CBS Supply Network Planning Team Lead

No Relocation Assistance Offered
Job Number#164295 - Del.Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City, Mexico

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Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specialising in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!

Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.

Job Summary:

The Supply Network Planning Manager leads a centralized team for a couple of regions or Divisions tasked with ensuring the replenishment of the distribution network in meeting overall demand, establishment of priorities, decision-making on product fair share allocation in case of shortage, managing seasonality, supporting the alert reviews with the plants and synchronization of new product introduction, and sourcing transitions.
Managerial responsibilities also include delivering an improved linkage to the Demand Planning and Production Planning, seeking to reduce business complexity and to improve finished goods inventory level, service and quality.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Acting as a liaison between Demand Planning and Production Planning, ensuring: Product availability at DC’s, right-Sized inventory levels, synchronization of new product introduction and sourcing transitions, reduction of no value added complexity.
2. Coordination of Demand & Supply Synchronization: chairing and directing the relevant meetings/calls within the weekly and monthly disciplines.
3. Lead the Category Replenishment Planning Process: balance target Service Level to customers, Finished Goods inventory, and Replenishment Costs.
4. Empower team members: provide training, information sharing, coaching, feedback, appraisals, and delegation to ensure the development of people and organizational capabilities.
5. Support continuous improvement initiatives: develop and implement best practices related to finished goods replenishment, supply planning discipline, alert management to help us reduce unnecessary exceed stock and system utilization.
6. Collaboration: identify and close gaps with Demand Planning, Production Planning, Transportation, Warehouse Operations and Customer Service to achieve efficient, cost-effective supply planning in meeting CS&L service and cost goals/KPI's and improving supplier responsiveness.
7. System/Process Development: Ensure development and implementation of "Best Practice" supply planning processes to be followed by team members in order to maximize customer service, minimize cost, and optimize inventory.

Required Qualifications:

1. Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering or similar.
2. 1 or 2 years of experience as Supply Network Planning Team Lead.
3. Work experience in the North America region.
4. Proficiency in SAP/APO order processing and fulfillment applications.
5. Strong communication skills, particularly with internal customers such as the CDO team.
6. Experience in order management and customer service processes.
7. Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and improve processes.

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