Demand Planner

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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. We are a global team united by this purpose.

Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Our supply chain is the backbone of our business. It's how we get our trusted products to people all over the world, safely and efficiently. And it's our talented and passionate teams that make this happen.

If you're looking for a career in supply chain, there's no better place to be than Reckitt. We offer a variety of exciting opportunities in all areas of the supply chain, from planning and procurement to manufacturing and logistics. You could join our Global Supply Planning team to develop and implement our global supply strategy, or work with our Procurement Centre of Excellence team to negotiate and manage our supplier relationships.

Our Manufacturing Excellence team help us improve the efficiency, quality and safety of our manufacturing operations, and our Logistics Excellence team develop new and innovative ways to distribute our products to customers.

As a Demand Planner you will be responsible for developing sales forecasts for key brands to arrive at a business consensus with the commercial business and the supply organization, and for maintaining customer service and inventory control in finished goods with a focus on delivering total customer service satisfaction and net working capital targets.

Forecasts will be established by analyzing and evaluating the combination of consumer and customer trade promotions, run rates, trends, & seasonality, using demand planning software and judgmental inputs to achieve business alignment.

In addition to this, the Demand Planner will attend team meetings with the Brand Marketers and Project Managers to ensure smooth start-up of new launches and projects.

• Direct responsibility for the management of a consensus enterprise forecast for assigned brands and business units.
• Coordination of monthly demand planning meetings with Sales, Marketing, Customer Marketing, and Manufacturing.
• Analysis of customer acceptance information and market penetration estimates to develop forecasts for new product introductions, identifying high side and low side risk to these estimates.
• Maintaining inventory at appropriate level to ensure high customer service, while meeting brand inventory targets.
• Review and challenge monthly/weekly production, inventory deployment and capacity plans to ensure proper flow of finished goods across the product supply chain for assigned consumer products.
• Thorough management of Excess and Obsolete stock
• The joint development of inventory strategies with Manufacturing, using accuracy statistics, forecast variability, and estimated risk to forecast projections.
• Evaluation of consumer and trade promotion activities to establish meaningful projections of future promotions.
• Contribution to the implementation of processes and systems tools to develop a customer demand driven demand-planning process.

• Must have a BS degree in engineering, supply chain management, logistics, business or another related discipline
• 2+ years in a demand planning or similar supply chain role.
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills
• Work experience within the fast-moving consumer goods industry is preferred
• Must have proven experience working in a fast-paced environment with ability to manage multiple priorities
• Must have solid working knowledge using an MRP system (Kinaxis strongly preferred)
• Must have strong computer skills, especially using excel with ability to create spreadsheets and perform advanced formulas and functions
• Pro-activeness /self-learner
• Team player - involves working with different departments
• Data-driven & hands-on approach when necessary. Effective leadership skills to be able to drive projects to completion

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 recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results.

You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

USD $81,000.00 - $

The base salary…