In-Market Supply Planner - East & West Africa at GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK)

Job description

Your Responsibilities

Job Purpose
To optimize service, costs and inventory for all SKUs imported into East, West and using the agreed Demand Forecast and various supply-parameters as inputs

• Key Responsibilities
• Supply Planning Processes and Improvement
• Generate Supply Plans with production sites to deliver stock to support sales forecast. Ensure on-time order placement aligned with contractual agreement.
• Management of Open Order Book, ensuring alignment with manufacturing production plans
• Liase within market supply coordinators/Demand Planners to understand the forecasted requirements, NPI and promotional activities, seasonality and manage supply to achieve and maintain high levels of customer service whilst meeting inventory targets
• Proactively identify key supply/demand imbalance, assess the risk, run root cause analysis, evaluate options and propose solutions. Ensure corrective/preventive actions in place.
• Ensure corrective/preventive actions in place. Review weekly supply issues (Open out of stocks, predicted stock outs), and provide necessary input for weekly SCIM
• Develop, agree with a supplier/Scheduler and implement flexible repeated schedule (FRS) options/campaigns and use it to optimize production line outcome. Maintain agreed FRS (Global/Internal Sites)
• Manage supply planning horizon, outside the manufacturing lead-time, ensuring weekly load levelling of supply plan against available capacity & inventory targets, considering agreed campaigns
• Lead weekly review meetings with suppliers as per standard process to ensure effective management of short/medium term supply period
• For Global/internal sites, manage monthly RCCP process in terms of graph generationg & provide input to Supply Planning Manager on foreseen risks. Work with Supply Planning Managers on risk mitigation options and scenario Planning & preparation for SRM
• Review existing KPI's & lead/lag measures to prevent undesirable effects of supply & demand changes. Action agreed performance improvement plans & integrate new improvements into current std ways of working
• Drive KPI’s OTIF & Forecast Accuracy delivery for both EA & WA business units
• Liaise with Customer service & Logistics on shipment plans & Logistics requirements.
• Master Data & Inventory
• Optimise stock holding levels within the total supply chain through a detailed understanding of the key planning parameters and E2E process (Safety stock, lead times, supply reliability, demand variability, service objectives and in line with W Cap Target
• Liaise with hubs master data team to provide input with the correct supply planning parameters set up of SKUs.
• Be responsible for the regular review and maintenance and improvement plan of basic supply planning parameters to reflect current supply chain performance indicators and protect customer service level targets
• NPI/Artwork
• Work closely with Hub NPI coordinator & provide timely information as necessary (eg first production date), to allow effective tracking, risk identification & issue resolution of NPIs and Artworks
  Work closely with sites to mitigate product write offs.

Why You?

• University bachelor’s degree & Supply chain qualification
• Supply chain, Finance, Engineering or Commerce
• To manage the optimization and balance required between cost, cash and service, and to also manage a wide variety of Stakeholders
• To manage the optimization and balance required between cost, cash and service, and to also manage a wide variety of Stakeholders across supply chain & supply hub.

Job-Related Experience

• 2-3 years’ experience in and FMCG or Pharma environment, or working in an in-Market Planners/supply planner
• A clear understanding of how imports Planning works is needed since this is the core of the function.

Other Job-Related Skills/Background

Some knowledge of shipping and freight terms would be advantageous & planning capabilities