Associate Planning Manager

**Unilever is currently hiring for**Assistant Planning Manager NA Nutrition**:
**Function: Supply Chain**

**Scope**: Exports + Imports -NA

**Location**: Bosques, Mexico.

**Terms & Conditions**: Full time position. LTSI: Local Transfer Self Initiated

**ABOUT UNILEVER**

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do - creating a better business and a better world. You will work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. You will lead innovations, big and small, that will make our business win and grow. You will learn from brilliant business leaders and colleagues who provide mentorship and inspiration so that you can become a better you.

**JOB PURPOSE**

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do - creating a better business and a better world.

You’ll be responsible for leading the planning process for North America Nutrition. You’ll provide a centralised and holistic planning capability for global UI.

**WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE**

**Operational Supply Planning**
- Ensuring seamless end-to-end supply planning and operations; identifying short-term capacity constraints
- Preparing loss-tree analysis for all the non-supplied orders
- Reviewing KPIs with the sourcing units at the end of each planning cycle

**Sales and Operations Planning**
- Providing Supply related risks, Obsolete management in S&OP

**Inventory**P**lanning**
- Defining the planning strategies and stock replenishment guidelines and ordering frequency
- Monitoring days-on-hand (DOH) and identifying improvement opportunities
- Managing and recommending actions for slow-moving and obsolete stocks (SLOB)

**Sourcing Network Optimization**
- Aligning the UI sourcing strategy with global Supply Chain
- Identifying opportunities for sourcing network optimization (service, cost, etc) and driving cost reductions

**S**upport**B**usiness**G**rowth**through**Capacity Interlocking**
- Interlocking of up to 6-month capacity (medium-term) with the sourcing units and cluster product group SC based on forecast
- Interlocking 2-5 years capacity (long-term) with the Global SC team
- Identifying UI-driven capex requirements

**Systems and Capabilities**
- Working with IT business partners to drive automation enhancements
- Centralizing plan capability

**WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED**

**Experiences & Qualifications**
- 3 - 7 years of experience in Supply Chain Management
- A bachelor’s degree in Supply chain
- Working knowledge in systems (e.g. APO, Anaplan)
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (especially Excel)

Extra:

- FMCG experience
- APICS certification
- Fluent in English

**Skills**
- Be a strategic, highly adaptable and entrepreneurial person
- Embrace a high growth mindset with strong love for consumers, shoppers and customers
- Have strong communication, negotiation and influencing skills with key stakeholders
- Have experience working and leading in cross-functional teams
- Have great project management and business process design skills

**ARE YOU INTERESTED?**

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicates from all walks of life This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.