India is among the top ten priority markets for General Mills, and hosts our Global Shared Services Centre. This is the Global Shared Services arm of General Mills Inc., which supports its operations worldwide. With over 1,300 employees in Mumbai, the center has capabilities in the areas of Supply Chain, Finance, HR, Digital and Technology, Sales Capabilities, Consumer Insights, ITQ (R&D & Quality), and Enterprise Business Services. Learning and capacity-building is a key ingredient of our success.
Position Title
Manager - Materials Planning, GIC SC
Function/Group
Supply Chain
Location
Mumbai
Shift Timing
1.30 PM to10.30 PM
Role Reports to
Materials Management Leader
Remote/Hybrid/in-Office
Hybrid 2-3 Days in Office in a week Mandatory
About General Mills
We make food the world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Hagen-Dazs, we've been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell.
How we make our food is as important as the food we make. Our values are baked into our legacy and continue to accelerate
us into the future as an innovative force for good. General Mills was founded in 1866 when Cadwallader Washburn boldly bought the largest flour mill west of the Mississippi. That pioneering spirit lives on today through our leadership team who upholds a vision of relentless innovation while being a force for good. For more details check out http://www.generalmills.com
General Mills India Center (GIC) is our global capability center in Mumbai that works as an extension of our global organization delivering business value, service excellence and growth, while standing for good for our planet and people.
With our team of 1800+ professionals, we deliver superior value across the areas of Supply chain (SC) , Digital & Technology (D&T) Innovation, Technology & Quality (ITQ), Consumer and Market Intelligence (CMI), Sales Strategy & Intelligence (SSI) , Global Shared Services (GSS) , Finance Shared Services (FSS) and Human Resources Shared Services (HRSS).For more details check out https://www.generalmills.co.in
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Job Overview
Function Overview
The GIC Supply Chain team manages end-to-end operations, encompassing planning, sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, and analytics. They strategically plan to meet market demands, optimize sourcing, ensure efficient production, and oversee the seamless movement of goods from production to delivery. The team employs advanced analytics throughout these processes, fostering adaptability and operational excellence. This collaborative approach ensures a well-coordinated supply chain that aligns with both organizational goals and dynamic market conditions.
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Purpose of the role
This is a manager of people role and the candidate is expected to drive process, performance and growth of the team. In this role, the candidate will be handling a team of centralized raw material planners to manage raw material operations for North America and will also be responsible for driving productivity in day to day operations.
Key Accountabilities
- Operational results and Raw Material Planning KPIs related to cost and service are well executed and delivered
- Foster the culture of Continuous Improvement and process excellence to optimize the Raw Material
- Champion process, practices and cost-effective leadership across the organization
- Create, manage and support implementation of Business Continuity plan by ensuring strong knowledge management, back-up planning, and process governance.
- Continually evaluate the process and look for an opportunity to improve service, cost and collaboration across the organization.
- Collaborate and Partner with Supplier and Sourcing to develop right pricing strategy
- Ensure that ERP, optimization and analytical tools etc. are used to drive process leadership within the organization
- Build relationship with various function of the organization to improve and partner with GIC Sr. Manager Materials Management Capabilities, GIC SC on process and systems
- Identify replenishment process gaps, communicate to required business partners, and acquire information needed to eliminate gaps in material replenishment performance.
- This individual would be expected to drive the development and execution of ordering strategies for raw materials
- Manage inbound and outbound planning for raw materials through warehouse. Manage the age process for raw materials. Ensure all the operational challenges are resolved.
- Collaborate with Sourcing buyers and brand planners to develop and implement order target quantity and get alignment from Sourcing and operating units.
- Develop target quantities for raw materials and track the order quantities against the target quantity.
- Ensure the team Provide RMWO risk assessment and recommendations to reduce write offs for specific operating units.
- Manage and execute packaging transition, vendor transition, new product launch projects on a timely manner.
- Develop RM tie out plans for packaging projects proactively and communicate the risk and mitigation plans to the operating units.
STRATEGIC RESPONSIBILITY
- Yearly revisit of Pricing & Consolidation strategy and business process to evaluate the current process to meet business needs
- Partner with Inbound Analytics and R&A team to build tools to optimize the Raw Materials
- Implementing new technologies initiated by General Mills and staying alert to new trends in this sector
- Innovative ideas/ analysis/ strategies/ tools to meet ever changing business needs.
PEOPLE MANAGEMENT
- Set directions, align and motivate team members to achieve functional /organizational goals and objectives
- Manage team member's professional, personal and social development through Individual Development Plan, Performance Appraisal, etc. available within HR resources.
- Develop future Leaders and build succession planning
- Performance Appraisal (PA) and Talent Management:
- Hiring & Retention: Ensure/Manage Hiring process for new personnel is followed and roll out retention strategies to retain key talent
- Create a pool of SME's to manage business question or risks
Minimum Qualifications
- Education Full time graduation from an accredited university (Mandatory- Note: This is the minimum education criteria which cannot be altered)
- Bachelors or Master Degree
- Not Mandatory but good to have - CSCMP, APICS, SIX SIGMA or equiv. Project Management
Preferred Qualifications
- Minimum 5-10 Years of Experience in Supply Chain
- 5+ years in people management role, 5+ years overall supply chain experience
- In depth knowledge of Supply planning concepts and expertise in end to end planning optimization.
- Knowledge of end-to-end supply chain planning processes.
- Knowledge of various supply planning and system performance KPI's and metrics
- Ability to navigate the organization across all levels to drive improvements in planning.
- Demonstrated project and change management skills.
- Strong technical and process leadership on supply planning.
- Deep business knowledge and industry experience.
- Executive presence - Ability to interact with cross functional leaders and present and challenge new ideas.
- Strong conceptual and creative problem-solving skills, ability to work with considerable ambiguity.
- Ability to build strong, collaborative working relationships with broad cross section of business partners across the globe
- Experience in management of collaboration, issue resolution, and performance improvement. Experience in working with cross functional leaders in a matrix organization Global exposure preferred
Company Overview
We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what's next.
