About General Mills
We make food the world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Häagen-Dazs, we’ve been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell. How we make our food is as important as the food we make. Our values are baked into our legacy and continue to accelerate us into the future as an innovative force for good. General Mills was founded in 1866 when Cadwallader Washburn boldly bought the largest flour mill west of the Mississippi. That pioneering spirit lives on today through our leadership team, who upholds a vision of relentless innovation while being a force for good. For more details, check out http://www.generalmills.comGeneral Mills India Center (GIC) is our global capability center in Mumbai that works as an extension of our global organization, delivering business value, service excellence, and growth, while standing for good for our planet and people. With our team of 1800+ professionals, we deliver superior value across the areas of Supply chain (SC), Digital & Technology (D&T) Innovation, Technology & Quality (ITQ), Consumer and Market Intelligence (CMI), Sales Strategy & Intelligence (SSI), Global Shared Services (GSS), Finance Shared Services (FSS) and Human Resources Shared Services (HRSS). For more details, check out https://www.generalmills.co.inWe advocate for advancing equity and inclusion to create more equitable workplaces and a better tomorrow.
Job Overview
Function Overview
The Digital and Technology team at General Mills stands as the largest and foremost unit, dedicated to exploring the latest trends and innovations in technology while leading the adoption of cutting-edge technologies across the organization. Collaborating closely with global business teams, the focus is on understanding business models and identifying opportunities to leverage technology for increased efficiency and disruption. The team's expertise spans a wide range of areas, including AI/ML, Data Science, IoT, NLP, Cloud, Infrastructure, RPA and Automation, Digital Transformation, Cyber Security, Blockchain, SAP S4 HANA, and Enterprise Architecture. The MillsWorks initiative embodies an agile@scale delivery model, where business and technology teams operate cohesively in pods with a unified mission to deliver value for the company. Employees working on significant technology projects are recognized as Digital Transformation change agents.The team places a strong emphasis on service partnerships and employee engagement with a commitment to advancing equity and supporting communities. In fostering an inclusive culture, the team values individuals passionate about learning and growing with technology, exemplified by the "Work with Heart" philosophy, emphasizing results over facetime. Those intrigued by the prospect of contributing to the digital transformation journey of a Fortune 500 company are encouraged to explore more details about the function through the following link.
Purpose of the role
The role is of a Senior Analyst, Supply Chain in the Planning team. The role would be part of the supply chain team and responsibilities include implementing OMP solutions as part of IPT – Integrated Planning transformation, which is part of our End-to-End Integrated Planning project for Business. The responsibilities include Capabilities support in S&OP, SAP Support, IPT implementation, Design and testing for Planning Pillar and its associated products, and Capabilities. The role will also partner with Business capability leads in the US for IPT Implementation and help Planning Product team leads in India and, US, and help improve planning product team services concerning OMP solutions.
Key Accountabilities
- Collaborate with an indirect global cross-functional team to implement Supply Planning capabilities to power a globally standard Planning Pillar
- Partner with team members to identify functional gaps between the global template and the in-market business processes and identify solutions to meet business requirements.
- Configure OMP to meet in-market business requirements for Planning processes.
- Collaborate on specifications with OMP developers and perform an IS unit test on finished development.
- Create and maintain OMP application and system configuration documentation.
- Collaborate with the master data team to support the project master data requirements.
- Provide knowledge transfer to other team members as appropriate to ensure ongoing system support.
- Develop/Test and Implement new OMP functional module/enhancements as required.
- Troubleshooting and providing consulting services to businesses to overcome problems
- Deliver on various SLAs, support, and deliverables defined in ITSM
- Generate and implement your ideas on how to improve the operational and strategic sustainability of the ecosystem.
- Support and Run Upgrades, Integration, Extracts, Support reporting jobs, Plan Test scripts, and extensive technical OMP support across NAR, PET, and Intl business.
Minimum Qualifications
- Full-Time graduation from an accredited university with 5 years or more of SAP Techno-functional experience, including configuration, at least 1 end-to-end project implementation in MM/SD is mandatory
- Self-starter with experience leading through ambiguous projects & tasks
- Ability to work with and manage stakeholders at various levels within the organization and convert business challenges into technical solutions
- Ability to build local and global relationships across boundaries and work within a matrixed organization
- Ability to prioritize and complete multiple tasks on tight deadlines.
- Agile in understanding and proposing solutions.
- Experience and knowledge on one or more modules- Demand Planning, Supply Planning & Deployment, Finite Scheduling, Production planning of OMP planning tools.
- SAP technical experience is mandatory for external and desirable for internal job postings.
- Expert experience with Supply Planning, SAP Sales & Distribution (SD)/ MM technical-functional skills, OMP Planning Tool support, and long-range/ finite scheduling
- Intermediate experiences with SAP Integrations, S4 Hana, SAP ECC, and EDI, ABAP
Preferred Qualifications
- 9+ years of related experience in SAP and 5+ Years in APO with experience in Demand/Supply Planning
- Technical expertise in driving business problems
- FMCG/CPG experience preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and apply new technologies.
- Track record as a strong team player with effective teamwork and communication skills.
- Good interpersonal skills – can deal and communicate effectively in English (both in writing and verbally) with systems colleagues and business users.
- An analytical, methodical, logical approach to problem solving, employing innovative approaches to business and technical challenges.
- Structured and self-disciplined approach to working – can work on own initiative.
- Able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
- Time management skills and the ability to prioritize multiple conflicting activities.
- Sound business judgment.
- Willingness to continue learning to expand and build on skill sets.
Company Overview
We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.
