute our products to customers.

About the role

To support the Demand and supply planning manager in driving an efficient and responsive supply planning process across defined brands and categories within the Thailand Nutrition business. This role ensures accurate production frequency, optimal inventory levels, and alignment with commercial and supply chain teams to deliver high service levels and minimize business waste.

Your responsibilities

Supply & Inventory Planning

Ensure timely communication of agreed forecasts to suppliers/intercompany sources via systems like Excel SNP or Rapid Response (Kinaxis)
Plan replenishment to maintain service levels and avoid stockouts or excess inventory.
Manage inventory levels within budget and forecast parameters, ensuring minimal waste during product relaunches or promotions.
Ownership of end-to-end replenishment process from net requirement planning to purchase orders, shipment from factories, warehouse put away until stock available for sales.
Monitor and collaborate with local forwarding agent to ensure shipment clearance on time.

Forecasting & Demand Planning

Assist Demand Planning Manager in overall demand and supply constrain report and support the IBP process.
Analysis historical sales data and work with sale/marketing to generate forecast at an SKU level by channel.
Support plans to ensure efficient introduction of new products, sku phase in/out and product discontinuation as well as Slob review and deployment.
Challenge forecast assumptions using trend analysis, MAPE, BIAS, and promotional/media phasing data.

The experience we're looking for

University degree related to the field of Supply Chain, Business Engineering
Minimum 3 years’ experience in supply/demand planning and determine priorities in a highly pressured working environment
Proficient in Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office applications
Knowledge on SAP APO, SNP, Kinaxis is a added advantage
Highly analytical and fact-based decision making
Able to work independently, think logically, challenge status quo, and consistently seek to improve current way of working to seek of productivity
Able to manage multiple priorities in a rapid change environment
Good interpersonal skills and strong command of both written and spoken English and Thai

The skills for success

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What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.

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