Supply Planner
Reckitt
Operations
shinagawa city, tokyo, japan
Posted on Oct 10, 2025
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.
Our Supply Team
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 incumbent will provide Planning for relevant categories of products for Japan and be responsible for ensure the best possible product availability for customer service and sales support throughout the Company, at the lowest cost.
Your responsibilities
- Stock level management for the appropriate category, ensure appropriate Stock level control to support customer service and achieve business objectives for sales and Stock level
- Propose supply development
- Daily control of 3rd party business arrangements for inbound freight and operations
- Third party & Inter Group planning using information from Demand planning and Procurement
- Ensure the cost effective and Import
- Maintain database of planning information to monitor vendors performance
- Propose improvement /re-engineering processes to create a flexible responsible supply chain and excellent customer service at a low cost
- Provision of information to Sales and Marketing on product availability, feasibility of promotions and other actions.
- Review and update inventory data and latest sales information between internal/3rd party systems as well as tools to monitor product availability to ensure required service level.
- Ensure value added to planning through close discussions and monitoring with continuous inputs from Demand Planning.
- Collect, monitor, record and update system with data relevant to 3rd party planning, ensuring that the data is credible and retrievable.
- Drive improvements within the 3rd party/IG (PO) process to contribute towards the achievement of the optimization of the process, customer service and supply chain efficiencies and inventory level reductions.
- Ensure alignment between manufacturing production plans and the unconstrained demand plans and challenge suppliers where demand is at risk.
- Support annual budget process and reviews as required by the business.
- Monitoring of vender performance related to promotional activities and events before, during and after the indicated periods.
- Work with sales and marketing to ensure reduction in an obsolescence level on promotional materials and finished goods
- Negotiate freight & landed (import/export) costs for all imported finished goods and ensure optimization of container utilization.
- Control import/export materials and Finished Goods (RM/PM)
- Control Freight-in cost for importing.
- Compilation and interpretation of Vender performance measures.
The experience we're looking for
- Supply planning qualification (Planning, Purchasing, Inventory management, Inbound tracking) - Minumum 3 years
- Data management, material and capacity planning, customs clearance
- Progressive Planning / Logistics management experience, preferably in a FMCG planning environment - Minumum 3 years
Skills / Competences
- Sense of responsibility, urgency and result oriented
- Analytical and numarate
- Committed and strong team player
- Thoroughly understand inventory/forecasting relationships and their effect on freight out costs and working capital.
- Good working knowledge of household products, inventory management and logistics.
- Good working knowledge on Excel (vlookup, pivot, sumif minimum required skillset), and SAP/JDE system is an added advantage.
- Able to understand the supply market dynamics for key sales.
- Able to make decisions with the least direction
- Able to drive change and is comfortable working in a transitional environment
- Must be prepared to travel if required.
- Business level English (Speaking/Writing)
- Proven expertise and skills household/pharma product manufacturing technologies advantageous
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.