Ld&t Planner

**Overview**:
**Job purpose**:
**Objective & Purpose**:
Lead Supply & Material Planning for Potato Chips Category for PepsiCo India Region to ensure efficient inventory management and Product availability by coordinating with Agro, Procurement, Plants, Sales, and Category.
**Scope**: Production and Material Planning for Potato Chips Category for PAN India (~130 SKUs) spanning across 4 Manufacturing units. Rough Cut Capacity Planning, Network Optimization, Replenishment Planning, Inventory Optimization, MRP through ESP / JDA Responsible for Service & COST KPI’s: OTIF, MPS Adherence, DC, Primary Freight Cost, SLOB and Productivity New products, promotions, MRP changes leading to almost 300+ projects per year as per NPD commercialization calendar.

**Responsibilities**:
**Accountability**:
Accountable for ensuring that the Sales Demand Compliance is met at AOP levels at the most optimum cost and the most optimum sourcing network (Decide & Execute)
Accountable for providing monthly and weekly production plans to the plants to meet the sale demand while ensuring plant requirements are met (Decide)
Accountable for executing all innovations, changeovers, NPDs within stipulated timelines support the innovation agenda for PepsiCo (Decide & Execute)
Responsible for driving the ESP / JDA modules for Supply Planning and Material Planning - Tactical Sourcing, DRP, RP, IO and SAP MRP (Decide, Execute)
Drive continuous improvement in supply planning through network optimization by leveraging technology tools such as Llamasoft (Decide, Execute)
Act as the single point of contact for sales, category, R&D for any supply/ production related intervention at plants (Being Informed, Provide consultation)
Drive network productivity YoY by ensuring sourcing through most optimum network and by facilitating decisions for capacity augmentations to support network requirement (Decide)
Facilitate Capacity Planning for AOP and SBP in collaboration with P&P to ensure new capacities come at the right location and at the right brand, pack mix. (Being Informed, Provide consultation)
Lead the initiative on E2E cost optimization in planning to support profitable growth agenda for India business in collaboration with Finance, Agro, Manufacturing (Decide, Execute)
Facilitate the S&OP process from supply perspective by ensuring alignment and timely course correction to plan and review all demands - NPD, Innovation etc. (Provide consultation)
Ensure optimum stock levels to meet sales demand as stipulated demand compliance levels while driving continuous improvement in working capital levels for for India in collaboration with finance (Being Informed, Provide consultation, Execute)
Custodian of FG write off, RM/PM are kept to a minimum and have constant improvement Year on Year through efficient planning and by collaborating with Sales and Plants (Decide, Provide consultation, Execute)
Optimize between Freight and Service levels in a constantly changing supply scenario through technology intervention, collaborating with field teams to optimize sourcing to support Primary freight delivery (Decide, Provide consultation, Execute)

**Qualifications**:
EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
8+ years of Supply Chain/ Logistics Operations with preferred FMCG Experience
Bachelor’s degree with an MBA preferable in Supply Chain/ Operation management from B School
Proven Experience in Supply chain Planning, Inventory management and related Jobs.
Good Process automation knowledge of Planning tool - JDA, OMP, SAP and LLamasoft
Experience in leading a mature S&OP enabled Supply Chain team
Strong analytics Skills with Proficiency in data analysis tools and techniques
Excellent communication, influencing and collaborative skills
Outward looking with a real understanding of the key customer requirements and developments