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Supply Planner

City: Dubai

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

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

As the next Supply Planner in our Middle East Supply organization, you will be responsible for overall planning of Reckitt’s portfolio where you will manage several well-known Reckitt brands in a fast and dynamic environment.

Your responsibilities

Manage supply planning operations to deliver the required level of inventory, minimizing storage costs whilst ensuring high service levels.
Analyse any out of stock or over stocked situation to understand the root cause and relate the impact to the business.
Provide pro-active steps to bring in stocks when facing shortage and find ways to reduce inventories when stocks are high.
Responsible for production & embellishment plans of finished goods, coordinate with factories & market planners.
Lead and prepare weekly service call to challenge factory’s production plan to maximize service level with optimum inventory.
Actively reduce stock obsolescence by constantly reviewing the supply plans, as well as play a part a part in SLOBS mitigation plans with trade marketing.
Actively manage the optimum levels of inventory in your portfolio, by weekly factory engagements, all risks (over/low stocks) to be highlighted with action plans.
Ensure business waste is kept minimal for product relaunches or promotions.
Challenge status quo and provide solutions/opinions to improve current way of working to seek supply productivity.
Maintain and manage supply/demand related reports e.g., daily trackers, SNP & JDE reports.
Maintain master data in ERP systems (JDE/SAP)
Play an active role in driving the digital transformation agenda, focusing on both system implementation (Kinaxis RR) and process optimization
Ensure supply chain continuity with phase in phase out, new project initiatives while ensuring finished goods and raw/pack material wite-off is minimized.

The experience we're looking for

University degree related to the field of Supply Chain with 2-3 years of experience.
Customer centric and with strong customer service mindset.
High level of competency in Excel is a must.
Knowledge in SAP APO SNP, JD Edwards, MS Office is a plus.
Agile, analytical, motivated and a good team player who can work with multiple cross functional stakeholders.
Understand the FMCG nature and business.

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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