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, Network & Transform

Function/Group

Logistics

Location

Mumbai

Shift Timing

1:30 PM to 10:30 PM

Role Reports to

Assistant Manager – SC Advanced Analytics, Network & Transform

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

Supply chain analytics group is responsible for delivering the solutions and developing the capabilities which enables better decision-making in supply chain. This team works closely with all supply chain functions (i.e., plan, source, make, deliver and customer service teams), business units and other cross functional partners for developing solutions to drive business value. This team also drives step-change innovation and improvements in business practices by delivering actionable insights through advanced analytics and supply chain expertise.

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, inventory optimization and capacity. The Sr Analyst supports the Supply Planning teams in identifying opportunities for manufacturing & distribution network and provides least cost sourcing and distribution options. Works on strategic projects and new capability development and enhancement initiatives.

Key accountabilities

Requirement Gathering & Data Collection (20% of Time)

• Understand Project charter- Business context, Scope, Outcome & success criteria.
• Understand decisions to be taken through the model – Sourcing, Inventory targets, Capacity optimization, Network change, service risk analysis, Plant/DC Open/Close, Greenfield location, Customer realignment or supply chain design.
• Understand data availability & build customized data template to collect data.
• Performed data cleaning- Outlier, Missing data etc, & provide summary of collected data to the client.

Model Building & Scenario Evaluation (30% of Time)

• Develop different modeling approaches/techniques to solve the business problem at hand and recommends the best approach.
• Formulate the mathematical model & use appropriate tool to build the model – Supply chain Guru, Excel solver etc.
• Build the baseline and validate it with business /stakeholder.
• Analyze large set of business data, derive useful insights & communicate the same to project manager and/or client.
• Build /Evaluate multiple scenarios through the model.
• Carry output validation & generate insight

Model result analysis & presentation (30% of Time)

• Carry out the result analysis and provide business insights to project manager/stakeholders.
• Build presentation, methodology documents & assumption documents.
• Communicate effectively with broad audience i.e., client/stakeholders/cross functional teams.
• Use advanced optimization & simulation tools to build the models & run different sensitivity (what-if) scenarios

Other Responsibilities (20% of Time)

• Take small routine decisions and seek supervision when needed.
• Interact with cross functional teams/stakeholders on regular basis to share opportunity areas and help them to reduce the losses.
• Drive innovation in providing solutions to business problems.

Minimum Qualifications

• Full Time graduation from an accredited university (Mandatory)
• 2 years of related experience
• Demonstrated Model building skills in software’s like LLamasoft Supply Chain Guru, MS Excel, Inventory Analyst, Premium Solver, Simulation tools, R.
• Demonstrated skills in production planning, network distribution planning & inventory target calculation.
• Can work independently and take decisions without seeking help from Supervisor.
• Strong analytic ability to translate data into actionable information.
• Experience in dealing with large data sets and tools like MS Excel, MS Power point, MS Access, Visio
• Ability to think “out of the box” & strong analytical skills.

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.

Communication

• Ability to negotiate solutions between parties and effectively communicate with various levels and functions throughout the organization.
• Clearly articulate views in written and verbal discussions.
• Excellent English skills.

Problem Solving / Analytical skills.

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree
• 3 years of related experience
• Major Area of Study in Industrial Engineering or Supply Chain
• Professional Certifications: CSCMP, APICS

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.

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