Senior End to End Planner

Relocation Assistance Offered Within Country
# 155363 - Kansas City, Kansas, United States

Who We Are
Colgate-Palmolive Company is a caring, innovative growth company that is reimagining a healthier future for all people, their pets and our planet. Focused on Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition, we sell our products in more than 200 countries and territories under brands such as Colgate, Palmolive, elmex, hello, meridol, Sorriso, Tom’s of Maine, EltaMD, Filorga, Irish Spring, PCA SKIN, Protex, Sanex, Softsoap, Speed Stick, Ajax, Axion, Fabuloso, Soupline and Suavitel, as well as Hill’s Pet Nutrition.

We are recognized for our leadership and innovation in promoting sustainability and community wellbeing, including our achievements in decreasing plastic waste and promoting recyclability, saving water, conserving natural resources and improving children’s oral health.

If you want to work for a company that lives by their values, then give your career a reason to smile and join our global team!
 

Senior End to End Planner

This role performs an end to end planning for all new product introductions (NPI), end of life (EOL) and product transitions. The role will require solid understanding of the end to end planning process. A mix of technical and interpersonal skills will be needed to optimally lead both the planning results as well as the communication to extended teams.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

- Act as E2E planner / planning project manager for all US and Canada NPI, EOL, and sku transitions

• Lead demand, supply, replenishment planning for new, transition and “to be discontinued” products 
• Connect with all planning teams to ensure synchronization of activities
• Identify potential over or under supply situations and work with extended team to resolve with minimal impact to customers or P&L

- Development of repeatable and automated planning processes for NPI/EOL and transition

• Lead development of customization and automation in Kinaxis Rapid-Response to automate and minimize “touches” in NPI/EOL planning process
• Track and communicate results of individual launches as well as process improvements to a broad audience including Sr. Leadership.

 

Personal accountability:

• Displays skills to unlocking potential of new planning solutions to automate tedious planning tasks
• Apply creative thinking and problem solving skills to support business processes
• Display a growth mindset & “can do” demeanor
• Take personal accountability for the delivery of key initiatives and projects

 

Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor's Degree in engineering, finance, statistics, computer science, business or related field

- At least 5 years in supply chain planning roles with a detailed knowledge of:

• Inventory planning with multi echelon inventory optimization
• Demand Planning and demand sensing
• Materials Planning
• Replenishment Planning
• Production Master Scheduling
• Customer order processing

- Significant experience successfully planning new products and managing discontinuations

- Experience in:

• Excel or Google Sheets
• Visualization tools (Power BI, Domo, Sigma, and/or Tableau)
• Supply chain planning software (Kinaxis Rapid-Response (highly preferred), SAP IBP, SAP APO, etc) 
• SAP R/3, ECC or S4

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• APICS certification
• Experience in SQL and Python, Cloud environments (Snowflake, Google Cloud Platform) 

Compensation and Benefits
Salary Range $88,800.00 - $131,250.00 USD

Pay is based on multiple non-discriminatory, individualized factors including but not limited to experience, job-related knowledge and education, skills and office/market location. In addition to base salary, salaried employees are eligible for annual discretionary bonuses, profit-sharing and, for Executive-level (salary grade 16 and above) roles only, long-term incentives in the form of Restricted Stock Units and/or Stock Options.

Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable benefits plans then in effect, all salaried employees are also eligible for a competitive benefits package which includes:

• Insurance: Employees (and their eligible dependents) are eligible to participate in Company-sponsored Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic Life Insurance, Accidental Death & Dismemberment and Disability insurance plans.
• Retirement Plans: Employees are eligible to enroll in Colgate's 401(k) plan, which provides for company matching contributions subject to eligibility requirements
• Vacation/PTO: Employees receive a minimum of 15 days of vacat