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Demand and Embellishment Planner

Reckitt

Slough, UK

Posted on Jun 25, 2025

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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 Your 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 Mortein, 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.

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

You will be responsible for a Brand SKU portfolio, driving alignment of an agreed Brand forecast through the monthly S&OP cycle.

Maintaining weekly SKU level forecasts within KINAXIS DP through the inputs provided from the S&OP process. These forecasts are used for planning production and the purchase of finished goods from our global supply sites, as well as providing a forward view of sales revenue to the Business.

The role interfaces directly with Sales and Marketing to accurately reflect promotional and marketing activity within the forecast. For major accounts, Customer collaboration sessions form part of the monthly process to drive promotional alignment and compliance.

This is a highly visible role within the Essential Home business and involves presenting to the senior leadership team each month.

This role will also be responsible for ensuring continuity of Supply through collaborating with factories and 3rd party copackers, control of inventory levels, control raw and pack materials and ensuring service to our customers through executing the forecast.Further to Demand and Supply Planning, this role will be responsible for leading Embellishment across the total portfolio. Embellishment demand mainly comes from in store displays so the successful candidate would work closely with our Marketing and Sales teams to plan and execute all upcoming embellishment activations.

Your responsibilities

Maintain SKU forecast in KINAXIS DP for the next 12 months as a minimum. This is done through consolidating the inputs from the IBP process, performing trend analysis, and providing challenge where necessary to the stakeholders in the Commercial Business.
Leading the Demand Planning Meeting within the S&OP process to generate the business forecast for defined Customer(s)
Ensure an accurate Customer / SKU forecast to help facilitate delivery in full and best in class customer service.
Ownership and achievement primary KPI’s – Forecast Accuracy (MAD / Bias), Customer Fill Rate (PFR)
Supporting NPD/EPD projects within product portfolio.
The planning of the 3rd party copackers by creating purchase orders base on the correct lead time
Ensuring continuity of supply through collaboration with the 3rd party and RB factories
Control of inventory of the stock, pack materials and raw material
Understanding the relationship between forecast and planning as this is directly affecting the copackers / factory`s RCCP and you need to find the best solution to control the inventory.
Tracking inbounds shipments to ensure on time delivery via sea freight/air freight by having a strong collaboration with Logistics peers.
Work with UK Marketing, Global Marketing and Trade Marketing to identify new product opportunities for UK Embellishment
Project management of embellishment launches into the business with the support of the Commercial and Supply teams including contingency planning and resolving issues
Ensure that the first production plans for Embellishment NPD’s and promotional units are aligned to business needs and alongside the ongoing embellishment planner to ensure stock is available when required
Support in the Financial Forecast Planning across embellishment for UKI including aligning quarterly forecasts, managing embellishment costs keeping within budgets.
Maintain optimum customer service levels by effectively coordinating with production facilities and managing daily forecasts.

The experience we're looking for

Experience of working with a FMCG companyExperience in Demand Planning
Project Management experience in driving productivity
Strong analytical ability; analyse complex data, identify issues, explain variances and recommend solutions
Strong Relationship builder and excellent at cross functional day to day interaction or project work
Ability to consider and drive end to end improvements
Self-motivated with strong influencing skills
Working knowledge of Supply Chain Management

The skills for success

Supply Chain Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration, Partnership building, Relationship management, Business acumen, Productivity management, Logistics management, Project management, Improve business processes, Advanced analytics, Data analytics, Manufacturing excellence, Ecommerce, Demand planning.

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.