Logistics Analyst

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Supply

Our supply chain is the backbone of our business. It's how we get our trusted products to people all over the world, safely and efficiently. And it's our talented and passionate teams that make this happen. If you're looking for a career in supply chain, there's no better place to be than Reckitt. We offer a variety of exciting opportunities in all areas of the supply chain, from planning and procurement to manufacturing and logistics. You could join our Global Supply Planning team to develop and implement our global supply strategy, or work with our Procurement Centre of Excellence team to negotiate and manage our supplier relationships. Our Manufacturing Excellence team help us improve the efficiency, quality and safety of our manufacturing operations, and our Logistics Excellence team develop new and innovative ways to distribute our products to customers.

About The Role
This is a hybrid role with CPFR and Logistics responsibilities. The Collaborative, Planning, Forecast, & Replenishment (CPFR) Analyst is focused on the management of customer inventory replenishment and demand forecasts at the unique item level throughout its life cycle using internal Essential Home Integrated Business Planning (IBP) processes and customer-specific tools. This customer-facing role drives Supply Chain activities, supports customer in-stock and inventory targets, maintains fill rates, and executes overall Reckitt Supply Strategies. In this role, your work will benefit our customers by minimizing their excess inventory and maximizing our consumer sales. You will support joint success by acting as a liaison and key stakeholder to ensure accurate baseline and promotional customer forecasts and will be pivotal in bringing our customer and brand vision to life. This role requires strong E2E Supply Chain knowledge, cross-functional collaboration and partnership, and concise communication between internal and external stakeholders.

Your responsibilities

CPFR responsibilities

• Analyze customer's supply plan and optimize customer's replenishment process to meet in-stock, inventory and shared objectives while maintaining fill rates
• Lead weekly meetings with the customer to identify areas of opportunity and provide recommendations
• Evaluate information from multiple sources, providing insights and analysis for forecast drivers to the Sales team, customer, and the demand planning team
• Own internal communication with key stakeholders to call out exceptions in forecasts, flag risks and provide actionable recommendations
• Leverage your analytics to build a case for influencing internal and external customer behavior
• Utilize tools and reports, or create your own, to facilitate optimization of customer KPIs and identify the insights driving action in the data
• Manage complex projects that are within the scope of driving Supply Chain and Customer Replenishment efficiencies

Logistics responsibilities

• Coordinate with warehouse, 3PL and customer service team to overcome any operational challenges in order-to-cash cycle
• Track operational spends and costs with monthly reconciliation of invoices for a smooth month-end closure
• Closely tracking key logistics and transportation KPIs to ensure alignment with financial forecasts
• Collaborate with transportation team to facilitate finished goods importation and customs clearance process
• Facilitate internal/external audits and physical inventory reconciliation

The experience we're looking for

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain management or a business-related field is preferred
• Prior CPFR experience (at least 1 year)
• Proficient in business communications
• Strong analytical skills (excel based)
• Strong Analytical and computer skills (Excel, PowerPoint, and Word) skills

Preffered Qualifications

• CPFR experience
• 2+ years of CPG experience
• SAP experience

The skills for success

Supply Chain Management, Relationship Management, Business Accumen, Advanced Analytics, Data Analytics, Improve business processes, Advanced Analytics, Data Analytics, Distribution Logistics, Logistics Management, Management Third-party Logistics Providers, Supply Chain Planning, Supply Management, Procurement.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.

This role is not currently sponsoring visas or considering international movement at this time.