Planning Excellence Manager Name

**Company Profile**:
At Unilever you are more than your job title, you are part of the world’s most successful, purpose-led business. Work with brands that are well-loved around the world, that improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us.

We produce world-leading brands including Lipton, Knorr, Dove, Axe, Hellmann’s and Omo, alongside trusted local names and innovative-forward thinking brands like Ben & Jerry’s, The Dollar Shave Club and Surf.

Be part of the most successful purpose-led business in the world. Have the opportunity to see the true impact that you’re having in the work you do - every small thing counts.

**Responsibilities**:
This role reports to the NAME Planning Director, with significant scope for autonomous working, while working closely with the NAME SC LT. The incumbent will support in leading and driving initiatives for NAME inventory performance, business waste and agility through KPI tracking; process improvement, highlighting areas of focus and propose solutions for areas of improvement by drawing on best practice, and ensuring the planning excellence in the region. Drive ‘no touch planning agenda’ across the region in collaboration with Plan Service center & global team. S/he will also support the communication channels between the Global; regional and local teams.

**Who you are**:

- **You’re a pioneer**:You have a growth mindset and think innovatively. You can create program ideas as well as deliver on their execution. You can see the future and help bring others with you on the journey.
- **You’re a change champion**: You are passionate about innovative solutions and upskilling and you have the energy, resilience, and structure to tackle big projects
- **You’re a dot connector**:You can collaborate globally across the business to drive a high-performance team environment and accelerate business growth.
- **You’re data driven**: You love turning information to strategy, and using insights to drive team performance

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Leads the development and facilitates the deployment of new capabilities/roll-outs in the area Supply Planning
- Drive NAME Planning excellence agenda with NAME Planning LT
- Lead RTVA and overall digitalization agenda together with digital team and country planning team
- Coordinate and consolidate the roadmaps and key planning JBTD across the region
- Lead Planning community to continuously improve performance; and facilitates the exchange and deployment of best practices
- Deep-dive analysis of performance of specific categories/countries to propose improvement areas on BW; Inventory, SKU complexity and DBNR
- Lead the NAME Planning performance discussions by BU through standard analysis and KPI dashboards
- Identify opportunities to tackle structural drivers of inventory and waste by providing in depth analysis of countries performance on regular basis, highlight areas for improvement through loss trees, maturity assessment analysis.
- Drive No touch Planning agenda and define the roadmap & action plans and follow the adherence by BU
- Have regular engagement with countries to discuss supply chain process related issues with Process Champions
- Develop a skill assessment and development plan; and ensure that it is implemented and follows-up regularly
- Build NAME planning community with a clear agenda & engagement plans
- Ensure global alignment on all solutions provided/deployed
- Owns process excellence KPI thru Business Excellence Reports

**Professional Skills**:

- Analytical Thinking & problem solving skills
- Good presentation skills
- Good communication & influencing skills both verbal and written at all levels of the business
- The ability to work as part of a small team and build working relationships with and without face to face contact
- Enthusiastic and proactive, holds self and others accountable for delivery
- Change Management capabilities
- Ability to manage cross functionally and across diverse and large geography
- Networking Skills
- Project Planning & Organization skills

**Experience**:

- In-depth understanding of Unilever planning processes
- 5-7 years of Experience in Supply Chain Planning, particularly Supply Planning & Forecasting and Demand Planning in Unilever or FMCG industry
- Good understanding of SAP ECC, SAP APO, SAP BW, particularly Forecasting and Re-pack Planning functionality
- Experience in U2K2 Methodology & APO
- Experience in designing and managing processes
- People management
- Project management experience
- Knowledge/understanding of S&OP processes and cross-functional working
- A good manufacturing basic appreciation knowledge
- High level Microsoft Office Excel experienced user