Assistant Supply Planning Manager, Nutrition
Reckitt
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- Assistant Supply Planning Manager, Nutrition
- City: Kuala Lumpur
- We are Reckitt
- Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.
- Supply Chain
- 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
To support the Demand and supply planning manager in driving an efficient and responsive supply planning process across defined brands and categories within the Malaysia/ Singapore Nutrition business. This role ensures accurate production frequency, optimal inventory levels, and alignment with commercial and supply chain teams to deliver high service levels and minimize business loss.
Your responsibilities
- Supply & Inventory Planning
- • Ensure timely communication of agreed forecasts to suppliers/intercompany sources via systems like Excel SNP or Rapid Response (Kinaxis)
- • Plan replenishment to maintain service levels and avoid stockouts or excess inventory.
- • Manage inventory levels within budget and forecast parameters, ensuring minimal waste during product relaunches or promotions.
- • Ownership of end-to-end replenishment process from net requirement planning to purchase orders, shipment from factories, warehouse put away until stock available for sales.
- • Monitor and collaborate with local forwarding agent to ensure shipment clearance on time.
- Forecasting & Demand Planning
- • Generate forecasts by reviewing historical trends, promotion calendar, and activities available from commercial team;
- • Drive discussion in meetings with commercial team within the S&OP process to produce unbiased forecast, gap identification or closure with sound facts and communicate supply constraints or business risks;
- • Challenge forecast assumptions using trend analysis, MAPE, BIAS, and promotional/media phasing data.
- Promotional & Packaging Planning
- • Coordinate with third-party embellishment teams for reworking promotional products.
- • Plan packaging material requirements to ensure timely availability in correct quantities.
- Reporting & Communication
- • Prepare and publish monthly reports (Production Accuracy, inventory, Slob report)
- • Provide forecasted volumes to Finance for business planning and budgeting.
- • Communicate supply constraints and risks proactively to ensure business alignment and timely resolution.
- • Master data accuracy for planned materials in system
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- • Work closely with commercial, finance, supply, and logistics teams to ensure seamless execution of plans.
- • Support business-related planning tasks as required by the Head of Planning.
The experience we're looking for
- • University degree related to the field of Supply Chain, Business Engineering
- • Minimum 3 years’ experience in supply/demand planning and determine priorities in a highly pressured working environment
- • Proficient in Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office applications
- • Knowledge on SAP APO, SNP, Kinaxis is an added advantage
- • Highly analytical and fact-based decision making
- • Able to work independently, think logically, challenge status quo, and consistently seek to improve current way of working to seek of productivity
- • Able to manage multiple priorities in a rapid change environment
- • Good interpersonal skills and strong command of both written and spoken English
- What we offer
- With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.
- Equality
- We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, a