India Foods Business is a full-service manufacturing and marketing unit comprising over 500 employees spread across over multiple locations across India. Our strong suite of products includes the Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Haagen-Dazs and Nature Valley brands in both direct-to-consumer and B2B channels across Retail, Food Service and Bakeries & Exports. We combine the capabilities of a global enterprise with the entrepreneurial spirit and cultural awareness you would expect of a smaller local company.
Position Title
Sr. Analyst – SC Adv Analytics, OU
Function/Group
Logistics
Location
Mumbai
Shift Timing
1:30 PM to 10:30 PM
Role Reports to
Assistant Manager
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
15% - Requirement Gathering & Data Collection:
Understand Project charter- Business context, Scope, Outcome & success criteria.
Collaborate with the Global & India Supply Chain partners to gather the required information and conduct the data validations & analysis.
Proactively analyze the current set of the data based on facts and root cause analysis.
Perform data massaging – Outlier detection and handle missing data etc. and share key findings with the team lead.
40% Model building & Scenario Evaluation
Solve business problems in the areas of Supply Chain by developing different modeling approaches/techniques using Descriptive/Prescriptive/Predictive analytics and recommend the best approach.
Develop a detailed solution design/architecture or re-engineer an existing solution design.
Build/Refresh the models periodically and provide recommendations to business teams.
Run & analyze what-if scenarios by leveraging advanced tools and provide insights to the business team.
20% Model result analysis & presentation
Detailed and quantitative analysis of the model output and clearly articulate findings and recommendations
Synthesize large data sets/model results into usable insights and business recommendations
Build presentation and communicate the results effectively with the broad audience of clients/stakeholders/cross-functional teams.
Provides analytics support during the implementation and transition phase.
15% Other Responsibilities:
Improving Participate in brainstorming sessions on new capabilities development/ideation sessions
Work on enhancements in current capabilities/process improvements
Support new technologies by participating in testing sessions & training sessions
Sustaining:
Develop and design governance framework
Ensure strong and clear process/training/project documentation and controls are in force
Creating assumption documents for client meetings/methodology documents
Participating in weekly directional meetings, team meetings & townhalls
10% Self-Development:
Upskilling through internal & external training/courses, in behavioral, functional, analytical & technology areas
Participating in innovation challenges, Hackathon competitions, Knowledge sharing sessions
Participating in training sessions at the team/departmental level
Participating in internal case studies to acquire business acumen
Specific Job Experience or Skills Needed
o Technical know- how of optimization – Linear/Integer/MILP programming
o Technical know- how of Statistics – Distributions/ Hypothesis Testing/ Measures of Central tendency/ Regression/ Risk Analysis
o Technical know- how of prediction – Machine learning, various types of regression, classification and clustering techniques, time series, tree- based prediction models
Competencies/Behaviors required for job
Minimum Qualifications
Minimum Degree Requirements: Bachelors
Preferred Degree Requirements: Masters (M. Tech/MBA/MSC)
Preferred Major Area of Study: Supply Chain / Operations Research / Industrial Engineering / Statistics / Mathematics / Mechanical Engineering / Computer Engineering / Electronics Engineering / Instrumentation Engineering/ Production Engineering
Required Professional Certifications:
Preferred Professional Certifications: APICS, CSCP, CPIM Analytics, Six Sigma, SC Macro Masters or similar accreditation
Preferred Institutes : IITs/NITs/ Tier 1 or 2 MBA Colleges/reputed University
Preferred Qualifications
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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