Market Collaboration Planner Personal Care

Unilever; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 65.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Annual bonus

Pension scheme

Staff shop discounts

Share plan

Gym membership

Zusammenfassung

Unilever in Kingston, United Kingdom, seeks a Market Collaboration Planner Personal Care to drive forecast quality and translate insights into demand drivers. You will collaborate with Marketing, Customer Operations and End-to-End Planning across global hubs to optimize supply while balancing portfolio needs.

You will be a data-driven planner who navigates trade-offs, champions master data accuracy, and leads with a collaborative approach across functions, ensuring timely updates to forecasts

Qualifikationen

• Clear understanding of end-to-end planning including demand, material, production, and innovation planning.
• Ability to analyse data and extract insights to drive decisions and predict trends.
• Familiarity with Kinaxis, Power BI, RTVA and Excel for forecasting and planning.
• Strong collaboration skills to partner with stakeholders across Marketing, Finance and Operations.
• Demonstrates empathy, adaptability and leadership to influence cross-functional teams.

Aufgaben

• Accountable for forecast accuracy, bias, and value add measures.
• Support CCBT discussions with market, product portfolio, and supply chain insights.
• Translate business insights into demand drivers for auto-forecast modelling in global locations.
• Explain drivers powering auto-forecast to colleagues in CCBT and sales functions.
• Lead transitions and innovations by co-creating a business plan and precise forecast inputs.
• Apply exception-based planning to focus on SKUs hardest to forecast.
• Operate across 4 weeks to 18 months horizons.
• Ensure forecast aligns with financial forecasting."
• Monitor and evaluate different forecast building blocks and support portfolio management and segmentation processes.

Kenntnisse

Planning mastery

Digital mastery

Technology expertise

Business partnering

Personal leadership

Tools

Kinaxis

Power BI

RTVA

Excel

FEU

TPM

Jobbeschreibung

Job Title: Market Collaboration Planner Personal Care

Location: Kingston

JOB PURPOSE

This role has overall responsibility for the quality of the forecast, translating business strategy and insights into demand drivers, and using shipment trends and insights to enable the CCBT to course-correct the business strategy. This role directly contributes to turnover by helping Customer Operations deliver exceptional customer service. Market Collaboration Planners are accountable for the forecast quality KPI’s (accuracy and bias), and leading the business through transitions (innovations, phase-in phase-outs, discontinuations, etc.). This role will have less of a focus on ‘hands‑on’ manual work in the systems than similar roles in the past and more emphasis on collaboration with business stakeholders to deliver results. This role is highly skilled in collaboration and navigating trade-offs, is a master of demand planning and S&OP, and possesses strong understanding of the marketing and sales plans, and deep mastery of their portfolio and supply chains. They are data driven in their approach, use exception-based planning to ensure effort is spent in the areas that can add most value. The role also uses the latest tools and technology to deliver results, including looking at the forecast through different lenses (customer, category, brand, building block, etc.)

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Accountable for Forecast Accuracy, Bias, Forecast Value Add, VVD and Extreme Bias
• Support the CCBT discussions with deep understanding of the market, product portfolio, and supply chains
• Gather business insights and help translate them into demand drivers for auto forecast modelling in Katowice and Bangalore, aiming to continuously improve the forecast quality
• Understand in detail the drivers that power the auto-forecast and be able to articulate them to colleagues in the CCBT and sales functions
• Lead the business through transitions and innovations by co-creating a business plan and translating into precise forecast inputs
• Use exception-based planning to focus most time on those SKUs which are hardest to forecast
• Typically working in a horizon from 4wks to 18mths
• Ensure updated and agreed volume forecast is submitted and aligned with financial forecasting
• Monitor and evaluate different forecast building blocks
• Support portfolio management and segmentation processes

ALL ABOUT YOU

• Planning Mastery – “What we know” -A clear understanding of end to end planning, including demand planning, material requirements planning, production planning and innovation planning. Able to see the bigger picture, and recognise constraints and challenges in other parts of the supply chain.
• Performance Management & Digital Mastery – “How We Operate” - Understands how to analyse and extract valuable insights from data, and uses them effectively. Can collect and analyse data to make informed decisions. Knows when to question data, based on accuracy, and identified inconsistencies. Provides insight that enables the team to predict future trends, optimise current operations and identify new opportunities, which lead to businessgrowth.
• Technology Expertise – “What we know” –Kinaxis, Power BI, RTVA, Excel, FEU and TPM - Understands the different technology platforms and how they communicate with each other. Uses insight to root cause problems and identify relevant solutions. Sees the benefits of better utilising the technology, and of accurate masterdata. Enjoys learning new tools and systems.
• Business Partnering- Ability to partner with a range of stakeholders using effective communication and collaboration skills. Seek to provide supply chain expertise to help create business value and achieve a desired business goal.
• Personal Leadership - Is highly motivated to make the best contribution that they can. Is able to flex their style, adjust messages and how they are delivered based on the audience and the situation. Demonstrates empathy, emotional intelligence and is able to make connections between different pieces of information. Can envision different and better ways of working.

Key Interactions

• Collaborate with Marketing, CD, P&I and Finance to deliver the input-led forecast, including non-forecastable segments, innovations, and local brand building for all horizons
• Collaborate with Customer Operations in UKI and End-to-End Planning Teams in Katowice, On Demand quality, product availability constraints and mid and long term planning.

NOTES

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.

Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. 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.We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self. To find out more, including about our Employee Resource Groups, please click here Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Unilever | Unilever.