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Demand Planner

City: Parsippany

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 Demand Planner you will be responsible for developing sales forecasts for key brands to arrive at a business consensus with the commercial business and the supply organization, and for maintaining customer service and inventory control in finished goods with a focus on delivering total customer service satisfaction and net working capital targets.

Forecasts will be established by analyzing and evaluating the combination of consumer and customer trade promotions, run rates, trends, & seasonality, using demand planning software and judgmental inputs to achieve business alignment.

In addition to this, the Demand Planner will attend team meetings with the sales and customer service to ensure smooth start-up of new launches and projects.

This role will focus on our export business and building forecast with sales team for the export market across all brands, drive consensus and maintain best forecast in system. Apart from this – will also support team around event planning, Amazon and running deep analytics for the brands.

This role is not currently sponsoring visas or considering international movement at this time.

Your responsibilities

Direct responsibility for the management of a consensus enterprise forecast for assigned brands and business units.
Coordination of monthly demand planning meetings with Sales, Marketing, Customer Marketing, and Manufacturing.
Analysis of customer acceptance information and market penetration estimates to develop forecasts for new product introductions, identifying high side and low side risk to these estimates.
Thorough management of Excess and Obsolete stock
The joint development of inventory strategies with Manufacturing, using accuracy statistics, forecast variability, and estimated risk to forecast projections.
Evaluation of consumer and trade promotion activities to establish meaningful projections of future promotions.
Work closely with export sales team to maintain forecast by item by location – drive alignment and maintain in system
Ensure proper visibility of big sales event and provide analytics and visibility support to ensure flawless execution (Prime day, MVM etc)
Contribution to the implementation of processes and systems tools to develop a customer demand driven demand-planning process.

The experience we're looking for

Must have a BS degree in engineering, supply chain management, logistics, business or another related discipline
2+ years in a demand planning or similar supply chain role.
Solid analytical and problem-solving skills
Work experience within the fast-moving consumer goods industry is preferred
Must have proven experience working in a fast-paced environment with ability to manage multiple priorities
Must have solid working knowledge using an MRP system (Kinaxis strongly preferred)
Must have strong computer skills, especially using excel with ability to create spreadsheets and perform advanced formulas and functions
Pro-activeness /self-learner
Team player - involves working with different departments
Data-driven & hands-on approach when necessary. Effective leadership skills to be able to drive projects to completion
Excellent communication 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.

US salary ranges

USD $78,000.00 - $118,000.00

US pay transparency

The base salary range for this role will vary based on experience in job and industry, training and education, skills relevant to the position, and other factors permitted by law. In addition to the base salary, the position is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, which is subject to change each year. Reckitt offers eligible employees competitive benefits including medical, prescription, dental, vision, and life and disability insurance; paid time off for vacation, sick and Company recognized holidays; a 401(k) plan; 16-week paid parental leave or 26 weeks for the birthing parent; adoption and fertility support; tuition reimbursement; discounts; and much more. Our compensation and benefits packages aim to give our talent the reward, protection, and peace of mind they deserve. If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete your application, please contact NAtalentacquisition@reckitt.com. Reckitt is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals.

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.

Nearest Major Market: New York City
Nearest Secondary Market: Newark
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