Executive - Deployment

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India is among the top ten priority markets for General Mills, and hosts our Global Shared Services Centre. This is the Global Shared Services arm of General Mills Inc., which supports its operations worldwide. With over 1,300 employees in Mumbai, the center has capabilities in the areas of Supply Chain, Finance, HR, Digital and Technology, Sales Capabilities, Consumer Insights, ITQ (R&D & Quality), and Enterprise Business Services. Learning and capacity-building is a key ingredient of our success.

**Job Description**:
**Job Overview**:
To monitor inventory levels of all assigned products at every General Mills location every day; creating, or adjusting replenishment requisitions as necessary deploying General Mills products across the network in order to achieve service level targets within acceptable cost parameters.

**Responsibilities**:
50%

of Time

Operational responsibilities - Distribution Planning
- Review system generated service alerts daily. Deploy FG inventory across the network (General Mills CSF/warehouses) to achieve service level case-fill goals while balancing the inventory constraints with transportation costs.
- Maintain inventory levels at all Warehouses (CSFs) within expected tolerances (space/transportation/inventory constraints).
- Create/Adjust deployment requisitions to ensure smooth and steady flow of product to the CSFs
- Review product obsolescence/age management reports to proactively re-deploy inventory across locations as needed
- Review actual inventory movement vs. forecast to proactively react to demand trends (High/Low)

20%

of Time

Co-ordination
- Co-ordinate with GMI distribution resources that include CSF Planners, Plant planners, Transportation Coordinators, Production Schedulers, Demand Planning and other US-based resources
- Schedule meetings with Plants to align on processes and identify opportunities for process improvements
- Participate in the meetings for Seasonal SKUs, New products, Customer specific promotions, service meetings
- Actively participate in Staff meetings, Knowledge sharing sessions, Trainings, Collaboration

15%

of Time

Analysis & Reporting
- Identify the reasons for shortfalls on customer orders
- Investigate Off
- Strategy Distribution movements- Analyze and report Key Performance Indicator’s (KPI’s
- case fills, mode mix, reposition $ etc.) affecting the transportation costs.- Provide Service risk projections for short term and long term
- Analyze & report key drivers (demand trends/production etc.) impacting variances in weekly service level performance

15%

of Time

Additional Responsibilities
- Weekly Service sheet preparation with proper root cause analysis
- Identify opportunities for process improvements
- Perform System updates/maintenance as necessary
- Co-ordinate process documentation
- Desk Manuals, Job Task Analysis and Critical Task Lists and conducting audit for the same.- Work on Special Projects as assigned

**Education**

Minimum Degree Requirements:
Bachelors

Preferred Degree Requirements:
Masters

Preferred Major Area of Study:
Supply Chain

**Experience**

Minimum years of related experience required:
Bachelors (2+ years) ;

Preferred years of related experience:
2-4

**Specific Job Experience or Skills Needed**:
Broad Perspective

Decision making

Interpersonal effectiveness

Learning Agility

Energize and Develop people

Technical and Process Leadership

**Additional Information**:
Distribution planning of the inventory from Production plants to warehouses to meet customer service level of 98.5%. Utilizing systems SAP capabilities to create requisitions and building outbound shipments based on the forecast in the system at an item location level. The other cost related KPIs, viz
- Repositioning, Load Efficiency and Mode utilization needs to be balanced as per the Customer service levels.

Shift: 3.30 pm - 12.30 am

Company Overview:
We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.