About General Mills

We make food the world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Häagen-Dazs, we’ve been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell.

How we make our food is as important as the food we make. Our values are baked into our legacy and continue to accelerate

us into the future as an innovative force for good. General Mills was founded in 1866 when Cadwallader Washburn boldly bought the largest flour mill west of the Mississippi. That pioneering spirit lives on today through our leadership team who upholds a vision of relentless innovation while being a force for good. For more details check out http://www.generalmills.com

General Mills India Center (GIC) is our global capability center in Mumbai that works as an extension of our global organization delivering business value, service excellence and growth, while standing for good for our planet and people.

With our team of 1800+ professionals, we deliver superior value across the areas of Supply chain (SC) , Digital & Technology (D&T) Innovation, Technology & Quality (ITQ), Consumer and Market Intelligence (CMI), Sales Strategy & Intelligence (SSI) , Global Shared Services (GSS) , Finance Shared Services (FSS) and Human Resources Shared Services (HRSS).For more details check out https://www.generalmills.co.in

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Job Overview

Function Overview

The GIC Supply Chain team manages end-to-end operations, encompassing planning, sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, and analytics. They strategically plan to meet market demands, optimize sourcing, ensure efficient production, and oversee the seamless movement of goods from production to delivery. The team employs advanced analytics throughout these processes, fostering adaptability and operational excellence. This collaborative approach ensures a well-coordinated supply chain that aligns with both organizational goals and dynamic market conditions. Link

Purpose of the role

Supply chain analytics group is responsible for delivering the solutions and developing the capabilities which enables better decision-making in supply chain. This team works closely with all supply chain functions (i.e., plan, source, make, deliver and customer service teams), business units and other cross functional partners for developing solutions to drive business value. This team also drives step-change innovation and improvements in business practices by delivering actionable insights through advanced analytics and supply chain expertise.

The role involves building, maintaining, and executing optimization and simulation models to help identify, analyze, and implement opportunities in the areas of manufacturing network design and optimization, supply network planning and realignment by incorporating supply chain costs, manufacturing complexity, inventory optimization and capacity. The Sr Analyst supports the Supply Planning teams in identifying opportunities for manufacturing & distribution network and provides least cost sourcing and distribution options. Works on strategic projects and new capability development and enhancement initiatives.

Key Accountabilities

Requirement Gathering & Data Collection (20% of Time)

· Understand Project charter- Business context, Scope, Outcome & success criteria.

· Understand decisions to be taken through the model – Sourcing, Inventory targets, Capacity optimization, Network change, service risk analysis, Plant/DC Open/Close, Greenfield location, Customer realignment or supply chain design.

· Understand data availability & build customized data template to collect data.

· Performed data cleaning- Outlier, Missing data etc, & provide summary of collected data to the client.

Model Building & Scenario Evaluation (30% of Time)

· Develop different modeling approaches/techniques to solve the business problem at hand and recommends the best approach.

· Formulate the mathematical model & use appropriate tool to build the model – Supply chain Guru, Excel solver etc.

· Build the baseline and validate it with business /stakeholder.

· Analyze large set of business data, derive useful insights & communicate the same to project manager and/or client.

· Build /Evaluate multiple scenarios through the model.

· Carry output validation & generate insight

Model result analysis & presentation (30% of Time)

· Carry out the result analysis and provide business insights to project manager/stakeholders.

· Build presentation, methodology documents & assumption documents.

· Communicate effectively with broad audience i.e., client/stakeholders/cross functional teams.

· Use advanced optimization & simulation tools to build the models & run different sensitivity (what-if) scenarios

Other Responsibilities (20% of Time)

· Take small routine decisions and seek supervision when needed.

· Interact with cross functional teams/stakeholders on regular basis to share opportunity areas and help them to reduce the losses.

· Drive innovation in providing solutions to business problems.

Minimum qualifications