Demand and Embellishment Planner

With a trusted portfolio of world-class Air Care, Surface, Laundry and Pest Control products, the Essential Home team’s purpose is to Make a House Your Home. Fuelling this newly formed business and leadership team is a diverse and inclusive culture for all. Together, we’re shaping a team with a founder mentality: that listens and learns, and that is entrepreneurial, agile, and action oriented.

With high-quality brands such as Air Wick, Cillit Bang, Calgon and Mortein, now is an exciting time to join a dynamic company full of purpose, pace and energy, that will create a truly unique learning and career opportunity for all.

**Supply**:

- 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.

**About the role**:
You will be responsible for a Brand SKU portfolio, driving alignment of an agreed Brand forecast through the monthly S&OP cycle.

Maintaining weekly SKU level forecasts within KINAXIS DP through the inputs provided from the S&OP process. These forecasts are used for planning production and the purchase of finished goods from our global supply sites, as well as providing a forward view of sales revenue to the Business.

The role interfaces directly with Sales and Marketing to accurately reflect promotional and marketing activity within the forecast. For major accounts, Customer collaboration sessions form part of the monthly process to drive promotional alignment and compliance.

This is a highly visible role within the Essential Home business and involves presenting to the senior leadership team each month.

**Your responsibilities**:

- Maintain SKU forecast in KINAXIS DP for the next 12 months as a minimum. This is done through consolidating the inputs from the IBP process, performing trend analysis, and providing challenge where necessary to the stakeholders in the Commercial Business.
- Leading the Demand Planning Meeting within the S&OP process to generate the business forecast for defined Customer(s)
- Ensure an accurate Customer / SKU forecast to help facilitate delivery in full and best in class customer service.
- Ownership and achievement primary KPI’s - Forecast Accuracy (MAD / Bias), Customer Fill Rate (PFR)
- Supporting NPD/EPD projects within product portfolio.
- The planning of the 3rd party copackers by creating purchase orders base on the correct lead time
- Ensuring continuity of supply through collaboration with the 3rd party and RB factories
- Control of inventory of the stock, pack materials and raw material
- Understanding the relationship between forecast and planning as this is directly affecting the copackers / factory's RCCP and you need to find the best solution to control the inventory.
- Tracking inbounds shipments to ensure on time delivery via sea freight/air freight by having a strong collaboration with Logistics peers.
- Work with UK Marketing, Global Marketing and Trade Marketing to identify new product opportunities for UK Embellishment
- Project management of embellishment launches into the business with the support of the Commercial and Supply teams including contingency planning and resolving issues
- Ensure that the first production plans for Embellishment NPD’s and promotional units are aligned to business needs and alongside the ongoing embellishment planner to ensure stock is available when required
- Support in the Financial Forecast Planning across embellishment for UKI including aligning quarterly forecasts, managing embellishment costs keeping within budgets. Maintain optimum customer service levels by effectively coordinating with production facilities and managing daily forecasts.**The experience we're looking for**:

- Experience of working with a FMCG companyExperience in Demand Planning
- Project Management experience in driving productivity
- Strong analytical ability; analyse complex data, identify issues, explain variances and recommend solutions
- Strong Relationship builder and excellent at cross functional day to day interaction or project work
- Ability to consider and drive end to end improvements
- Self-motivated with strong influencing skills
- Working knowledge of Supply Chain Management

**The skills for success**:

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