Job Description :

Job Title

General Manager - Regional Planning Lead (West & Central)
 

About the Function:

Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing, and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo’s 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It’s an intricate and sophisticated operation that’s the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.

Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We’re committed to realizing our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’ goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we’ll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture.

About the Role:

General Manager - Regional Planning (West & Central ) is a key regional leadership position responsible for S&OP function within the region.

The General Manager – Regional Planning will play a pivotal leadership role in shaping and executing the end-to-end supply chain and business planning agenda across the West and Central regions. This role requires a strong strategic mindset, operational excellence, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure robust business delivery and long-term regional competitiveness.

The role leads end-to-end S&OP processes for the regions across demand, replenishment, and supply planning while ensuring alignment with manufacturing and other functions. A key focus will be on delivering superior customer service through proactive planning and issue resolution. Person should drive Digitization and Automation. The role also drives Productivity projects, manages product launches, inventory management, and supports manufacturing footprint projects. As the single point of contact, the GM ensures regional strategy execution aligned with overall business goals.

Timely execution of S&OP cycle & running demand planning meeting with commercial team for coming months/Quarter.

Delivery of NSV for the month/Quarter. S&OP cycle has multiple sub timelines in the months ~ 5-6 timebound O9 runs that needs timely closure. Activity are critical as other runs such as Material, production etc. are interdepended.

Lead meeting with Commercial team to estimate correct demand and timely deliver the NSV targets

Daily operational review – Tracking of inventory and ensuring no stock outs by taking proactive actions and replenishment cycle. Any material, production related challenge also needs to be reviewed along with day to day operational challenges if any New product introduction - Collaborate with cross functional teams to ensure  on time launches of new products. Work with central planning team to minimize SLOB during renovation projects. Work with commercial teams for new product forecasting LR registration - Track LMR for all SKU in the region and coordinate in case they require revision Process Improvement and Productivity - Drive continuous improvement in the supply chain process. Deliver productivity savings and implement supply chain tools and systems in line with central digitization strategy.

Qualifications and Experience Required - Engineer and MBA in Supply Chain Management from a premier Institute preferably

8-12 years of post MBA experienceExperience in planning in a reputed organization with mature supply planning processes in the FMCG / CPG spaceExperience of managing large number of SKU complexityUnderstanding of end to end supply chain and businessDigital capability (experience of implementing supply chain tools and systems)

Flexible Working Statement:

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.
 

Diversity statement:

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

RPC Mumbai

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2025-07-17