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.inWe advocate for advancing equity and inclusion to create more equitable workplaces and a better tomorrow.

JOB OVERVIEW

This role is responsible for the supply planning activities of Semi and finished product planning executed by the global planning hub. Sustaining and continuously improving the capability by reviewing the impact on business KPI’s, along with supporting the scalability and standardization across the globe will be a key responsibility of this role. This is a global role and works closely with all the regional planning teams, regional COE’s and IPT in implementing, sustaining, and improving the global planning standards developed by IPT.

Key Accountabilities

70% Of Time

• Owns market supply planning including product availability management, inventory strategy definition and stock optimization
• Owns supply chain interface between market SC and upstream (plants/ESC) supply
• Ensures timely and cost-effective replenishment of stock to origin W/H from plant based on Demand insights
• Minimize shortage risks and proactively communicate risks to market SC team
• Manage the stock policy & shelf life to ensure service and reduce product waste
• Accurate maintenance of supply parameters (master data) in SAP and other systems (MTS model)
• Collaborate with in market SC team to enable value through HMM & other initiatives
• Collaborate with market SC team to build SLAs with plants/ESCs and ensure compliance
• Provide visibility of KPIs through reports along with actionable insights

10% Of Time Processes and Procedures

• Analyze data to identify problematic areas and suggest improvements
• Validate system-driven activities and system out put
• Run supply segmentation models, including analyzing the segmentation standards and providing ongoing feedback to refresh/update.

20% Stakeholder Management:

• Maintain and develop relationships with key partners across IPT and regional supply COE’s to encourage best practice sharing and cross functional collaboration.
• Collaborate with a broad spectrum of stakeholders within supply chain including but not limited to Regional supply COE, Concurrent supply planners, IPL, Deployment, Replenishment, Finite planners, Inventory analysts and Integrated Scenario modelers to incorporate strategies and drive solver performance
• Partner and understand stakeholders’ requirements across all regional supply teams and collaborate with IPT and hub supply Planning lead for business solution development.
• Provide analytical and data support to the supply planning lead (COE), concurrent supply planners, finite schedulers, material planners (Region), Customer Service and Logistics.
• Capture inventory and supply plan alerts and exceptions and triage for Concurrent Supply Planners, Finite Schedulers, and Material Planners
• Maintain and develop relationships with stakeholders, encourage and enhance cross function collaborations.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• 1-3 years of relevant experience in planning, forecasting process, basic operations, inventory planning, and statistical analysis
• Understanding of logistics and supply chain processes
• Familiarity with industry and business nuances
• Knowledge of GMI data inputs and sources of data
• Understanding of planning tools (OMP and SAP ERP)
• Ability to process and evaluate large data sets
• Usage of data process and visualization tools (e.g. Tableau)
• Effective communication skills
• Organizational ability and attention to detail

Competencies: Engage with purpose by building relationships

• Build relationships within the function and across the Supply Chain and collaborate to make decisions and achieve goals
• Build trust by involving others in issues that affect them and communicating openly and honestly

Demonstrate agility by showing curiosity and being culturally agile

• Ensure the team challenges the status quo
• Ensure the team learns from mistakes and failures
• Be self-aware and humble
• Value differences and treat them as an opportunity to gain diverse perspectives and broaden thinking

Leverage standardized processes

• Ensure teams adhere to safety and other existing processes to produce consistent, repeatable results
• Ensure teams use continuous Improvement and other best practices to drive food and human safety and zero-loss
• Ensure teams leverage opportunities to use consistent processes across organizational boundaries
• Identify and remove barriers that prevent teams from achieving zero loss

Leverage expertise by being broad and going deep

• Understand the General Mills business and how the Supply Chain delivers business value
• Help the team understand how the integrated Supply Chain delivers value to customers
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of core Supply Chain capabilities
• Help the team understand the interdependencies within the Supply Chain

Seize opportunities by thinking outside-In

• Take a broad perspective when making decisions and solving problems
• Ensure priorities are consistent with functional direction and goals and reflect an understanding of the external business environment

Preferred Education:

• Minimum Degree Requirements: Bachelors
• Preferred Degree Requirements: Masters
• Preferred Major Area of Study: Operations
• Required Professional Certifications: N/A
• Preferred Professional Certifications: CSCMP, APICS

Preferred Experience

• Minimum years of related experience required:2 Years
• Preferred years of related experience:3 to 5 Years