Supply & Demand Planner

Relocation Assistance Offered Within Country
# 159349 - Overland Park, 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!
 

Supply & Demand Planner

Are you a supply chain enthusiast eager to make a global impact? We are looking for a Supply & Demand Planner to join our team at our Hill's Pet Nutrition Global Headquarters. This is your chance to shine in a role where your drive for Supply excellence and unwavering dedication to customer happiness will not only be valued but celebrated. If you're ready to thrive in a fast-paced environment, we want you on our team!

 

This role  will responsible for orchestrating efficiently the supply and demand synchronization process by ensuring efficient and reliable supply of US manufactured products to Hill’s warehouses & locations outside of North America.

 

Responsibilities:

• Track demand requirements call out and understand changes, collaborate with other regions and production planning to support demand fulfillment. 
• Monitor the supply vs demand required on a weekly/monthly basis (shipment vs requirements) by region, size, brand, SKU level and provide an executive summary with the accomplishment, highlights and actions needed to close potential gaps.
• Use available planning tools to identify and mitigate product shortages, SLOB’s, aging product and work closely with the Supply Network Planning and regions team to set priorities and communicate action plans, gaps and critical issues proactively. 
• Lead and provide supply status to the Customer Service & Logistics teams, and our Subsidiaries (Asia, Japan, South Pacific, EMEA, LATAM), communicate supply risks, inventory management.
• Support regions, global/regional Marketing, Network Operations, Finance, and CS&L teams to ensure preparedness and timely execution of new product initiative and transition SKU’s, geo expansion SKU’s 
• Understand and work closely with different teams (Network Operations, Warehouse, Supply Network Planning, Regulatory) to meet requirements and supply restrictions based on manufacturing - regions destination regulatory requirements. 
• Create and understand trends, analytics to find gaps in the process to be able to re enforce the processes. 
• Perform regular warehouse and logistic capacity analysis weighing demand vs supply for short and mid term to establish flawless operation, and communicate any risks for the US Export Exclusive Warehouses and Logistics Operations. 
• Collaborate with Global Supply Chain, Customer Service & Logistics,, and external business partners to drive operational efficiencies, execute supply network strategies and achieve key performance indicators.
• Support quarterly master data updates such as: US Exports Transit Time review in SAP and understanding on Planning Parameters to drive optimal automated planning processes. 
• Support policies and targets for forward looking global SKU stock coverage optimization, inventory projections, and global month-end finished goods inventory reporting (units and pounds).

 

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business, Engineering or related field.
• 3 - 5 years prior experience in Supply Chain roles.
• Application of Supply Chain optimization tools / methodologies, SAP S/4, APO,  Microsoft Excel, and Google Suite.  

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Kinaxis Rapid Response experience
• Understanding of SQL and data management systems.

 

 

Compensation and Benefits
Salary Range $81,200.00 - $120,000.00 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 emp