Concurrent Supply Planner
Location
Uxbridge, Greater London | United Kingdom
Job description
Great things are happening in the Europe and Australia (EUAU) region. Each day, our 2,500 plus colleagues bring their passion to our offices, manufacturing sites, R&D center, and commercial/distributor markets across Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. We are energized by over 150 years of bringing people together with the food they love. With beloved brands Old El Paso, Häagen-Dazs, Nature Valley, Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Jus-Rol, Fibre One, Latina Fresh and more, we are on a mission to become the undisputed growth leader in food for EUAU. In a world that’s ever-changing, we look to stay ahead and seek people who share our love of food and are hungry to shape the future.
What your role is
General Mills EUAU is embarking on an exciting journey to transform its supply chain planning systems, processes, and capabilities (internally referenced as IPT: Integrated planning transformation).
This creates a new and exciting opportunity for a Concurrent Supply Planner for our EUAU plants. This role for General Mills International will be pivotal in implementing the concurrent supply planning capability in EUAU and bringing supply planning to the next level.
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. Primary responsibility is to build supply plans that support demand while enabling commercial & supply chain decisions with cost-benefit analysis. Process responsibility includes supporting mid to long term production and volume planning, setting inventory targets, balancing inventory across the network and scenario planning.
Key Responsibilities
- Owns operational planning in week 5-13 and strategic planning from months 4-36
- Partners closely with markets, supply planners, plant and OBMs to understand levers and make decisions regarding supply chain and business trade-offs
- Run scenarios based on total capacity, net requirements, inventory targets, segmentation strategies, and volume plans across locations based on cost-benefit analysis
- Drive execution against selected supply plan scenarios that balances constraints in consideration of capacity, distribution requirements, and volume planning
- Partners with the business and plants to understand overall objectives and capacity and resource constraints, along with changes to network realities and footprint
- Partner with Logistics 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
- Monitor & drive improvement through KPI tracking to reconcile performance against plans to drive ongoing improvements in costs, time, capacity, and asset utilization
What you will bring to the team
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree, or local equivalent, required
- 5+ years of relevant experience in supply chain planning, forecasting process, basic operations, inventory planning, and statistical analysis
- Good understanding of end-to-end supply chain operational processes
- Effective communication and influencing skills
- High learning agility to move at the fast pace of this transformation.
- Ability to utilize visualization and communication tools
- Fluent in English
Preferred Qualifications
- Fluent in French/Spanish
- Previous experience in production and capacity planning
- Basic knowledge of demand planning processes, principles and acumen to push integrated strategies that consider impact of demand through supply chain
Other Considerations
- Significant travel will be required at the beginning (approximately first 3 months) of the assignment. After that moderate travel (10-20%) is expected.
What you get from us
- A Certified Great Place to Work, Certified Best UK Workplace and Best Workplace for Wellbeing & Women
- Flexible and employee-focused work culture
- Equal Employment opportunities
- Competitive package with benefits
At General Mills, we are committed to recruiting ,retaining, developing, and advancing an inclusive workforce that reflects the diversity of the consumers and communities we serve globally. Come and be part of our team's journey. Hungry to Shape the Future.
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