OVERVIEW

General Mills India supports multiple plants, warehouses, and business teams in the US. This role combines people leadership, service management, replenishment, and network planning responsibilities.

- The incumbent will collaborate across Distribution, Supply, Demand Planning, and System Governance teams to improve case-fill efficiency, balance cost and operational constraints, lead a team of distribution planners, and proactively manage service risks in partnership with US replenishment managers and planning teams.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Strategic responsibilities

- Lead logistics operations through strong partnership, coaching, and cross-functional collaboration

- Drive distribution planning for assigned Operating Units and distribution centers while meeting service KPIs and optimizing supply chain costs

- Own tactical deployment decisions and process governance for the assigned network

- Support short-term network and replenishment strategies in partnership with US Replenishment Managers

- Enable problem-solving across transportation, warehousing, plant outbound, and network capacity constraints

Operational Responsibilities

- Build expertise in planning systems such as SAP, OMP, Inventory Analyst, and related tools

- Share regular updates on key service, inventory, and operational metrics with stakeholders

- Collaborate across supply chain teams to improve product and information flow

- Ensure process compliance and drive continuous improvement initiatives

- Actively contribute to team forums, training, and knowledge-sharing sessions

- Drive Run, Improve, and Transform ways of working

- Partner with Replenishment, Operating Units, and D&T; teams on planning, transformation, efficiency, and cost-saving initiatives

- Lead automation, standardization, benchmarking, and scalable solution development

- Set goals, develop talent, and manage key people processes

- Support capability transitions and deployment training across the distribution planning organization

Projects





- Partner with Replenishment team in Spring Plan activities

- Collaborate with Replenishment, Operating Units, D&T; teams to drive improve/Transform projects in Deliver space

- Lead organization/Function level initiatives to drive efficiencies and cost savings.

Continuous Improvement:

- Build Architectural solutions through Automation, Standardization, Lean approach etc.

- Build sustainable and order winning solutions for the problems.

- Collaborate across with various team to implement defined solutions.

- Perform external competitive benchmarking and analysis.

- Lead Cost savings initiatives

- Lead ideation and drive implementation to deliver organizational goals.

- Develop sustainable tools for the capabilities.

Continuing Professional Career Development

- Participate in soft skills training driven by L&D; Team

- Leveraging Future skills & Supply chain university platform to explore emerging technologies & enhance Supply chain skills.

People Responsibilities

- Participating in developing goals and objectives for the Fiscal Year

- Energize and develop people by collaborating across boundaries.

- Complete annual performance management processes (annual objective setting, performance assessment and reviews, IDP, etc.)

Organizational Effectiveness

- Lead/Support development and Transition of new capabilities across Distribution planning organization.

- Develop best in class Training framework for Deployment

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelors with 12+ years or Masters with 10+ years of relevant experience

- Good understanding of planning and ERP systems such as SAP, OMP, O9, Inventory Analyst, and Tableau

- Robust project management, analytical, and critical thinking skills

- Continuous improvement mindset with a proactive, solution-oriented approach

- Ability to manage ambiguity, multitask, prioritize, and deliver under tight timelines

- Ability to translate business insights into actionable outcomes

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Masters degree

- 8 years of related experience

- Major Area of Study in Supply Chain

- Preferred Professional Certifications: APICS – CSCP, PMP, Six Sigma

📌 Sr Manager Deployment, Service and Replenishment (Mumbai)
🏢 General Mills
📍 Mumbai