Connected Planning Manager

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

The vision of the Connected Planning team is to be an effective enabler to delivery of sustainable best in class service levels, with optimum inventory and cost management.  This is achieved through development and deployment of efficient tools and processes, clear and transparent communication, and cross functional collaboration and alignment with our Compass at the heart of everything we do.

As a Connected Planning Manager, you will focus to drive outstanding planning capabilities and ensure all supply and demand functions are working towards agreed plan in order to achieve desired KPI’s. Both your business and interpersonal skills will be critical in order to lead processes in the region and drive proper collaboration across markets, factories and all business partners.

Your responsibilities

• Leading communication streams in structural way between markets and factories. Providing governance around demand & supply balancing with a holistic, un-biased viewpoint managing all stakeholders.
• Working closely with Manufacturing and Demand Planning teams to optimize the end-to-end supply chain in terms of cost, efficiency, go-to-market lead time reduction.
• Working with Site Planning Leads to ensure continuity of supply and maximize service to market.
• Working with market Demand Planners to ensure that there is right forecast enrichment done which reflects the latest demand.
• Providing full visibility on supply across markets, assure transparency on product availability with early identification and quick solution of any potential issues.
• Overseeing the short-, mid- and long-term supply plan. Identify opportunities to drive focus on exceptions e.g. Service Level Projections, ABC analysis, Repeat OOS etc
• Setting up inventory targets and manage their execution
• Scenario planning: conducting ad-hoc cost/ benefit analysis on various options to balance supply and demand, to be presented to regional leadership and in various forums.
• Monitor and consolidate Obsoletes/Provisioned items across EU/ANZ to align clearance strategies.
• Partnering with Centre of Excellence to define and execute process and systems trainings to raise the bar of planning competences within the category or region. Drive continuous improvements through standardization and simplification of work processes.

The experience we're looking for

• Solid knowledge of end-to-end supply chain processes (connecting Demand, Supply and S&OP), ability to understand and explain complex issues/datasets & to propose solutions
• 6+ years’ experience in supply and demand planning, preferably in FMCG sector 
• SAP ECC/APO, Kinaxis is essential, APICS CPIM / CSCP is preferable. 
• Excellent management and personal leadership skillset, with an ability to build robust relationships with multiple stakeholders across different geographies.
• Proven ability to operate in a matrix environment and work effectively with various stakeholders, tasks prioritization
• Strong presentation, communication and inter-personal skills​
• Positive & Can-Do attitude with a clear and effective communication style.
• Ability to challenge constructively and confidently, using analytical skillset
• Fluent spoken & written English​

The skills for success

Supply Chain Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Relationship Management, Business Acumen, 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.