Consultant – Demand Planning

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.

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.in

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Job Overview

Function Overview

The GIC Supply Chain team manages end-to-end operations, encompassing planning, sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, and analytics. They strategically plan to meet market demands, optimize sourcing, ensure efficient production, and oversee the seamless movement of goods from production to delivery. The team employs advanced analytics throughout these processes, fostering adaptability and operational excellence. This collaborative approach ensures a well-coordinated supply chain that aligns with both organizational goals and dynamic market conditions.

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Purpose of the role

The purpose of the job is to support Demand planning function through Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) by providing Innovative solutions and help implementing it to optimize/Standardize processes which will bring improvement to overall forecasting approach resulting in better planning of supply chain. Explore and take up opportunities which supports the demand planning efforts by creating and executing industry standard approaches.

Key Accountabilities

• Driving the Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) project for process governance, initiatives implementation, data acquisition and reporting across different markets such as SEA, LATAM, CEEMEA, NEDM etc.
• Build and define the scope and objective of project in collaborate with internal and external stakeholders with the needs of key distributors, ensuring consistency with customer requirements.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for all Supply Chain/CPFR-related discussions, initiatives, and issue resolutions.
• Establish and manage governance for demand planners regarding distributor data sharing, including sales reports, forward sales forecasts with agreed horizons, stock reports with freshness visibility, and goods receipt reports.
• Accountable for timely, accurate, and complete data acquisition and data upload process to Matrix-Control and govern report generation, ensuring dashboards are updated promptly for use by planners.
• Share and exchange best practices with stakeholders and company leadership to drive continuous improvement.
• Seamless Onboarding of new distributors into the CPFR.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, supply chain, industrial engineering or any other relevant field
• 2-3 years of experience in supply chain planning; and familiarity with forecasting, planning and distributor supply chains
• E2E supply chain expertise, its different related and interconnected KPI’s
• Stakeholder management
• Proven MS-Office skills
• Strong and effective communication skills and ability to work in different time zones
• Strong Verbal and written communication
• Working knowledge of data visualization software like Tableau
• Having a systematic and logical approach to problem-solving
• Good understanding of CPG/Retail supply chains
• Good knowledge of planning systems such as APO/OMP/O9

Preferred Qualifications

Education

• Minimum Degree Requirements: Bachelors
• Preferred Degree Requirements: Masters
• Preferred Major Area of Study: Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations management
• Preferred Professional Certifications: Project Management related Certification

Experience

• Minimum years of related experience required: 5
• Preferred years of related experience: 5 - 7

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.