General Mills

India is among the top ten priority markets for General Mills, and hosts our Global Shared Services Centre. This is the Global Shared Services arm of General Mills Inc., which supports its operations worldwide. With over 1,300 employees in Mumbai, the center has capabilities in the areas of Supply Chain, Finance, HR, Digital and Technology, Sales Capabilities, Consumer Insights, ITQ (R&D & Quality), and Enterprise Business Services. Learning and capacity-building is a key ingredient of our success.

Position Title

Sr Analyst – SC Advanced Analytics, Plan

Function/Group

Supply Chain

Location

Mumbai

Shift Timing

1.30 pm to 10.30 pm

Role Reports to

Assistant Manager – SC Advanced Analytics, Plan

Remote/Hybrid/in-Office

Hybrid

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.com

General 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.in

We advocate for advancing equity and inclusion to create more equitable workplaces and a better tomorrow.

Job Overview

Function Overview

The GIC Supply Chain team manages end-to-end operations, encompassing planning, sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, and analytics. They strategically plan to meet market demands, optimize sourcing, ensure efficient production, and oversee the seamless movement of goods from production to delivery. The team employs advanced analytics throughout these processes, fostering adaptability and operational excellence. This collaborative approach ensures a well-coordinated supply chain that aligns with both organizational goals and dynamic market conditions. Link

Purpose of the role

The role involves building, maintaining, and executing optimization and simulation models to help identify, analyze, and implement opportunities in the areas of manufacturing network design and optimization, supply network planning and realignment by incorporating supply chain costs, manufacturing complexity and capacity. The Sr Analyst supports the Supply Planning teams in identifying opportunities for manufacturing network and provides least cost sourcing options. Works on strategic projects and new capability development and enhancement initiatives.

Key Accountabilities

Developing Analytical Models (60% of Time)

• Develop different modeling approaches/techniques to solve the business problem at hand and recommends the best approach
• Work with the US & India Supply Chain partners to gather the required information and conducting the data validations & analysis.
• Understand Project charter- Business context, Scope, Outcome & success criteria.
• Build & refresh the capacity planning models periodically and provide recommendations to business teams in the areas of cost base capacity optimization, network change and service risk analysis.
• Provides analytics support during implementation and transition phase.

Scenarios (15% of Time)

• Run & analyze what-if scenarios by leveraging advance optimization & simulation tools and provide insights to business team.
• Proactively analyze current set of the supply chain based upon facts and root cause analysis.

Other Responsibilities (15% of Time)

• Ensure strong and clear process documentation and controls are in force
• Prepare analysis reports, presentation, methodology documents & assumption documents for client meetings.
• Communicate effectively with broad audience i.e., client/stakeholders/cross functional teams.

Development Opportunities (10% of Time)

• Interact with cross-functional teams/stakeholders regularly to share opportunity areas and help reduce losses.

Minimum Qualifications

• Full Time graduation from an accredited university (Mandatory)
• 2 to 3 years of related experience
• Advanced Excel, VBA, SQL, Basic optimization, Linear Programming

Deliver outstanding results.

• Completes tasks, activities, and projects in a timely and effective manner.
• Communicates progress about projects with others to ensure overall alignment.
• Provides ideas and input to help team achieve greater result.
• May lead a defined portion of a project.
• Assumes personal initiative and accountability for results, performance, and behaviors.

Interpersonal Effectiveness

• Relates well with stakeholders, colleagues & team members.
• Maintains a positive, supportive & appreciative attitude.
• Actively listens to others & demonstrates an understanding of their point of view.
• Clearly articulates views in written & verbal discussions.

Problem Solving / Analytical skills.

• Ability to collect and analyze data quickly and efficiently.
• Can identify issues and provide ideas/solutions for resolution.

Leads Innovation

• Ability and confidence to identify and recommend creative solutions.
• Identifies both opportunities and needs for change.
• Adapts quickly and responds effectively to change.
• Identifies issues or problems and provides a respective solution.
• Explores and shares innovative best practices with others.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree
• 4+ years of experience in core Supply Chain
• Major Area of Study in Supply Chain / Production Planning Tools & Concepts
• Professional Certifications: CSCP, CPIM
• R/Python based optimization, Statistical modelling, Stochastic
• SQL/GCP

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