Distribution Planner Lead

Role: DRP Leader

Location : Bangalore, India

Role Type: Permanent

Join our Supply Team

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, Diageo is home to some of the world's most iconic drinks. From Johnnie Walker and Guinness to Tanqueray, Smirnoff and Don Julio, we craft brands chosen for life's moments - from everyday connections to landmark celebrations.

Bring your talent, curiosity and ambition, and strive for your personal best alongside people who challenge, support and learn from each other. Together, as one outstanding team, we keep learning, improving and raising the bar for our brands, our business and each other.

Join us and play your part in making life's moments mean a little more.

About this Role

The Distribution Requirements Planner's (DRP) Leader primary role is to lead a team of DRP located across APAC, enabling smooth DRP operations and the team to deliver service, cash, cost, SLOB and capability.

The role also drives a strong team culture, develops planning capabilities, and builds a high-performing planning organization.

Given the long end-to-end supply cycle, the role is critical in driving robust demand planning, market accountability and proactive risk management. The Planning Leader will establish clear ways of working across inbound and outbound planning, drive root cause analysis of demand and supply variances, challenge assumptions, and ensure risks and misses are communicated early with clear mitigation actions and ownership.

You will be responsible for:

• Coach, mentor and develop supply planning team.
• Ensure Supply Planning systems and processes in place are aligned to global supply planning standards.
• Delivery of optimal supply network plan to meet customer service OTIFNE targets and drive Diageo inventory performance to level of top 3 CPG companies.
• Own appropriate inventory policies in partnership with markets to deliver upon agreed business targets.
• Represent Supply in leading S&OP process, balancing demand and supply signals whilst ensuring strategy and annual targets can be delivered.
• Lead and embed continuous improvement agenda across wider supply planning team enabling effective delivery of performance improvement plans prioritised by business targets. Including customer service and inventory targets.
• Track progress of performance improvement plans and course correct to consistently ensure projected benefits are achieved.
• Address any supply disruption or conflict situation through consensus solution or recommendation for escalation.
• Coach, mentor and develop supply planning team.

• 5 years + Supply Chain planning experience in CPG (Demand Planning, Supply Planning, SMR, Logistics).
• Additionally, some wider cross functional experience preferable e.g. commercial, finance or supply.
• Exceptional systems experience within supply chain optimisation platforms (ERP / master data, time-phased replenishment planning systems, SAP, APO,OMP).
• Understand, implement and sustain global supply planning codification agenda.
• Detailed understanding of end-to-end supply chain operational processes e.g. DRP, MPS, inventory, conversion, logistics and customer service.
• Exceptional influencing and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to challenge senior stakeholders and manage tension in demand/supply and S&OP conversations.
• Exceptional communication skills - verbal, written and presentation.
• Customer centric mind set.
• Numerate with statistical, and analytical skills and attention to detail.
• High degree of quantitative and analytical skills.
• Proficient in MS applications e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access.

We are obsessed with building brands that will stand the test of time. Creativity with precision describes how we effectively combine data, insights and innovation, across the supply chain, with the creative flair our consumers expect from the custodian of some of the most iconic brands in the world. Our culture is rooted in a deep sense of our purpose, the personal connections we have to our brands, our relationships with each other and our passion to win in the marketplace. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. This means we must do business the right way, from grain to glass, and ensure our people are highly engaged and continuously learning.