E2E Planning Team Lead
We are Reckitt
Supply
About the role
The E2E Planning Team Lead plays a pivotal role in driving planning excellence across Reckitt’s Canadian operations. This role leads integrated planning across demand, supply, and inventory, ensuring alignment between commercial, manufacturing, and logistics teams.
In addition, the role serves as the lead for the designated planning excellence workstream, working closely with the global Centre of Excellence to roll out planning enhancements, maintain a pipeline of business-specific initiatives, and drive automation of planning processes—including ownership of the key IBP forums.
Your responsibilities
- Lead the integrated business planning (IBP) process across the full value chain.
- Drive forecast accuracy and demand planning improvements in collaboration with commercial teams.
- Optimize supply planning to ensure product availability while minimizing working capital.
- Partner with manufacturing and logistics to align capacity, production, and distribution plans.
- Lead the Planning Excellence workstream for Canada:
- Collaborate with the Centre of Excellence to implement planning enhancements.
- Maintain and prioritize a pipeline of business-specific improvement initiatives.
- Drive automation of demand planning processes.
- Lead the designated IBP cadence and ensure alignment across stakeholders.
- Mentor and develop team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
The experience we're looking for
- 7+ years of experience in supply chain planning, preferably in FMCG or CPG.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes and systems (SAP/APO, Kinaxis, or similar).
- Proven leadership in cross-functional environments with strong stakeholder management skills.
- Experience with S&OP/IBP processes and supply chain transformation projects.
- Analytical mindset with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
- Passion for driving innovation, automation, and operational excellence.
The skills for success
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.
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