Supply Planner

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.

About the role

The Demand Planner is responsible for all forecasting activities associated with customers and products. The Demand Planner creates and maintains forecast as a key part of company S&OP process, incorporating business intelligence and forecast information gathered from sales, marketing, finance, Sales Analysts, and other sources. 

Your responsibilities

• Manage the creation and evaluation of the monthly forecast by SKU by analyzing various sales (Online/Offline channels) and market consumption (Intage and POS from specific customers) historical data.  
• Lead monthly pre-S&OP/S&OP meetings to align company sales forecast with Trade marketing, sales and marketing based on the forecast built by demand planner. Get the latest information from cross functional team and reflect into forecast.
• Kinaxis Rapid Response Demand planning module Superuser role. Lead full implementation/utilization co-working with Global E2E(End to End) training team.
• Lead the creation of NPD (New launch products) forecast together with commercial team by utilizing inputs and historical sales data.
• Drive forecast accuracy improvement with Online/Offline key accounts by communicating with related team closely.
• Work with supply planners closely sharing sales forecast to ensure service level.     

Key Challenges

1. Process management - Detail/Diligent/Deadline
2. Develop and share best practice to ensure optimal efficiency
3. Actively keep strategic partnerships to support company business

Skills and experiences we're looking for

• Previous demand forecasting or supply planning experience preferably in an FMCG environment - Minimum 3 years
• Highly analytical and numerate
• Ability to handle high levels of pressure
• Sense of responsibility and ownership
• Committed and strong team player
• Proven ability to operate in a matrix environment and work effectively with all level of employees across organizational boundaries
• Ability to successfully prioritize and manage multiple tasks while adhering to specified deadlines
• Proven expertise and skills household/pharma product manufacturing technologies advantageous
• Good working knowledge on Excel (vlookup, pivot, sumif are minimum required skillset), Power BI and Kinaxis Rapid Response/SAP/JDE knowledge and experience is an added advantage.
• English and Japanese skills (Speaking/Writing) are MUST    

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.