Overview
Reporting into the Supply Chain planning Director, the role is accountable for the overall Cross Category planning Cluster, including Supply planning, Distribution & Material planning. Role will also directly manage the Supply planning team
This role is the primary point of contact / main interface between the GBS Cluster and the RemainCo Regional planning lead (L11 / Director) to ensure market plans are adopted, service levels and working capital targets are met.
This role will be recruited into Global Business Services and as such there will be a level of initial ambiguity in activity as the processes are adopted across during transition. It is expected that the role will therefore require an initial flexibility of approach as processes are primarily fixed & then shifted and improved over following strategy cycles.
Responsibilities
- Leads the Cross category planning processes for Global Business Services
- Manages the GBS cross category Cluster team
- Works with the RemainCo organization to ensure delivery of AOP (Annual Operating Plan) targets
- Accountable for delivery of key KPI's (Key Performance Indicators) (eg Service / Inventory targets / Obsolescence)
- Works with the BU & contributes to ensuring an effective monthly S&OP (Sales and Operating Plan) cycle
- Integration point between Market and GBS – represents GBS at strategic meetings with the market
- Accountable for production plans creation. Ensure delivery of an optimised cross-site manufacturing supply plan, that can be scheduled, to maintain the target stock holding of all SKU's (stock keeping unit) to deliver service to Business Units's
- Accountable to create constrained capacity production plans within the planning horizon and escalation whenever needed
- Accountable for the review of detailed line scheduling plans
- Highlight Risk, work on mitigation plans and escalate to RemainCo lead if required
- Accountable for inventory and business waste projections with the market.
- Accountable for effective & timely Master data management
- Accountable for New innovation pipeline management
- Responsible to prepare, contribute and execute Supply Review for Platform/Hub as part of the weekly Sales &Operating Execution (IS&OP) and monthly Sales & Operating Plan (S&OP) cycle and SMR (Supply Monthly Review)
- Manage GCC Supply Planning, Innovation Coordinators & MDM Team for the Category (8 - 10 Direct reports)
Qualifications
- Engineering Degree
- 10+ Years of Experience.
- Highly Experienced in all Planning aspects
- Line management experience
- High level of knowledge & understanding of the end to end supply systems & processes
- Proficiency in product category planning
- Strong collaboration skills and an ability to work with other functions / departments to address critical challenges as a result of market change or changes in technical, manufacturing or End to end planning processes.
- Strong analytical skills with a keen eye for detail, able to interrogate data and produce detailed outputs.
- Understanding the links between production plans, plant AOP's, productivity initiatives and customer service
- Team lead experience
- Problem solving know-how
- Analytic skills
- Masters planning methodologies like heuristics, optimization etc
- Very good collaboration skills and ability to interact with multi-cultural teams spread across geographies
