Materials Planner

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

​Supply​

Our supply chain is the backbone of our business. It's how we get our trusted products to people all over the world, safely and efficiently. And it's our talented and passionate teams that make this happen. If you're looking for a career in supply chain, there's no better place to be than Reckitt. We offer a variety of exciting opportunities in all areas of the supply chain, from planning and procurement to manufacturing and logistics. You could join our Global Supply Planning team to develop and implement our global supply strategy, or work with our Procurement Centre of Excellence team to negotiate and manage our supplier relationships. Our Manufacturing Excellence team help us improve the efficiency, quality and safety of our manufacturing operations, and our Logistics Excellence team develop new and innovative ways to distribute our products to customers.

About the role

As a Production Planner, you will oversee Finished Goods and the materials required to support efficient production operations. The role may also include purchasing packaging components such as labels, cartons, and other materials essential to packaging activities. Key responsibilities include reviewing MRP data, generating work orders and purchase orders, coordinating product changes, developing production schedules, providing shipping quantities to the logistics team, and partnering with Customer Service and Logistics Centers to prevent order cuts.

You will manage inventory levels across Logistics Centers by adjusting production plans to maintain a 99.65% pack fill rate. The position is also accountable for planning both upstream manufacturing and packaging operations.

Your responsibilities

•  Review MRP data daily and create/reschedule work orders

• Maintain accurate MRP settings: safety stock, lead times, planning fences, order policies, batch min/max

• Coordinate finished‑goods requirements to optimize pack fill rate and inventory levels

• Partner with Manufacturing, Materials, Logistics, and Planning on product changes and new launches

• Plan rework or purges for rejected materials

• Work with Demand and Materials Planning on finished‑goods discontinuations

• Coordinate bulk availability with bulk planner/scheduler

• Align production schedules with packaging‑material availability

• Participate in hiring and department goal‑setting

• Monitor material availability and schedule test runs for new products

• Resolve forecast deviations with Demand Planning

• Report weekly out‑of‑stock and distressed SKUs to Demand Planning and Customer Service

• Maintain ongoing communication with Demand Planning and Project Management on changes, promotions, and new products

This role is not currently sponsoring visas or considering international movement at this time.

The experience we're looking for

• AS degree preferred

• Minimum 2 years’ experience in manufacturing, planning, or purchasing

• Strong business relationship‑building skills

• FMCG industry experience preferred

• Proficient in MRP systems (Kinaxis strongly preferred)

• Solid understanding of Material Requirements Planning

• Strong organizational and problem‑solving skills

• Knowledge of manufacturing processes and machine capabilities

• Strong interpersonal skills; able to lead and coordinate across departments

• Proficient with MRP systems, spreadsheets, charts, and graphs

• Decisive, self‑motivated, and an effective communicator

The skills for success

Supply Chain Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Relationship Management, Business Acumen, Productivity management, Improve business processes, Advanced Analytics, Data Analytics, Supply Chain Planning, Logistics Management.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance f