EU Hub Supply Planner

Job Description

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

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