Supply Chain Planner

Description

Supply Chain Planner

Location - Walton Oaks, Surrey

Competitive Salary + Benefits

The Role

We are looking for Supply Chain Planners who will have responsibility for a particular product family, which will normally be linked to Kimberly Clark sites and external vendors, within the 0 to 4 month time horizon. The role will require daily tracking of stock levels and sales forecasts provided by the Customer Business Units (CBU’s) and liaison with a variety of business functions such as Customer Service, Demand Management, Logistics Operations, Strategic and Procurement teams etc. to ensure optimal product supply, utilizing the SAP Planning system and transactional processes.

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Andrex®. Scott®. Kotex®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on 151 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You

You will be contributing to the preparation of daily/weekly production plans within a portfolio (Mill or Vendor) and have management of day-to-day inventory issues. Leading on projects to continuously improve planning and supply chain processes and identifying, monitoring, and advising on risks, opportunities and priorities to aid tactical and strategic decision making.

You will optimise the system capability through reporting, planning and transactional systems to deliver objectives, maintaining accurate master data and inventory requirements and manage execution of product/packaging rollovers, introductions, and discontinuations.

To provide optimisation and rapid day to day communication of change to production and deployment to best meet customer service and inventory objectives.

What you'll need

You will have previous experience as a Supply Chain, Tactical, Production, or Materials Planner, or Supply Optimiser with a background in FMCG or similar.

Ideally you will hold a Bachelor’s Degree (BA, Bsc) or equivalent.

Experience in SAP is desirable but must have a proven track record of building successful cross-functional relationships.

You will be fluent in English (additional language skills would be advantageous) together with first class communication and analytical skills.

Competitive Benefits

We offer competitive pay and benefits to employees and reward excellence and performance. Our belief in promoting a healthy work-life balance drives us to support our employees’ total well-being, offering comprehensive benefits not limited to gym memberships, private medical insurance, dental cover, employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme, critical illness cover, travel insurance and a market leading defined contribution pension scheme.

To Be Considered

Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will then review your application and follow up with you if you seem like a great fit for this role.

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