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Manager- Supply Planning

City: Gurugram

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

Primary responsibility of the role is to ensure finished goods availability at SKU-DC level on timely basis and as per forecast while ensuring that Inventory is as optimized as possible. The role holder is responsible for production planning and distribution planning across pan-India DCs and multiple sourcing sites (EMO, In-house, Import sites, Central WHs, etc.) and is responsible to manage the communication between key stakeholders in assessing the supply risks and opportunities as a part of the S&OP process

SCOPE / DIMENSIONS OF ROLE

The role requires close engagement with Sales/Brand/Production other supply teams to ensure stock availability at right location and right time. The role also requires collaboration with EMO operations, NPD team, Logistics, Customer Service, Quality, and Import site to ensure execution of preset plans on set frequency.
The Supply Planner plays a vital role during Product transitions and implementation of Artwork revisions to minimize material write offs. Actively participate and provide key support to execute supply chain projects.

Your responsibilities

 Ensure stock availability as per desired Shelf life for MT, ECOM, CSD channels
 Drive range SKU’s stock availability at DC level by coordination with region teams
 Ensure that Promos/Art-work changes/Price Changes/ legal compliances are executed at factories/ EMOs on time
 Deliver Net working Capital targets for company while ensuring the desired Service levels
 Provide input for long-term capacity planning (5-year RCCP) for multi-site complex supply network
 Create inputs for yearly budget exercise for sites basis demand from Finance and DP team
 Ensure adoption and stabilization by regular review of system Plans
 Ensure NPD roll outs are on time from the production perspective
 Provide support and execute action plans to minimize SLOB and Inventory write offs

KEY CHALLENGES

 Ensure superior service levels for range SKUs as per desired Shelf Life of each channel
 Ensure Inventory Management at DC’s as per storage segmentation in Drug room, Cold room, Aerosol room etc

The experience we're looking for

• MBA in Supply Chain or Operations Management
• 3-5 Years of working in fast-paced, growth-oriented organizations with experience in Planning & Supply Chain Management.
 Demonstrates strong commitment to KPIs and has a demonstrated record of excellence
 Commercial awareness - Understands impact of supply chain decisions on business profitability
 Has a solution oriented and entrepreneurial approach
 Excellent analytical, communication and presentation skills

The skills for success

Supply Chain Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Relationship Management, Business accumen, Productivity management, Improve business processes, Advanced Analytics, Data Analytics, Supply Chain Planning, Logistics Management.

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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