Primary responsibilities:

- Ensure compliance with safety standards, regulatory requirements, organizational policies, and standard operating procedures across all planning activities.

- Supervising end to end Demand and Material planning function.

- Prepare and review Rough-Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP) to identify capacity constraints or underutilization and recommend appropriate balancing actions.

- Support Annual Budgeting, Long-Range Capacity Planning, and business planning activities by providing planning assumptions, demand scenarios, and capacity assessments.

- Ensure timely release of production plans in alignment with customer demand, and manufacturing capacity.

- Coordinate with Procurement to ensure uninterrupted availability of raw materials and packaging materials in line with production requirements.

- Monitor planning execution through key performance indicators Plan vs. Actual Performance, Capacity Utilization, and Production Adherence or any other Matrix required by management and implement corrective actions where required.

- To review periodically for safety stock levels, reorder points, and procurement type and recommend purchasing for appropriate actions.

- Identify potential stock-out risks, supply disruptions, and material shortages, and implement preventive and contingency plans to minimize business impact.

- Analyse RM/PM inventory to identify excess, obsolete, slow-moving, and non-moving materials, and drive cross-functional actions for inventory optimization and liquidation.

- Support New Product Development (NPD), technology transfers, and product launches by ensuring planning readiness and timely material availability.

- Conduct planning scenario analysis and business impact assessments to support sourcing decisions, supply continuity, and operational improvements.

- Ensure timely preparation and submission of planning reports, dashboards, MIS, and analytical insights to support management decision-making.

- Drive continuous improvement initiatives by leveraging SAP, Power BI, advanced planning systems, automation, and digital tools to improve planning efficiency and visibility.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve Order-to-Cash (O2C), Source-to-Pay (S2P), inventory management, and overall supply chain performance.

- Lead, coach, and develop the Planning team by setting performance objectives, reviewing KPIs, providing regular feedback, and building functional capabilities.

- Identify operational risks, recommend mitigation strategies, and support business continuity planning to ensure resilient supply chain operations.

- Undertake any additional responsibilities or special projects assigned by management in line with business requirements.

Key Result Areas:

- Achievement of Inventory Targets

- Customer OTIF as per target.

- Plan adherence

- Ensuring uninterrupted material supply for production.

- Adherence to policies and regulations of organization.