Connected Planner GC & NoA

Reckitt Benckiser India Pvt Ltd

Hyderabad, India

4-6 Years

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Job Description

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, minimum inventory and top cost management. This is achieved through development and deployment of efficient tools and processes, clear and transparent communication, and cross functional collaboration and alignment within our Compass at the heart of everything we do.

The Connected Planner is a smart, analytical, driven and knowledgeable and passionate supply chain professional who is looking to take the next step in their career and gain area/global exposure to multiple stake holders across the Reckitt business.

As the roles and responsibilities of the position will evolve as industry trends evolve, the individual will be expected to show an interest and keep up to date with latest supply concepts and work closely with Centre of Excellence Teams and identify opportunities to leverage and incorporate these concepts to the Reckitt business. Keep in mind that while Connected Planning Lead is leading the function, the Connected Planner is the face of the Connected Planning team on the ground.

Key responsibilities will be as critical as your technical skills in this role as you collaborate across markets, factories, copackers etc. Key is that you will be interacting with both Multi-functional teams both in and outside of RB as we relentlessly pursue our purpose.

Your responsibilities

. Full ownership of the supply plan for the category, including internal and external manufacturing.
. Works with Site Planning Leads globally to ensure continuity of supply and maximise service to market.
. Define management and personal development responsibilities of site planning leads.
. Chair supply review for their respective category.
. Works with IDM Demand Planners to ensure that there is right forecast enrichment and consensus which reflects the latest Demand.
. Provides governance to the category demand forecasting with a holistic, customer centric approach managing all stake holders.
. Leads and streamlines the communication between markets and sites. Becomes the voice of the markets at Connected Planner.
. Proactive management of service to the markets and management of the mid-term horizon.
. Produces stock requirement for markets & sites. Ensures the best visibility of service level projections for markets.
. Drives the on time delivery targets and managing their execution. Coordinate input from the markets & factory and ensure the targets are adhered to by the business.
. Scenario supply planning. Conduct ad-hoc cost/ benefit analysis on various options to balance supply and demand i.e. to be presented to category to regional leadership teams.
. Negotiate targets (provided by x-functional Owners) with input from the Markets & Site. Ensures the targets are achievable as described in the business.
. Track the KPIs aligned for the category between factories and countries to over-deliver the targets.
. Work 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.
. Monitor and consolidate Obsoletes/Provisioned Items across markets to align clearance strategies with Obsoletes Hub and assure full clearance.

The experience we're looking for

. Solid knowledge of Supply systems/ tools and E2E Knowledge (connecting Demand, Supply and S&OP).
. Strong influencing and communication skills.
. Strong analytical ability, analyze complex data, identify issues, explain variability & recommend solutions.
. Strong ability to build relationships with enhanced ability to influence and negotiate with good communication ability.
. Ability to challenge constructively and confidently while making sure that all stake holders are heard.
. Strong ability to develop high profile, influential and collaborative relationships across markets, functions and layers.
. Good knowledge of SAP & JDE ERP systems.
. Good knowledge of Lean Forecasting, Forecasting Enrichment and understanding the issues on forecasting.
. Strong presentation, communication and inter personal skills.
. Fluent spoken & written English.
. 4-5 years demand/supply planning experience.

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.