Unilever - Assistant Manager - Finished Goods Planner

Key Accountabilities:

- Planning for Nutrition

- Responsible for release of 19 weeks rolling plan and ensure hygiene of the same

- Collaborate with the planning team / Customer service / distribution team/Exports Team to ensure delivery of customer service, stock and cost requirements

- Work closely with the Warehouse & Distribution Manager to ensure delivery of customer service, stock and cost requirements.

- Work closely with distribution to forecast distance travelled and CPT and deliver targets while liaising with the appropriate planning teams (site and third party) to overcome short/medium term constraints

- Identify potential bottlenecks on finished goods production, including with key suppliers, and propose ways to resolve them at optimal cost (Short and medium term DSR)

- Work closely with demand planning manager to drive complexity reduction in terms of SKUs and be part of all S&OP discussions.

- Deliver the business supply planning process, particularly the annual supply planning process, to ensure a robust supply plan is issued to the manufacturing sourcing units, third party and sourcing teams for volume and cost planning purposes.

- Manage the stock holding policy in order to meet customer service level targets and Glide path/RDOH targets

- Manages material inventories and material call offs of RM/PM with suppliers within set inventory targets.

- Determines inbound logistics requirements

- Responsible for primary and secondary DRP and execute primary DRP from SU to primary DC's

- Support project teams and ensure appropriate early management rigour in delivering innovation through the wider supply chain. This includes early management of write offs for Finished Goods, raw and packaging materials as a result of new innovation or re-launches (bleed -in/discontinuation).

- Run up/ run down of all materials in times of innovations/promotions to ensure limited business waste and on time availability of new materials