Demand & Supply Planner
Reckitt
We are Reckitt
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 Demand & Supply Planner, you will manage projects from day one, making decisions with real impact and driving performance through brands with purpose to Create a Cleaner & Healthier world. This is your chance!
This Role is responsible for the forecasting activities associated with customers and products to ensure that the established service level is meet.
Your responsibilities
- Manage and maintain forecast models for a certain group of brands incorporating business intelligence and forecast information gathered from sales, marketing and finance.
- Interact with sales, marketing, and customer service to understand demand forecast drivers and coordinate cross-functional activities to reconcile variances (Attending and leading S&OP meetings)
- Facilitate and coordinate activities between factories and commercial on a day-to-day basis or for specific issue to meet demand forecast and customer expectations.
- Represent Supply Chain on regional and global project teams
- Control portfolio complexity to ensure healthy level of skus
- Identify and implement supply chain processes enhancement/efficiency opportunities for continuous improvement
The experience we're looking for
- 3-5 years of experience in similar role, desirable in FMCG
- MS Office, PPTX and Excel
- Knowledge of SAP/APO or other software related to demand planning Strong working knowledge of Excel
- Committed person, dynamic, decisive, organized, flexible, proactive, and multitasking
- Open attitude, enthusiastic and with high motivation
- Analytical, organizational and decision-making skills
- Focus on results, independent, collaborative and responsible
- English proficiency