As a Business Planner in the Supply Chain team, you will be working for specific Category portfolios. 

In this challenging role you will be playing a key role in:

• Top Down Long term planning (5-18 months);
• Capacity planning based on demand uncertainty / scenario planning;
• Demand Supply reconciliation (1-18 month);
• Innovation planning for RSVs and New Products;
• Business Trade offs between Growth Opportunities, Working Capital and Operational Costs.

Furthermore you will be working closely together with the Forecasting Excellence team on Forecasting and continuous improvement, CD on Demand uncertainties, Product & Innovation on Innovation planning, and upstream Supply Chain (Category, Sourcing Unit, Procurement) on short and long term delivery!

Your main responsibilities:

• Supply Chain MCO: Dispatch Rate and Obsoletes – using available data and analytics to generate business insights and action plans for different scenarios;
• Managing appropriate stock levels, driven by forecast uncertainty insight (event management, season management, Assumptions risk and opportunity planning);
• Part of the project team for implementation of next generation planning systems. Service;
• Drives the service performance to the agreed service targets;
• Collaborates with forecast excellence team & CCBT to define the constrained plan and risk mitigation plans;
• Collaborates with European category teams to identify supply constraints and opportunities;
• Drives the demand and supply reconciliation long term (through RCCP) and mid-term (4 weeks+);
• Prepares handover of mid-term plan to the Customer Support Squad for execution (1-4 weeks) e.g. list of key events, risks and opportunities and risk mitigation Innovations / relaunches;
• Translate the innovation forecast for the full horizon (5-18 months) in Visual Fabric in cooperation with CCBT team (volume and risk & opportunities);
• Collaborate with P&I on innovation and launch planning for the go to market;
• Check feasibility of timings and production capacity of innovations and relaunches;
• Translate phasing in and out plan in planning system in cooperation with Category,
• Forecasting Excellence, and Customer teams;

Business Partners

• Identifies the key trade-offs in running operation, events, and product launches and proposes options to the planning manager and the CCBT lead (trade off cost/ cash/service);
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with Sales, Trade Category Management, Brand Building, and Finance business partners for forecast optimization purposes and perfect execution of product launches;
• Understanding of the drivers of the business in order to communicate and share the SC information in the properly and effectively;

Business Waste

• Provide transparency about potential risks and obsoletes regarding innovations, delisting’s and relaunches;
• Focus on prevention and solving of obsoletes through proactive risk mitigation (including approval of the business);
• Represent Supply Chain with respect to obsolete related topics.