EU Hub Supply Planner

21 Minutes ago • 2-5 Years

Job Summary

Job Description

This role involves planning a portfolio of products to ensure continuous supply to the business, adhering to financial and compliance standards. Key responsibilities include generating supply plans, managing the Open Order Book, liaising with market contacts to understand requirements, identifying and resolving supply/demand imbalances, and optimizing stock levels. The role also involves collaborating with NPI teams, managing master data, and ensuring new product launches are on time. The role requires 2-5 years of experience in supply planning within an FMCG or Pharmaceutical business.
Must have:
  • Generate supply plans with production sites.
  • Manage Open Order Book.
  • Identify and resolve supply/demand imbalances.
  • Optimize stock holding levels.
  • Manage master data.
Good to have:
  • SAP knowledge – use of ECC, APO and IBP.
  • Experience managing a complex multi sourced SKU portfolio.
  • Demonstrable Excel skills.

Job Details

Job Description

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us.

Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people by growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of.

In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.

This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.

Job Purpose

The purpose of this role is to plan the assigned portfolio of products in order to ensure continuity of supply to the business at optimum financials and within compliance standards, following global agreed supply planning processes.

Key Responsibilities

Supply Planning Processes

  • Generate supply plans with production sites to deliver stock to support sales forecasts. Ensure on-time order placement aligned with contractual agreement. Management of Open Order Book, ensuring alignment with manufacturing production plans.

  • Liaise within market contacts to understand the forecasted requirements, NPIs and promotional activities, seasonality and manage supply to achieve and maintain high levels of customer service whilst meeting inventory targets.

  • Proactively identify key supply / demand imbalance, assess the risk, run root cause analysis, evaluate options and propose solutions. Ensure corrective / preventive actions in place. Review weekly supply issues (Open out of stocks, predicted stock outs), and provide necessary input for weekly SCIM process

  • Develop, agree with a supplier/ Scheduler and implement flexible repeated schedule (FRS) options / campaigns and use it to optimize production line outcome

  • Manage supply planning horizon, outside the manufacturing Lead Time, ensuring weekly load levelling of supply plan against available capacity and inventory targets, considering agreed campaigns (Global/ internal sites)

  • Lead weekly review meetings with suppliers as per standard process to ensure effective management of short / medium term supply period.

  • Manage longer term capacity plan with monthly review process and review of incoming/outgoing demand

Master data, Artwork & Inventory

  • Optimise stock holding levels within the total supply chain through a detailed understanding of the key planning parameters and end-to-end process (safety stock, lead times, supply reliability, demand variability, service objectives etc)

  • Liaise with hubs master data team to provide input with the correct supply planning parameters set up of SKUs. Be responsible for the regular review and maintenance and improvement plan of basic supply planning parameters to reflect current supply chain performance indicators and protect customer service level targets

  • Work closely with NPI teams to deliver new products on time and support growth & innovation for Haleon

Knowledge/ Education / Previous Experience Required

Minimum Level of Education

  • Graduate with a degree in science, IT, engineering or business or proven experience in supply planning

Area of Specialisation

  • Supply Planning, Logistics, Operations Management

Minimum Level of Job-Related Experience

  • 2-5 years experience in Supply planning within a FMCG / Pharmaceutical business

  • SAP knowledge – use of ECC, APO and IBP

  • Ability to work and manipulate data sets

  • Demonstrated experience of managing a complex multi sourced SKU portfolio and Order Book Management

  • Demonstrated experience of managing supply issues and find and propose solutions to mitigate service disruption.

  • Demonstration of understanding of using planning parameters to improve service and inventory levels.

  • Demonstrable Excel skills

Care to join us. Find out what life at Haleon is really like www.haleon.com/careers/

At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We're striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

As you apply, we will ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. We want to have an opportunity to consider a diverse pool of qualified candidates and this information will assist us in meeting that objective and in understanding how well we are doing against our inclusion and diversity ambitions. We would really appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete it. Rest assured, Hiring Managers do not have access to this information and we will treat your information confidentially.

Haleon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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About The Company

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer healthcare company. Shaped by all of us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for millions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re building together. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us.

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