Demand & Supply Planner

About the Position

We are Reckitt, home to the world's best-loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose is 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.

Demand & Supply Planner

City: Bucharest, Romania

We are looking for a Demand & Supply Planner to join our team in Bucharest. Your overall objective will be to manage the demand and supply chain to ensure product availability while maintaining optimal stock levels. This role requires close cross-functional interaction with Customer Service, Sales, Logistics, and Finance and Marketing.

Responsibilities

• Providing 52-week demand to factories
• Owner and organizer of the monthly Forecast Meetings with sales and marketing, analyzing data and proposing forecast updates
• Responsible for finished goods inventories and developing/implementing projects to reduce inventory levels
• Overall management of the incoming goods, supply chain, using the business enterprise system
• Responsible for external co-packer supply
• Managing accurately the Rapid Response, ECC, BW systems input data
• Managing effective relationships with increasing numbers of suppliers/distributors
• Ensuring product availability, no out-of-stocks
• Maintaining Pack Fill and Order Fill rates at company standards
• Updating forecast in Rapid Response, 12 months rolling forecast at least, creating promo codes, updating cross-references
• Ensuring data in the system are correct and updated
• Planning and analyzing the weekly production schedule
• Uploading forecast in Rapid Response on a weekly basis
• Managing SKU’s portfolio (NPD’s/EPD’s/Promotional items)
• Following up on new product launches from decision to arrival in DC
• Filling in Product Change Management file with the SKU changes, logistical data, and transition dates estimations
• Acquiring logistics data from factory
• Maintaining parameters in ECC and Rapid Response for new SKUs and EPDs and updating forecast in Rapid Response once code exists in local system
• Monitoring and coordinating with factories, regional QI, local logistics, and regulatory teams the COA release process to ensure products are released on time
• Maintaining the lowest possible inventory level, without risk in service to customers
• Creating inventory and provision file for RO/BG and engaging with sales and marketing for solutions to deplete the stocks (meetings organized by supply planner)
• Challenging SNP parameters (MOQ's, coverage, etc.) with factories to achieve the lowest inventories possible
• Informing sales and customer service weekly about product availability of all products, remaining promotions, and timing of new launches
• Weekly OOS/Distress report
• Providing training to newcomers

Requirements

• Good knowledge of the supply chain model, supporting a good understanding of possible issues/opportunities
• Experience in a similar position in a fast-paced environment
• Good understanding of planning systems
• Proactive approach with the ability to take ownership
• Ability to effectively manage projects and relationships with local partners, contractors
• Fluent Romanian and English

Skills for Success

• Supply Chain Management
• Business Partnership
• Collaboration and partnership building
• Relationship Management
• Business acumen
• Productivity management
• Improve business processes
• Advanced Analytics
• Data Analytics
• Supply Chain Planning
• Logistics Management

We Offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way.

We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans, we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognize, appreciate, and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay-for-performance philosophy.

About the Company

We recognize that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; color, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.

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