Distribution Planner

Title of role: Distribution Planner

Location of the job: Hybrid, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Background & Purpose of the Job

As a Distribution Planner, you will be responsible for inventory deployment, transshipments, and deployment network design to ensure our products are at the right place at the right time. Additionally, you will be responsible for leading the regional MSTN/ESTN exception based planning process and driving continuous improvement. You will conduct root cause analysis for transship and expedite losses and develop action plans through system and/or process improvement. You will also oversee a transship and expedite budget and take service and cost tradeoffs accordingly. You will drive system utilization (RapidResponse, Aera, etc.) and feed loss tree insights into future enhancements. As part of the iOps team, you will bring expertise, focus, and operational excellence to the deployment process and share your insights.

Who You Are & What You'll Do

• You're digital & data translator: You understand how to use data and tools to quickly connect dots and develop insights and action.
• You're an entrepreneur: Innovative thinker bringing in fresh ideas and ability to execute these ideas within the team
• You're a born leader: Strong vision, clear accountability, and a passion for building talent and teams
• You're a strategy guru: Empowered to lead strategic agenda for deployment and inventory management.
• You're a dot connector: You can link our supply chain with our customers supply chain and ensure that service is optimized based on the best inventory holding strategies
• You're a changemaker: Drive step change in deployment planning performance according to plan transformation program
• You're a culture & change champion: Working closely with cross functional colleagues both internally and externally as ONE TEAM and aligning expectations while holding others accountable
• You love to win, and have fun doing it: Demonstrating passion for performance & pursuit of progress

What You'll Do

• Be part of a high performing team with strong communication skills, operational excellence, and drive for continuous improvement
• Operate with an understanding of how deployment impacts the rest of the supply chain and encourage communication within and outside of your team
• Lead optimized deployment plan through collaboration with logistics and planning using digital tools (RapidResponse, Aera, etc.)
• Create consistent loss tree root cause analysis and action drivers for service cuts & transships by working with customer service, demand, and supply planning
• Use loss tree insights to influence improvements to digital tools and/or processes
• Operationalize the MSTN and ESTN KPIs and exception-based planning
• Ensure lead times for deployment in the system are maintained and accurate
• Ensure safety stock settings are dynamically adjusted for finished goods
• Enable technologies, such as Aera and Kinaxis to:
  • Balance the network
  • Dynamically deploy inventory based on changes in the DCs (including allocation plan vs actual)
• Define & implement prioritization logic for deployment and unloading based on customer needs, profitability, and projected DC inventory levels
• Optimize deployment network design by determining inventory holding points, safety stock levels and system enablers
• Determine network optimization opportunities by overlaying customer networks with our network and defines opportunities for the future together with customer supply chain. Collaborate with the central network and infrastructure team on scenario planning for the future.

What You'll Need To Succeed

• Bachelor's degree in Operations / Supply Chain or equivalent experience
• 2-4+ years of relevant experience in Planning, Manufacturing and/or Procurement
• Empowerment, Experimentation and Collaboration a must
• Holding people accountable, developing self and others, breakthrough thinking, optimizing Supply Chain integrated performance, strategic vision and influencing
• Strong relationship management and team leadership both internally and externally

What We Can Offer You

Culture for Growth | Top Notch Employee Health & Well Being Benefits | Every Voice Matters | Global Reach | Life at Unilever | Careers with Purpose | World Class Career Development Programs | Check Out Our Space | Focus On Sustainability

Unilever is an organization committed to diversity and inclusion to drive our business results and create a better future every day for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. For more information, please see Equal Employment Opportunity Posters

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