Supply Planning Lead - London, United Kingdom - Unilever

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Supply Planning Manager (Maternity Cover) - Elida Beauty**
Work Location - London

WL - 2A

Who we arewe are Elida Beauty
Elida Beauty is a very exciting new beauty and personal care business within Unilever.

We re-found iconic brands by remixing them for today's generation, making them even bigger beauty hits than they were first time around.

Our remixes democratize beauty, because we want everyone on the 'beauty dance floor' with our top-quality products at a great value.


Driven by our colleague's creativity, agility and close connection with consumers, customers, and suppliers we are able to unleash the true potential of our loved brands with a fresh start.

We 'Re-Found' them using a start-up mentality that always 'finds a way'.

Our 'no silos', one team approach drives both personal and business growth so that together we deliver outcomes that are music to the ears of consumers, customers, colleagues and the planet alike.


Your Role & Key Responsibilities


Project Dragonfly and Butterfly look at creating value for UL by carving out a perimeter of currently unfocused brands in NA, UK and EU with a view to create growth.


We are looking for an experienced Supply Planning Manager who works with her/his team, with a strong growth mindset and a can-do culture of doing what it takes to win.

We're looking for someone who thrives in balancing
brand, consumer, customers, with the ambition to deliver a substantial step up in profitable growth of the current perimeter.


As the Supply Planning Manager, you will play a crucial role in estabilishing Master Production Schedule (MPS), Capacity Planning, Business Waste review and Supplier collaboration processes.

You will collaborate with Demand planning team on S&OP to support the commercial strategy and vision with the capacity allocation.

Your first priority will be ensuring a seamless supply for the marekt with efficient stock management and excellent service levels.

There will be plenty of opportunities to work on new initiatives/experiments across supply chain as well as business functions as Elida evolves into bigger company


Your Key Responsibilities
Strategy Development & Execution

  • E2E execution of Supply Planning Team Strategy for all FG
  • Responsible for seamless Demand Supply Reconciliation (DSR), Capacity Planning and S&OP process in the markets
  • Define inventory and safety stock norms for Rewired Elida Beauty Supply Chain basis the segmentation approach
  • Defines and develops constrained Finished Goods (FG) Forecast into the business plans
  • Ensures the constrained FG forecast get tranformed into a supply / requirement plan
  • Leads DSR sourcing and capacity planning for FGs to ensure the right stock and capacity are available to support the business plan
  • Focus on long term capacity planning and create visibility on risks & opportunities
  • Leads Supplier Collaboartion with strategic suppliers.
  • Ensures operational excellence and solution management for any supply risk & issues.
  • Exceed customer expectations by ensuring FG availability delivered through on time / in full order fulfilment
Reporting and Continuous Improvement

  • Ensures Capacity, stocks and waste reporting with continuous improvement
  • Owns and monitors Capacity, Stocks, Waste reporting and continuous improvement of Service Levels, Stocks, Waste.
  • Works closely with Planning Control Tower teams for planning activities/projects
  • Manages a team of supply planners who are responsible for each market FG portfolio
Partnership & Collaboration

  • Collaborates and maintains high level engagement with strategic suppliers.
  • Collaborates with demand planning, customer development (CD) and marketing to incorporate key marketing and trade initiatives into the supply forecast
  • 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 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 Elida Beauty Limited within organization as well as externally across various key stakeholders and organizational bodies.

Requirements:


  • Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university, preferably in business, finance or supply chain management.
  • 5+ years of experience in Supply Chain (ideally across Plan,Service,Deliver )
  • Previous operational experience in supply planning is required
  • Demonstrated
    analytical and conceptual problemsolving ability; excellent **oral and written communi
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