Senior Retail Supply Planner - P&G Target Customer Team

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Job Description

P&G is the largest consumer packaged goods company in the world. We have operations in over 75 countries, with 65 trusted brands that improve lives for 5 billion consumers worldwide. This brings many advantages, including the opportunity for our employees to enjoy a diverse and rewarding lifelong career filled with new and exciting challenges.

We believe great ideas emerge from the creative connections that happen between our talented employees, and we encourage diverse, multi-functional teams to work together to generate new ideas to address challenges we face. P&G has positions available at various technical centers and plants (including Cincinnati) across the United States.

Are you passionate about solving tough challenges? How would you like to use your analytical and problem-solving skills to find creative solutions for customers’ everyday problems? If this sounds like fun, we would love to have you join us as a Senior Retail Supply Planner on the P&G Target Customer Team.

As a Senior Retail Supply Planner, you will be the primary supply chain contact on a dynamic, multifunctional sales team managing specific business categories and customer supply chain improvement project:

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Delivers against core measures
• Lead development of management systems for total team
• Drives process improvement leveraging strong technical mastery within both Target and P&G Systems
• Executes health-checks and improvement plans for standard work processes
• Leverages Digital Tools to deliver leading supply chain results and identifies new capabilities needed
• Proactively executes data analysis to recommend solutions on the business as well as drive capacity on daily management systems
• Leverage technical mastery to contribute to the team’s new supply chain work process, tools, or daily management systems
• Proactively identify capabilities and tools needed to advance our team and results
• Owns relationship with Inventory Analyst as Target’s Superior Supply Chain Partner
• Leads highly complex data analysis to recommend and create breakthrough solutions on the business

Job Qualifications

Education:

• Have a minimum of a high school diploma, GED or equivalent education, however, a two or four-year college degree or equivalent administrative experience is preferred.

Skills needed:

• Partnership: Demonstrate capability in managing relationships and influencing internal and external partners, persuasively negotiate alignments to recommended actions and handle objections successfully. Owns external relationship and exercises a high level of influence with the customer over strategic decisions. Demonstrate capability to commercialize opportunities from data analysis, ability to influence internally and externally.
• Analytics: Demonstrate competency in leveraging data to draw insights and actions, understanding key business metrics and how to impact them, and capability to create breakthrough solutions on the business for complex problems. Capable at Excel, Power BI, and can quickly learn additional systems.
• Leadership: Deliver best in class horizontal process ownership enabling team capability internally and externally beyond category ownership. Ability to coach team and improve on areas of expertise. Ability to lead the development of total team capability for new supply chain work processes or daily management systems. Demonstrate consistently strong communication skills both written and verbal as P&G representative with customer.
• Project Management: Demonstrate capability to lead work team through new project/process change, capability to develop, train, and calibrate best practices across work team, ability to track, communicate, maintain progress against milestone timelines.
• Innovation: Demonstrate capability to improve tools / work processes and partner to ensure our capabilities and systems stay ahead of the curve. Ability to identify where digital tools can be developed to improve work processes and lead the initiative to develop and implement.

We believe you will be an excellent fit here if you meet the following requirements:

• Strong relationship building skills.
• Strong analytical/technical skills
• Strong Microsoft Excel and can learn other systems quickly.
• Ability to collaborate effectively within a multicultural environment.
• Problem solving via innovation and creativity.

What we offer:

• Responsibilities as of Day 1 - you will feel the ownership of your work from the beginning, and you will be given specific ownership areas and responsibilities.
• Continuous mentorship - you will work with passionate p