Global Home Care Supply Chain Planner

Job Title: Supply Chain Global Planner Home Care

Work Level: 1D 

Scope: Global Home Care Supply Chain 

Location: Mumbai HO 

Req ID:R-1170311

About Home Care

Home Care is a €12bn Business Group, consistently growing and home to some of our most iconic brands (OMO, Persil, Surf, Comfort, Domestos, Sunlight). We deliver the largest volume of goods across all Business Groups. Our latest Bright Future Strategy is anchored in a major portfolio transformation programme—shifting from Legacy Formats to Future Formats. Supply Chain is at the heart of this transformation, enabling a lean, agile, and digital high-performing operation to realise our future category vision.

Role Overview

As a Global Home Care Supply Chain Planner, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the Supply Chain is performing and investing in the right areas. You will work closely with Business Units and  global BG functions (Finance, Procurement, Contract Manufacturers, Logistics) to drive three key pillars that are at the heart of Supply Chain Strategy: Capacity, Capex, and Transformation Projects.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Global Capacity & Resilience: Manage the Global Capacity Programme, ensuring optimal capacity levels and proactively identifying needs for network intervention. You will also be responsible for the Finished Goods and Material Resilience Programme.

• Supply Chain Transformation: Lead the Transformation Programme to ensure progress and deliver savings to the P&L. You will directly manage Transformation Projects across Business Units, including idea generation, analysis, and approval. Example projects: network redesign, make-or-buy decisions, efficient capacity utilisation, vertical integration and digital technologies. Bring external insights from competitors and other industries to improve our program.

• CAPEX Management: Own and manage the governance for tracking, monitoring, and reporting the progress of the Capex program, liaising with Business Units and BG Finance.

Experience and Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in Engineering, Logistics, Operations, Planning, or related fields. 
• Experience in Planning, Manufacturing or Logistics.  
• Broad understanding of the E2E Supply Chain.
• Solid business acumen, with an understanding of P&L and cost components.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical and critical thinking skills. 

• Advanced skills in Excel (Power BI is a plus and can be learnt on the job).

• Experience in PowerPoint for storyboarding. 

• Strong stakeholder management skills. 

Personal Attributes:

• Continuous and faster learner with a drive to excel. 

• Flexibility and adaptable to transit between different subjects and cultures. 

• Strong team member, able to work both collaboratively and independently within the function and cross functionally.
• Good communication to translate data into actionable insights. 
• Open minded, with strong willingness and ability to learn and explore new areas.

What We Offer:

• Exposure different BUs. Opportunity to learn best-in-class supply chain practices across the globe. Work with a global, multi-cultural team. 
• Work at the heart of the BG Supply Chain, with significant exposure to senior leadership.

• Development of a strategic perspective in both supply chain and business.
• Work with a global, multicultural team.

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