Planning Lead, Canada – Elida Beauty
Work Location – Remote based in Toronto, Canada
Job Type - Full Time

Who are we?

Elida Beauty is a very exciting new beauty business within Unilever. We re-found iconic brands by remixing them for today’s generation, making them even bigger beauty hits than they were first time around.

Our global brands include: TIGI - Q-tips - VO5 - Impulse - TONI&GUY - Monsavon - Timotei - Caress - Noxema - Fissan - Lever 2000 - Matey - Badedas - Williams - Brylcreem - Brut - Alberto Balsam - Ponds

Being a part of Elida Beauty gives you the opportunity to...

Your Role & Key Responsibilities
We are looking for an experienced end to end Planner who has a very strong growth mindset and a can-do culture of doing what it takes to win. We’re looking for someone who thrives in balancing brand, consumer, customers, with the ambition to deliver a substantial step up in profitable growth of the current perimeter.
You will play a crucial role in the S&OP process, ensuring that you are supporting the commercial strategy and vision through the delivery of an accurate SKU/channel level forecast taking into account information from key stakeholders (Commercial, Finance, Marketing) and you will play a crucial role in the DSR process for all FG products in the Canadian market, ensuring that you are supporting the commercial strategy and vision through the delivery right capacity allocation and stock levels in the global supply network.

Your Key Responsibilities

• E2E execution of Strategies of both Demand and Supply Planning Teams
• Support collaboration with CD, Marketing, Finance to incorporate key marketing and trade initiatives into the demand & supply forecasts. Collaboration includes working with innovations planner to ensure repack requirements are captured, executed, and delivered to meet customer requirements. Works closely with 3rd party manufacturing (3PM) procurement to ensure proper levels of inventory to achieve the plan while ensuring inventory targets are still being met.
• Leads S&OP, Forecasting and Promotion Planning to ensure all departments are aligned to business plan as well as challenging assumptions
• Leads Demand Supply Reconciliation (DSR), sourcing and capacity planning for FGs to ensure the right stock and capacity are available to support the business plan; transforms the constrained FG forecast into a supply / requirement plan

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university, preferably in business, finance or supply chain management.
• 3-5 years of experience in Planning
• Demonstrated analytical and conceptual problem-solving ability; excellent oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills
• Ability to multi-task, meet tight deadlines and work under pressure with autonomy
• The ability to effectively lead and engage cross functional global teams and a willingness to take responsibility and accountability
• Demonstrated self-starter with the ability to deliver results in a lean, agile organization and able to adapt to changing priorities
• Experience working with statistical forecasting software, operational experience of Demantra a plus
• Advanced Excel Skills
• Experience with SQL and/or PowerBI/Demantra a plus

Excited about the Role?
Please apply online. Your application will be reviewed against our requirements and we will be in touch to provide you with an update on the status of your application.

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