Execution Planner-Materials-BPC at Unilever

Main Job Purpose:

• The Execution Planner (RMPM) is the Planning representative at Unilever’s factories from RMPM perspective. The role Material Scheduling: receives the Production Schedule - and schedules and executes the daily call offs of Raw and Packaging Materials from suppliers. 

Key Accountabilities:

Material Scheduling

• Schedule the delivery of materials with Suppliers, monitor delivery logistics (Call off)
• Liaise with local Suppliers to ensure material availability to meet schedules and define and execute corrective actions when necessary.
• Manage and resolve week 0 to 1 material availability crises with suppliers.
• Execute SLOB management actions proposed by the Inventory Optimisation Specialist
• Maintain delivery due list with inbound warehouse personnel.
• Ensure the tracking document is populated with integrity of materials by ensuring prompt write offs of obsolete stocks (following global policy)
• Recommend changes on POs to L2 team (MRP Coordinator)

Liaison with other parties:

• Escalate to Procurement planned material availability issues.
• Liaise with inbound stores on overdue deliveries and follow up with suppliers.
• Liaise with inbound stores and Suppliers for most desirable delivery days.
• Liaise with Suppliers of rejected materials and ensure that all materials are returned to the suppliers.
• Ensure that all GRN on materials on week 0 to 1 are capture timelessly, and if not escalate to the Market & Site Collaboration Planner
• Advise Suppliers of all changes in stock holding policy to ensure that stock is appropriately managed.

Transition Management:

• Manage RMPM material write offs at product launches, re-launches, SKU rationalisation, 5S projects, working closely with the MRP Coordinator to ensure that all plans are optimised and run-out schedules are accurately maintained.
• Ensure material availability for RMPM on week 0 to 1 – production trials, ramp up and ramp down.
• Provide input into MOC for RMPM

Working Capital Management

• Work closely with the Procurement team and suppliers to ensure appropriate stock levels for bulks are maintained both on-site and at the suppliers to ensure material availability.
• Execute actions proposed by the Inventory Specialist and End to End Planners on Slow and Obsolete (SLOB) raw and packaging materials and ensure that provisions are raised timeously.

Data Maintenance

• Provide feedback to Parameter Optimisation Specialist to ensure run strategy is workable.
• Provide and validate input data to the Inventory Specialist for generation of the Inventory Planning Model and agree output prior to implementation.
• Provide and validate other planning master data required by the L2 Hub
• Ensure proper maintenance of relevant data in the system as defined by the Master Data templates.
• Perform regular scheduling data health checks.

Reporting

• Ensure the plant shortage report is issued weekly.
• Professional Skills & Standards of Leadership

ESSENTIAL

• Future fit planning skills is an advantage (Curiosity and Agility; Impact through technology)
• Tertiary degree with Supply Chain and/ or Business Management is preferred. An engineering degree will also be considered, with experience in the general supply chain being an advantage.
• Further studies in supply chain, including a APICS/SAPICS qualification, would be beneficial.
• A good understanding of, and the use of SAP is essential.
• Planning and functional business process knowledge
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence stakeholders to achieve results.
• Strong change, service and agile mindset
• Strong accountability and responsibility
• Standards of Leadership: Personal mastery; Agility

Experience Required: 

ESSENTIAL

• 1-3 Years exposure to broad based Supply Chain management.
• Understand ‘Make’ and ‘Source’ processes.
• Fully operational in ‘Plan’ processes
• Experience in managing external parties.
• Experience working and interacting with all levels in a business.

PREFERRED 

• FMCG experience

Travel:

• Candidate must be willing to travel locally to other factories in an infrequent basis.

Contacts:

Internal:

• Factory management and operational teams
• Inbound stores
• L1 Planning team. 
• Procurement Teams

External: 

• L2 Planning Hub
• Material Suppliers

What You Get: Challenges of the job & experience to be gained.

• Opportunity to work with and optimizing the systems in order to delivery improved planning results. 
• Combine several constraints and often divergent objectives.
• Team working with different functions.
• Working with suppliers & managing their development and performance 
• Clear vision of the supply chain processes.