Supply Planning Assistant Manager

**Job Title: Supply Planning Assistant Manager**
**Location: Malaysia**

The Ice Cream division at Unilever is preparing to stand on its own, aiming to become an independent, EUR 8.3 billion publicly listed company by the end of 2025. We’re on a mission to create the ultimate snacking company. A place where growth, innovation, founder and ownership mentality, and performance are cultivated and rewarded. And where we craft extraordinary ice cream experiences - transforming ordinary moments into lasting memories. Because we know, life tastes better with ice cream.

**ABOUT THE MAGNUM ICE CREAM COMPANY**:
The Magnum Ice Cream Company is all about growth. Growing our business. Growing our customers’ businesses. Growing our people’s careers. Growth begins with empowerment. So we free our people to be innovative, responsible entrepreneurs, driven and equipped to give our consumers more amazing products and unforgettable moments - and having fun doing it.

With 19.000 expert ice cream colleagues and iconic brands like Wall’s, Cornetto and Ben & Jerry’s, loved in 76 countries, we are the world’s largest Ice Cream company leading the industry. We have been taking pleasure seriously for more than 100 years, serving happiness with every lick or scoop of ice cream for generations.

We are investing to unlock the full growth potential of The Magnum Ice Cream Company as a standalone entity, once we separate from Unilever, which is planned to happen before the end of 2025.

We dream big but keep things simple to act fast.

If you want to **grow with us, make an impact, and shape the future of Ice Cream**, this is the place for you

**JOB PURPOSE**:
In times when stock supply is constrained, you'll act as a key connector with the Marketing, Trade Marketing, 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.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Translate customer demand into a supply plan.
- Ensure stocks are available as per delivery schedule to fulfil sales requirements.
- Monitor production output and ensure to meet Output Reliability targets.
- Coordinate with production on the capacity and production on the 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 product launch/promotion/packaging changes to ensure delivery on time and in full.
- Ensure the right quantity is produced for the right plant location in the system.
- Measure production plan conformance and ensure production meets the schedule.
- Active involvement in relevant Change Request testing and SAP system go-live activities of other Marketing Sales Organizations
- 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.

**WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED**:
**EXP**E**RI**E**NCE**S & QUALIFICATIONS**:

- 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.
- Operational Process Planning and experience with SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO), Kinaxis and ERP Central Component (ECC) is a plus.
- Good Planning and Analytical Skill.
- Strong growth mindset and team spirit, proactive approach to issues and opportunities.

**W**HAT YOU CAN**EXPECT**:

- A unique mix of global scale & start-up spirit—€8.3bn powerhouse with an agile, entrepreneurial mindset. We’re building a new high growth Ice Cream company from the ground up.
- Career without limits—42 markets, international opportunities, and fast-tracked growth.
- A performance-driven culture—Freedom to act, disrupt and grow - your success is measured by impact.
- A company that celebrates joy, innovation, and purpose—We create extraordinary careers, just like our ice cream creates extraordinary moments.

**ADDITIONAL INFORMATION**
- As _publicly announced_, Unilever will separate its Ice Cream business _which is e_xpected by the end of 2025. T_his role will transfer to the new Ice Cream company._
- Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all _walks of life_. This means giving full and fair consideration to all