Supply Planning Beauty & Wellbeing Manager Brazil

Unilever is currently hiring for a Supply Planning Beauty & Wellbeing Manager Brazil

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JOB PURPOSE

The Supply Planning role is responsible for ensuring consistent/perfect service to our customers by solving short- and mid-term supply challenges. Being a complexity champion, planner uses continuous improvement and digital solutions to step-up business delivery. Armed with a problem-solving mindset and technological dexterity, the planner practices "solve it once and for all' motto in order to spend time on more value adding tasks.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Accountable for creating the supply plan, implementing the supply by collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, and managing exceptions to proactively mitigate risks;
• Provide feedback to Demand Planners on risks and opportunities;
• Leader of a team that perform the following activities for Beauty & Wellbeing Brazil: MPS, MRP, Line schedule, partnering third party manufacturers planning and DRP (shipment plan to DCs to dynamically meet customers’ orders);
• Responsible for leading Demand-Supply Review meetings;
• Monitor and action waste prevention – Finished Goods, Packing and Raw;
• Manage crisis – Product availability, Quality issues, microbiological issues, etc.;
• Responsible to inform Demand Planning about stock unavailability;
• Define inventory and distribution policy guidelines and model plans according to targets;
• Collaborate with innovation planning team in the Business Unit, providing inputs during innovation and strategic/VIP projects mainly providing inputs about phasein/phase out plans, portfolio changes/relaunch, RPM balancing to assure zero waste;
• Interacts with Logistics (allocation and transportation) team, Logistics Operations Planning team (LOP) , DC team (e.g. to review and monitor DC occupation, Invoice release and hold etc);
• Discuss issues and constraints with Customer Excellence team and Logistics team during the execution of the monthly plans.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Planning Mastery (MPS, MRP, LS, DRP)
• Inventory management
• Problem Solving
• Scenario and Exception Based Planning
• Data Driven Decision Making
• Digital Mindset (to use & deploy Planning tools – e.g Kinaxis)
• Fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese, both written and spoken.

Skills

• Effective Communication
• Change Management Agent
• Agile & Response approach
• E2E SC Leadership
• Business Collaboration.

Leadership

• You are an inclusive motivator of people. Your team delivers with real passion, growing and learning from each other whilst delivering quick wins.
• You are still responsible for your own results and as a manager, you also need to motivate others to deliver with passion, creating an inclusive and engaging climate around you. You can balance challenges with support and coaching.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants 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.