Job Description

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.

Supply Chain

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

Dive into the dynamic world of supply chain management as an Assistant Demand & Supply Planning Manager at Reckitt. This role is to manage categories commercial end to end planning, to deliver business objectives and needs.

Your responsibilities

. Generates forecasts by reviewing historical trends, promotion calendar, and activities available from commercial team
. Drive discussion in meetings with commercial team within the S&OP process to produce unbiased forecast, gap identification or closure with sound facts and communicate supply constraints or business risks
. To challenge forecasts when necessary based on trend analysis, MAPE & BIAS data, promotional and media phasing etc
. Updates, produces and publishes reports including the monthly forecast accuracy report, S&OP Gap initial and final reports. Provide SKU volumes to Finance for Business Forecasts and Plan
. Ensure out of plan issues are communicated in advance using the S&OP process to allow business alignment with relevant action points to address the issues
. Ensuring business waste is kept minimal for product relaunches or promotions
. Ensure agreed forecasts are communicated to suppliers/intercompany source points via company defined system (such as SNP, RapidResponse etc) for stock planning
. Plan replenishment of product to maintain supply service levels manage the local S&OP process for defined brands and categories
. Plan the reworking of promotional products with third party embellishment team
. Plan the Packaging materials of promotional products to deliver on time in right quantities
. Plan the Supply Finished Goods purchased from suppliers/intercompany source points to achieve the desired service level, and manage related issues.
. Work with warehouse / logistic in ensuring stock arrival and availability
. Manage inventory controls and levels conform within budgets and forecasts
. Ownership of planning master accuracy for planned materials
. Business related tasks that required from planning.

The experience we're looking for

. University degree related to the field of Supply Chain or Engineering
. Minimum 3 years experience in supply/demand planning and determine priorities in a highly pressured working environment
. Proficient in Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office applications
. Knowledge on Kinaxis is preferable, SAP ECC is MUST.
. Customer centric and with strong customer service mindset
. Highly analytical and fact-based decision making
. Able to work independently, think logically, challenge status quo, and consistently seek to improve current way of working to seek of productivity
. Able to manage multiple priorities in a rapid change environment
. Team working ability
. High levels of motivation to get the job done
. Good understanding of the FMCG nature and business
. Good interpersonal skills and strong command of both written and spoken English.

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.