UI South Asia Supply Planning Assistant Manager

About Unilever International -

Unilever International is Unilever’s White Space Arm of Unilever and a decacorn in-making. UI has scaled 10x since its launch in 2012 and with a turnover of 1.4 billion € in 2024 it is one of the fastest growing and most profitable sizable businesses of Unilever. UI caters to the last billion consumers in underserved markets, consumer segments, and channels across 200+ countries and all Unilever categories. As intrapreneurs we deploy an agile innovation model that enables more than 1 launch per day. We introduce Unilever’s brands into white space geographies like Korea, Pacific Islands, Mongolia, and spearhead launches of iconic brands like Dove, Vaseline, Knorr, Surf, TRESemme into big markets like U.S, China, Europe, & Asia.

Crafting product innovations for niches like Corporate Partnership serving Hospitality & Travel retail, marketing to institutional partners like the United Nations, and seeding Unilever brands to overseas diaspora who crave for a taste of their familiar home brands.  As well as premium product segments, on-trend formats and D2C innovations globally. We navigate complex and dynamic global regulatory landscapes to ensure product compliance and EHS assurance across Personal Care, Beauty & Wellbeing, Homecare, Nutrition & Ice Creams.

Singapore is our global hub leading strategy, marketing thinking, seeding plans, and alignment with the global categories and supply chain. We have a global presence with UI hubs all over the world. R&D is primarily spread across India (Mumbai & Bangalore) & Korea with some resources present globally. 

About the Role:
The role of UI South Asia Supply Planning Assistant Manager is to optimize inventory, service and cost while dealing with volatility. Lead must be the supply chain face for the relevant category and collaborate with customer marketing, planning, and sales teams continuously. He/ She will be leading the team of central supply and network planners and branch customer service team to bring in efficiencies and manage disruptions. Lead must work with planning excellence, demand planning and distribution planning to implement new technologies in planning and customer service. He/she should lead supply chain strategy to build an agile, efficient, collaborative, and aligned end to end network. Provide leadership and inspiration to drive cost savings projects. He/ She will have to collaborate with all verticals and be the supply chain point of contact for the category and other supply chain teams.

Business Title: UI South Asia Supply Planning Assistant Manager

Location: Mumbai HO

Key Accountabilities:
• Manage the supply planning processes, focusing on short term and medium planning and inventory management of finished goods.
• Review Short/Medium term master production scheduling and material requirement planning.
• Review medium term demand and capacity to identify and unlock any capacity issues
• Partner with SUs and procurement teams to deliver high service levels at optimal cost, identify and implement capacity unlock and saving projects
• Partner with logistics team to find unlocks for support high service level, support in digitization and drive efficiencies.
• Drive various Supply Planning projects like simplification, running strategy, saving ideas etc
• Work with Supply Chain finance, procurement and SUs to find opportunities to optimize TPs
• Reduce business waste by strengthening MRP process, regular inventory reviews, managing transitions efficiently and robust Supply and Demand Reviews.
• Work with HUL planning team to improve processes and collaboration between teams

Key KPIs:
• Service-DR, Order to invoice LT
• Inventory- Value, MAT
• Cost – Business Waste, CU%, Spot % (Logistics)
• Master Hygiene
• Digitization

Key Stakeholders:
• Category Teams- Marketing, Customer Marketing
• Factory teams
• Customer Development- -CCMs, ASMs
• Planning- Central Demand and Distribution Planning teams, Planning Excellence,
• Delivery- Branch Fulfilment teams and Central Logistics
• Category & SC Finance
• Procurement and R&D.

Experience Requirement:
Min 8-10 yrs of experience in Supply Planning/ Demand Planning /Customer Service/ Supply chain other verticals

Educational Qualification:
Graduate in Engineering / Finance /MBA in Supply Chain Management