General Mills
Location
Mumbai | India
Job description
Position Title: Supply Planner, Pet
Function/Group: Logistics
Country: India
Location: Mumbai
Recommended Level:PG 60
Job Type: Full time
Role Reports to:PET Manager
Geographical Scope of the Role - Location:Regional
Percentage of travel required:0%
Job Overview:
This role is responsible for supporting the balancing of demand and inventory information against capacity realities to determine net requirements and production quantities by location in Long range. Process responsibility includes supporting the setting of inventory targets, Distribution Requirements Planning, Volume Planning, & Capacity Planning. Primary responsibility is to build supply plans that support demand while enabling commercial & supply chain decisions with cost-benefit analysis.
This role specifically supports PET's growing international business ambitions. The individual in this role will gain the leadership experience of leading cross-functional teams in a global matrix organization; this includes working with global suppliers, international business segment leaders, and international stakeholders. A couple of the specific supply chain capabilities one can expect to develop in this role are initiative management and business partnership. This role affords the opportunity to develop cultural agility and empathy while demonstrating an ability to drive results across markets/segments.
Job Description:
80% Distribution Requirements, Volume, & Capacity Planning:
· Manage strategic planning from months 4-36 in Planning systems.
· Run scenarios based on total capacity, net requirements, inventory targets, segmentation strategies, and volume plans across locations based on cost-benefit analysis
· Support execution against selected Supply Plan scenarios that balances constraints in consideration of Capacity, Distribution Requirements, and Volume Planning
· Partner with (distribution) Network Management to support mid to long-term distribution strategies
· Support mid to long-term volume plans (production volume)
· Build annual supply strategies to meet financial, operational, & business targets of each market he/she supports
· Balance supply plan & drive adherence according to Shared Resources market supply agreements
· Partners closely with Demand Planners to understand levers and make decisions regarding supply chain and business trade-offs
Processes and Procedures:
· Monitor & drive improvement through KPI (Key Performance Indicators) tracking to reconcile performance against plans to drive ongoing improvements in costs, time, capacity, and asset utilization
· Perform root cause analysis for key service issues, as well as share output with appropriate leadership
20% Stakeholder Management:
· Maintain and develop relationships with stakeholders, encourage and enhance cross function collaborations
· Build relationships with Brand Planners and Product Platform Managers & understand all market supply agreements supported by his/her supply chain
· Build relationship with finite scheduler, deployment, network manager and material planner, ESC (External Supply Chain) and Region Planning COE
Education & Experience :
· Bachelor's degree in any major
· 5+ years related experience
· Basic knowledge of demand planning processes, principles, and acumen to push integrated strategies that consider impact of demand through supply chain
· 2 years+ of experience as Logistics Planner or Supply Planner
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
· Knowledge of end-to-end supply chain planning process
Ability to utilize visualization and communication tools
Effective communication and influencing skills
Planning system knowledge is required e.g. OMP, Logility, APO etc
Competencies:
Engage with purpose by building relationships
· Build relationships within the function and across the Supply Chain and collaborate to make decisions and achieve goals
· Build trust by involving others in issues that affect them and communicating openly and honestly
Demonstrate agility by showing curiosity and being culturally agile
· Ensure the team challenges the status quo
· Ensure the team learns from mistakes and failures
· Be self-aware and humble
· Value differences and treat them as an opportunity to gain diverse perspectives and broaden thinking
Leverage standardized processes
· Ensure teams adhere to safety and other existing processes to produce consistent, repeatable results
· Ensure teams use continuous Improvement and other best practices to drive food and human safety and zero-loss
· Ensure teams leverage opportunities to use consistent processes across organizational boundaries
· Identify and remove barriers that prevent teams from achieving zero loss
Leverage expertise by being broad and going deep
· Understand the General Mills business and how the Supply Chain delivers business value
· Help the team understand how the integrated Supply Chain delivers value to customers
· Demonstrate a working knowledge of core Supply Chain capabilities
· Help the team understand the interdependencies within the Supply Chain
Seize opportunities by thinking outside-In
· Take a broad perspective when making decisions and solving problems
· Ensure priorities are consistent with functional direction and goals and reflect an understanding of the external business environment
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