Personal Care Integrated Planning - Exports and Supply Planning  Manager

ABOUT UNILEVER

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At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

Who You Are & What You’ll Do:

• You’re a leader: You will be a visible leader in the Supply Chain community. Your actions will have a sizeable impact on the end-to-end value chain and help fuel growth in the export markets. You will influence your colleagues and utilize world-class systems and tools to drive step-changes in supply planning performance

• You’re a dot connector: With an innate sense of how things interlock, you will be able to bridge the needs of different functions and expertly understand where situations should be escalated for mitigation

• You’re a strategy guru: You will always be on your toes thinking of a Plan B & be ready to execute when needed. You will be an innovative thinker, coming up with solutions to old and new problems. You’ll use your highly developed influencing skills to inspire and engage the cross-functional team to execute

• You love to win and have fun doing it: You play a critical and extremely tangible role in delivering results. Your drive to see success is fueled by a positive, purpose-driven outlook

Strategy Development and Execution

• E2E execution of Supply Planning Team Strategy for all locally produced FG

• Responsible for seamless Demand Supply Reconciliation (DSR), Capacity Planning and S&OP process in the markets

• Leads DSR sourcing and capacity planning for locally produced FGs to ensure the right stock and capacity are available to support the business plan

• Ensures operational excellence and solution management for any supply risk & issues

Reporting and Continuous Improvement

• Oversee total Personal Care achievement of the category KPIs in Customer Service, Inventory Levels, Waste, Cost Minimization

• Deliver 100% OTIF of Import/Export Innovations and growth plan collaboratively with Innovation Planning Team.

• Ensure compliance by associated countries to SC/CO procedures and policies (Service Level Agreements, Working Capital, sourcing capabilities etc.)

• Drive continuous improvement & consistency of standardized processes for BPC Export Planning Process

• Manages a team of exports customer service executives and supply planners who are responsible for each market FG portfolio

Partnership and Collaboration

• Collaborates and maintains high level engagement with strategic suppliers.

• Works closely with 3rd party manufacturing (3PM) procurement to ensure proper levels of inventory to achieve the plan while ensuring inventory targets are still being met

• Inputs into the sourcing projects based on the existing supply network

Process & Technology Management

• Ensure process hygiene and lead technology transformation where relevant

• Defines new processes and improvement areas for supply and exports planning

• Owns all relevant master data requirements relating to supply planning.

Talent catalyst

• Responsible for growing and nurturing talent including succession planning ensuring organization is fit to win short and long term

• Key representative of PC Integrated Planning within organization

Challenges

• Managing the interface between Global and Greater Asia LTCP, MSOs on allocation fulfillment

• Managing conflicting priorities

• Managing a high rate of innovation, number of SKU’s and complexity

• Executing projects within cost, scope, time and performance parameters

What You’ll Need to Succeed:

• 5 or more years combined experience in Supply Chain, specific in supply and demand planning and export related areas

• Demonstrated analytical and conceptual problem-solving ability; excellent oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills

• Ability to multi-task, meet tight deadlines and work under pressure with autonomy

• Ability to manage multiple projects and work through ambiguity.

• The ability to effectively lead and engage cross functional global teams and a willingness to take responsibility and accountability

• Demonstrated self-starter with the ability to deliver results in a lean, agile organization and able to adapt to changing priorities

• Have strong communication skills with an ability to deliver complex information to a variety of audiences with impact.

• Understanding of key financials, P&L and network design models

LEADERSHIP

• Care Deeply: Cares deeply about how customers experience
  our brands every day, everywhere; about our people’s growth and development and our impact on the planet. Cares about our performance, to a point where it hurts when we don’t win

• Focus On What Counts: Ruthlessly prioritizes what really, really matters, and allowing us to do better on fewer things. We set clear and stretching goals and recognise maximum performance impact

• Stay Three Steps Ahead: Thinks boldly and creatively to make breakthroughs in performance. We are always curious and confident ─ anticipating and staying ahead of customer needs and external trends to beat the competition

• Deliver with Excellence: Delivers everything we do with excellence and pace. We take personal ownership and hold each other to account – always finding a way to do what we’ve said we will do

ARE YOU INTERESTED?

Please apply via this portal as e-mail applications will not be processed. By applying to this role, you are confirming that you have informed your Line Manager and that you are at a point in your career with Unilever where it is appropriate for you to be applying for other positions.   

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. 

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment journey. Should you require additional information or reasonable adjustments to allow you to present your best self during this process, please contact your Talent Partner Kate Cruz at Kate.Cruz@unilever.com.

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.