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Supply Planner - Action EU

City: Hoofddorp

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 a Supply Planner, you will lead the local S&OP process for all Action brands across Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, and France, ensuring alignment with marketing and sales teams to deliver excellence to customers. You will own the country-level forecast, manage inventory targets, and drive KPI performance for forecast accuracy and stock levels. This role involves coordinating supply planning, overseeing factory production schedules, mitigating risks, and representing Action in central planning meetings. Additionally, you will collaborate with logistics and customer supply chain teams to optimize processes and implement continuous improvement initiatives.

Your responsibilities

Prepare the country S&OP process for customer Action.
Interact with local sales, marketing to understand demand forecast drivers and coordinate cross-functional activities to reconcile variances. Ensure awareness of WD build up (opening stores)
Manage and maintain forecast models for a certain group of brands incorporating business intelligence and forecast information gathered from sales, marketing and finance.
Manage all NPD/EPD launches into the business with the support of local Marketing, Sales and Supply teams including contingency planning and preventing issues in advance.
Facilitate and coordinate activities between factories/central planning and commercial on a day-to-day basis or for specific issue to meet demand forecast and customer expectations.
Monitor factories production plans and manage inventory levels to optimize investment and minimize obsoletes/slow moving.
Identify and implement supply chain processes enhancement/efficiency opportunities for continuous improvement.
Analyse service drivers and leads improvement initiatives to deliver best in class service performance.

The experience we're looking for

Min. 2 years of experience preferably in an FMCG environment
Experience of statistical/data analysis/forecasting techniques
Ability to handle competing priorities and tasks, remain organized and meet deadlines
Ability to define problem, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions
Excellent project management skills and ability to work with minimal supervision in a fast-paced and collaborative environment
Strong interpersonal skills, ability to communicate and influence internally across multiple departments and levels, and to work effectively as part of a team or on own initiative
Knowledge of SAP or Kinaxis - Rapid Response or other software related to demand planning & S&OP in a big plus!
Strong working knowledge of Excel in mandatory
English Fluent

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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