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Factory Planning Capability Senior Manager

City: Warszawa

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 senior leader within the Factory Planning Capability team, you will play a pivotal role in strengthening factory planning processes, tools, and capabilities across Europe. This role sits at the intersection of E2E supply expertise, factory operations, process excellence, and system adoption (Kinaxis/E2E Planning). You will ensure that factories consistently use global standards, processes, and tools while respecting their operational realities. Acting as a bridge between factory planning teams, regional stakeholders, and Global Centre of Excellence, you will assess current maturity levels, define improvement plans, and lead capability-building initiatives across European factories.

Your responsibilities

Lead system adoption for Kinaxis/E2E Planning and ensure planning processes align with global tool capabilities.
Drive process standardisation and continuous improvement across factories, ensuring compliance with global standards.
Conduct AS‑IS assessments, define improvement opportunities, and lead the implementation of best practices.
Help defining Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) across the region.
Perform process maturity assessments and create action plans to elevate factory planning maturity.
Support and coach factory planners in daily planning activities, troubleshooting and capability building.
Collaborate with Production Planners, Connected Planning teams, Supply Chain, and Operations.
Contribute to RCCP processes, factory agility improvements, and KPI-driven performance enhancement.
Work with IT and system experts to configure and optimise production planning tools.
Manage 1 FTE and ensure effective knowledge sharing through a Community of Practice.
Provide analytical insights, data-driven recommendations, and structured problem-solving guidance.
Travel approximately 10% across European factories, with occasional visits to the UK.

The experience we're looking for

2+ years of direct factory planning experience (production planning, scheduling, daily operations).
5+ years E2E supply exposure, including an understanding of how demand fluctuations impact factory execution.
Experience in centralisation or transformation projects involving planning teams.
Strong experience in process design, mapping, maturity assessments and continuous improvement.
Proficiency with planning systems (Kinaxis preferred; any ERP tool required).
Strong analytical thinking, data competence and ability to work with highly numerical stakeholders.
Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
A proactive, independent, solution-oriented mindset with strong ownership.
Fluency in English – C1

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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