Assistant Supply Planning Manager, Nutrition

About the Position

We are Reckitt, home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

We are currently seeking an Assistant Supply Planning Manager, Nutrition to join our team in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This role is integral to our Supply Chain team, ensuring the efficient and responsive supply planning process across defined brands and categories within the Malaysia/Singapore Nutrition business.

Responsibilities

Supply & Inventory Planning

• Ensure timely communication of agreed forecasts to suppliers/intercompany sources via systems like Excel SNP or Rapid Response (Kinaxis).
• Plan replenishment to maintain service levels and avoid stockouts or excess inventory.
• Manage inventory levels within budget and forecast parameters, ensuring minimal waste during product relaunches or promotions.
• Ownership of end-to-end replenishment process from net requirement planning to purchase orders, shipment from factories, warehouse put away until stock available for sales.
• Monitor and collaborate with local forwarding agent to ensure shipment clearance on time.

Forecasting & Demand Planning

• Generate forecasts by reviewing historical trends, promotion calendar, and activities available from commercial team.
• Drive discussion in meetings with commercial team within the S&OP process to produce unbiased forecast, gap identification or closure with sound facts and communicate supply constraints or business risks.
• Challenge forecast assumptions using trend analysis, MAPE, BIAS, and promotional/media phasing data.

Promotional & Packaging Planning

• Coordinate with third-party embellishment teams for reworking promotional products.
• Plan packaging material requirements to ensure timely availability in correct quantities.

Reporting & Communication

• Prepare and publish monthly reports (Production Accuracy, inventory, Slob report).
• Provide forecasted volumes to Finance for business planning and budgeting.
• Communicate supply constraints and risks proactively to ensure business alignment and timely resolution.
• Master data accuracy for planned materials in system.

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Work closely with commercial, finance, supply, and logistics teams to ensure seamless execution of plans.
• Support business-related planning tasks as required by the Head of Planning.

Requirements

• University degree related to the field of Supply Chain, Business Engineering.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in supply/demand planning and determine priorities in a highly pressured working environment.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office applications.
• Knowledge on SAP APO, SNP, Kinaxis is an added advantage.
• Highly analytical and fact-based decision making.
• Able to work independently, think logically, challenge status quo, and consistently seek to improve current way of working to seek of productivity.
• Able to manage multiple priorities in a rapid change environment.
• Good interpersonal skills and strong command of both written and spoken English.

We Offer

• Inclusion and support at every step of your career journey.
• Investment in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program, and life insurance.
• A range of other benefits in line with the local market.
• Opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes.
• Short-term incentives to recognize, appreciate, and reward outstanding results.
• Rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

About the Company

Reckitt is a global team united by our purpose to protect, heal, and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are committed to equality and recognize that great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. If this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.

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