Planning Manager

**Genuine Parts Company (GPC)** is the global leader in automotive aftermarket parts distribution, operating for nearly 100 years and encompassing several significant international businesses around the globe.

Our Asia Pacific businesses include the iconic **Repco**, the largest aftermarket automotive business **NAPA**, **AMX, Mcleod Accessories**, and **Sparesbox**. Our brand stands for quality, expertise, and knowledge.

We are currently seeking a **Planning Manager **to lead demand and supply planning, maximising cost effectiveness and providing accurate forecasting and schedule purchasing within the business.

**Responsibilities include**:

- Be responsible for leading the demand and supply inputs/outputs for a complex portfolio of products.
- Balance working capital investment, availability targets and customer contractual obligations.
- Lead monthly demand and supply performance reviews, presenting performance, purchase order status, availability constraints and working capital scenarios.
- Weekly reports for KPI's to planning team with risk identifications, improvement outcome plans and rectification timelines.
- Interpret and manage the daily issues that arise because of changes in demand, and / or supply constraints that impact supply outlook.
- Lead supply integration and drive alignment towards a single supply plan.
- Drive continuous improvement in demand planning processes and develop improvements within the replenishment platform.
- Manage KPI targets that will hold the team to a high level of accountability and delivery.
- Maintain supply data accuracy with all purchase order key attributes.
- Ensure compliance with company policies and procedures.

**To be successful in your role you need to possess**:

- An understanding and demonstrated ability to define and implement improvement initiatives across supply planning processes
- Demonstrated experience leading supply planning function within complex, multi-segment distribution organisation
- Knowledge of and experience with S&OP / IBP processes and responsibilities
- Experience working across complex business structures without direct line authority to deliver required business outcomes and change
- Demonstrated stakeholder management at senior levels
- Knowledge of and experience with Advanced planning systems, statistical forecasting techniques and inventory management techniques and systems
- Competency with techniques for change management
- Demonstrated experience in developing team capabilities

**Looking after you**:
We are committed to ensuring our people are well looked after. In addition to a rewarding and challenging career, we will provide:

- Staff discounts across the GPC Asia Pacific group of Companies
- Private health insurance discounts
- Employee assistance program
- A highly safety conscious work environment
- We proactively support our working parents in a variety of meaningful ways, and our parental leave top-up allowance is one of the ways we do this
- Paid volunteer leave allowing you to give back to your chosen charity/community organisation
- Access to GPC's exciting employee platform MOVE, unlocking amazing discounts at top retailers, business announcements, e-cards and our employee recognition program, plus so much more

**GPC Asia Pacific**:
Movement is in our DNA. We are **GPC Asia Pacific**: one of the largest industrial and automotive aftermarket parts and service suppliers in Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia. Our iconic brands include Repco, NAPA, McLeod Accessories and Motion Industries.

Yet we are more than just a parts and service company. We propel people forward.

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GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.