Supply Planning Lead

About Unilever
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Job Purpose
Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. If you love fast-paced environments, are passionate about helping others, and like the sounds of acting as an orchestrator where your impacts will be felt throughout multiple countries then this role is just for you!

What Will Your Main Responsibilities Be

• Developing and leading stock models through supply planning fundamentals and creative solutions to deliver high service level to the market while having optimum stock on hand level of his categories.
• Evaluating demand dynamics on monthly basis for tactics decision making and driving actions
• Create an agile supply planning models to increase responsiveness to the market dynamics to deliver better service to our consumers.
• Unleash his team potentiality, through leading, empowering and coaching.
• Assuring right harmony and high performance are effectively among his team members
• Using WCM approach to develop address key losses and attack highest losses by WCM tools to create a continuous sustainable improvement.
• Apply digital agenda in Supply planning and embed digital ways of working in his team.
• Develop right strategy plan to the factory, to assure right DBNR performance through MPS is applied and cost-efficient factory operations
• SCR lock and sign off monthly shipment plan for customers with demand planning, with smart gap management between unconstrained and constrained figures, with clear identification for risks and create options and opportunities for gap closure.
• Develop IPM model (inventory planning management) with high quality inputs and outputs.
• Manage monthly stocks closing and assure right stock cover against IPM model for FG and RPM.
•  Manage stocks DOH and value to optimize between service level and required closing stocks
•  Deep understanding of analysis of stocks closing and assure right stocks investment to right SKUs according to ABC classifications.
• Assuring right stocks segregation is in place and Drive key actions with different stakeholders to liquidate/ eliminate overstocks and residual stocks.
• Create a success environment within his team through harmony and high-performance standards.
• Assure landing Innovations according to NW OTIF
• Manage RCCP on periodic basis and assure right production leveling is in place, and flag risk zones and capacity investment needed medium and long term

Experiences & Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in Supply chain preferably in FMCG

• Data scientist, digital background, and ability to process massive data into informative view for decision making

• Strong analytical thinking

• Excellent leadership style

• Excellent interpersonal relationship skills. Interact effectively with all levels including other Unilever sites, Supply Chain Planning, manufacturing. Motivate, energize, and foster team activities and relationships. Ability to resolve conflict.

• Problem-solving skills through innovative and creative thinking

• Ability to collaborate effectively within a multifunctional environment

• Strong Leadership skills, preferably including Leading/Managing/Mentoring Others experience • Ability to create a continuous improvement in process and Ways of working.

 • Ability to create solutions and quick decision making through problem solving techniques

• Has change management experience

• High business acumen, and understanding of company/ category P&L.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicates from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.