Supply Planning Assistant Manager

**The Purpose of Role**:
The Supply Planner role is responsible for devising a production plan and managing the execution of the plan in order to support business needs. A Supply Planner acts as a key connector between Demand Planning and Manufacturing. It is the responsibility of the Planner to understand the business and to build a responsive network that can react to the volatility of the market while managing inventory levels, non-finished good material availability, and waste implications.

As part of the Supply Planning Team, you will need to drive initiatives to meet team goals, ensure the continuous improvement of processes and outcomes, optimize the delivery of service, inventory and production planning and work collaboratively on new product development plans. Frequent and effective interaction with demand planning, factories, suppliers, procurement and logistics teams is essential.

In addition, you will prepare capacity constrained supply plans using planning tools; organize and coordinate meetings with 3PMs build a “partner to win” relationship and identify future customer service risk and work with the cross-functional teams to quantify and reduce impact to customers.
**Who You Are & What You’ll Do**

In times when stock supply is constrained, you'll act as a key connector between the Marketing Sales Organization and the Supply Planner, alerting the local internal teams, such as Customer Service, about restricted supply situations and recovery plans. You are responsible for ensuring the SKU level demand signal created is produced and supplied on time-in-full by the Unilever supply network.

You'll manage your SKU's entire life cycle, setting up new products and managing the exit of SKUs from the Unilever range. You'll be expected to proactively identify and mitigate future risks to the business and drive this change agenda that will help us get ahead of a crisis.
**Team Structure**:

- Reporting to: Demand & Supply Planning Manager

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Translate customer demand into a supply plan.
- Ensure stocks are available as per delivery schedule to fulfill sales requirements.
- Monitor production output and ensure to meet Output Reliability targets.
- Coordinate with production on the capacity and production on a weekly schedule.
- Monitor short and long capacity planning via Capacity Planning Tool and the category business waste number.
- Measure and work on improvement of Supply Network Planning in SAP via accuracy of master data.
- Coordinate with cross-functional on new products launch/promotion/packaging changes to ensure delivery on time and in full.
- Ensure the right quantity are produced for the right plant location in the system.
- Measure production plan conformance and ensure production meets the schedule.
- Active involvement in relevant system testing and go-live activities of other Marketing Sales Organizations (MSO).
- Prepare monthly reporting.
- Share insights on driving better, healthier stock levels in the respective categories.
- Ensure safety, health and environmental compliance as required by National legislation and Unilever standards.

**Key Stakeholders**:

- Internal: Materials Requirements Planning Planners, MSO Supply and Demand planners, Regional Category Planners, Research & Developments, Sourcing Unit Export Planners
- External: Production team, Quality Control team, Factory Warehouse team

**Travel**:
No travel is required.
**Essential Experience/Skill/Knowledge**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Logistics, Operations Planning, Supply Chain or related fields.
- Work experience in production planning and supply planning.
- Good quantification and analytical skills in a dynamic environment require the ability to be flexible and work in “gray” areas.

**Desirable Experience/Skill/Knowledge**:

- Operational Process Planning and experience with SAP APO and ECC is a plus.
- Strong Planning and Analytical Skill.
- Strong growth mindset and team spirit, proactive approach to issues and opportunities.

**How to Apply**:
**About Unilever**:

- Be 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 promote innovation, big and small, to make our business win and grow; and we believe in business as a force for good. Unleash your curiosity, challenge ideas, and disrupt processes: use your energy to make this happen. Our brilliant business leaders and colleagues provide mentorship and inspiration, so you can be at your best. Every day, many Malaysian households use our products to feel good, look good and get more out of life-giving us a unique opportunity to build a brighter future._
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