Head of Connected Planning, Essential Home

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:

You’ll be responsible for managing the overall connected planning process with Essential Home Business unit with ownership of the E2E planning process managing both long term capacity planning and mid to short term planning processes. You will also be responsible for managing our External Manufacturing planning processes and performance management of EMOs. You will have responsibility for enhancing and establishing centralised demand management processes to support our regions drive better IBP processes and forecast accuracy performance.

ESSENTIAL HOME

With a trusted portfolio of world-class Air Care, Surface, Laundry and Pest Control products, the Essential Home team’s purpose is to Make A House A Home. Fuelling this newly formed business and leadership team is a diverse and inclusive culture for all. Together, we’re shaping a team with a founder mentality: that listens and learns, and that is entrepreneurial, agile, and action oriented.

With high-quality brands such as Air Wick, Cillit Bang, Calgon and Mortine, now is an exciting time to join a dynamic company full of purpose, pace and energy, that will create a truly unique learning and career opportunity for all.

Your responsibilities:

• Full ownership of the management of mid to long term capacity planning across our manufacturing network.
• Mid to short term production allocation in constrained supply environments.
• Developing and deploying inventory safety stock strategies across the Essential Home network.
• Developing processes and action plans in collaboration with markets and factories to optimize SLOB and overall inventory levels.
• Building collaborative relationships with our EMO partners to ensure optimal service levels and inventory levels on our EMO portfolio.
• Expert user of various demand & supply planning systems & data sources.
• Deliver exceptional service to our customers via the maintenance of a high Pack Fill Rate while ensuring we are holding optimal inventory.
• Deliver against business Net Working Capital targets and Commercial Fixed Costs targets through the development and execution of inventory improvement plans.
• Minimize business risks of Supply Chain Losses by ensuring robust Inventory Health and SLOB management process.
• Build and Maintain Strong relationships with internal and external partners.
• Build a strong planning team which will feed as a talent pipeline to the wider supply organization.

The experience we are looking for:

• Advanced Forecasting & Supply Chain Planning Excellence.
• Intermediate Customer Service Excellence.
• Intermediate understanding of logistics excellence specifically on inbound logistics.
• Intermediate Leadership Skills with ability to motivate and inspire a large team.
• Advanced Analytical skills and ability to source and interpret data from multiple sources.
• Intermediate Financial and Advanced Commercial Acumen.
• Intermediate ability to work with ambiguity and make effective decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• Minimum of 5 Years experience in a supply chain role with experience in leading/running a company planning process.
• Minimum of 2 Years experience in a line management role.

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 recognize, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognize 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; color, 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.