Key Accountabilities:
(Please describe the responsibilities and end results that would be expected.)
- Planning for Foods, Home Care & Personal Care.
- SC representative for SNOP and represent planning function
- Responsible for conversion of demand plan into a production plan on weekly basis.
- Responsible for release of 19 weeks rolling plan and ensure hygiene of the same.
- Collaborate with the planning team / Customer service / distribution team (local and imported packs) to ensure delivery of customer service, stock and cost requirements.
- Work closely with the Warehouse & Distribution Manager to ensure delivery of customer service, stock, and cost requirements.
- Work closely with distribution to forecast distance travelled and CPT and deliver targets while liaising with the appropriate planning teams (site and third party) to overcome short/medium term constraints.
- Identify potential bottlenecks on finished goods production, including with key suppliers, and propose ways to resolve them at optimal cost (Short and medium term DSR)
- Work closely with demand planning team to drive complexity reduction in terms of SKUs and be part of all S&OP discussions.
- Deliver the business supply planning process, particularly the annual supply planning process, to ensure a robust supply plan is issued to the manufacturing sourcing units, third party and sourcing teams for volume and cost planning purposes.
- Manage the stock holding policy in order to meet customer service level targets and Glide path/RDOH targets.
- Manages material inventories & call offs of RM/PM with suppliers within set inventory targets.
- Determines inbound logistics requirements.
- Support project teams and ensure appropriate early management rigour in delivering innovation through the wider supply chain. This includes early management of write offs for Finished Goods, raw and packaging materials as a result of new innovation or re-launches (bleed -in/discontinuation).
- Run up/ run down of all materials in times of innovations/promotions to ensure limited business waste and on time availability of new materials
Key SOL’s:
(The key Unilever standards of leadership which are important for the job.)
- Consumer & Customer Focus
- Bias for Action
- Building Talent & Teams
- Accountability & Responsibility
Professional Skills:
(The minimum requirement from the job skills profile should be described, including degrees/qualifications preferred.)
ESSENTIAL
- University Degree / Engineering Degree. Supply chain (APICS etc) qualification advantage
- Experience in FMCG Supply Chain (Planning, DP, Customer Service, Logistics)
- Experience on SAP R/3, ERP, APO
- Cross functional business process knowledge
- People Management
PREFERRED
- Master of Business Administration.
- Unilever Business Knowledge
- Special studies in Supply Chain related subjects.
Experience Required:
(Please detail essential and desirable experience, including no. of years.)
ESSENTIAL
- 2-3 Years in Supply Chain operations
- Customer Service, Planning experience
PREFERRED
- FMCG experience
Travel:
(Please make it clear if the job will require travel within the country or abroad and give an idea of how often the candidate will need to be away from home.)
- Based out of HO
Contacts:
(Please list any internal and external contacts arising from the job.)
Internal:
- Logistics, Demand planning functions
- Supply chain functions at other Unilever sites.
- CD / BB / CM Teams
- Finance Team
- Regional teams (Category SC and SM)
External:
- Product suppliers.