Senior Supply Planner

Unilever; Mumbai City; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Unilever in India is seeking a Supply Planning Executive to optimize inventory, service and cost across the end-to-end supply network. The role collaborates with Customer Marketing, Planning and Sales, and partners with Planning Excellence, Demand Planning and Distribution Planning to implement new planning technologies.

You will lead supply chain strategy for an agile, efficient network, coordinate across branches, and serve as the supply chain point of contact for the category and other teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in supply planning and customer operations is preferable.
• Graduate in Engineering, Finance or MBA in SCM.

Responsibilities

• Develop production plans based on 19-week rolling demand while maintaining optimal service and inventory levels at each depot.
• Partner with the category team on ongoing category plans for activation, prebuilds, distribution drives.
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for order-related losses and implement CAPA to minimize recurrence and improve service performance.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Procurement and Logistics to meet service-level targets with optimized cost.
• Leverage digital and AI-based planning tools and develop future models to improve efficiency.

Skills

Supply planning

Customer operations

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Engineering/ Finance degree

MBA in SCM

Tools

AI-based planning tools

Digital planning tools

Job description

Job Description – The Supply Planning Executive optimizes inventory, service and cost while managing volatility. As a supply chain representative for the category, this role works closely with Customer Marketing, Planning and Sales, and partners with Planning Excellence, Demand Planning and Distribution Planning to implement new technologies in planning and customer service. The role leads supply chain strategy to build an agile, efficient, collaborative and aligned end-to-end network, coordinates across all branches, and serves as the supply chain point of contact for the category and other supply chain teams.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Develop production plans based on 19 week rolling forward demand while maintaining optimal service and inventory levels at each depot.
• Partner with the category team on ongoing category plans for activation, prebuilds, distribution drives.
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for order-related losses and implement Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA) to minimize recurrence and improve service performance.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Procurement and Logistics to meet service-level targets with optimized cost.
• Leverage digital and AI-based planning tools and develop future models to improve efficiency.

Key KPIs

• Service-DR, MSTN LF, Day 0 CCF, OT-CRFR along with Day 2 and Day 7 allocation, LTFM,
• Inventory- RDOH as per Target, DBNR
• Cost - CPT, Km travelled, Business waste
• System Implementation- Digital planning skills

Key Stakeholders

• Category Teams- Marketing, Customer Marketing
• Factory Teams
• Central Team - Demand, Distribution, Planning Excellence, Quality, SC Finance, Category Finance, Procurement, R&D
• Customer Development- -CCMs, ASMs
• Delivery- Branch Fulfilment teams and Central Logistics
• Category & SC Finance

Experience Requirement

Experience in Supply Planning and Customer Operations is preferrable

Educational Qualification

Graduate in Engineering / Finance /MBA in Supply Chain Management