Supply Planning Senior Planner (German Speaker)

Overview

Superuser to support Prolink adoption and process enhancement. Responsible to ensure capability for delivery of the end to end finished goods supply plan for defined manufacturing facilities to deliver target service, including translating the rough cut capacity plan, as an as input from the network modeler, into a daily supply plan within the 0-16wks weeks horizon: Manages inventory and waste risks and creates the distribution plan. Additionally, supports operational planning and exceptional course correction.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for production plans creation

• Ensure delivery of an optimized cross-site manufacturing supply plan, that can be scheduled, to maintain the target stock holding of all SKU’s to deliver service to BU’s

• Responsible to create constrained capacity production plans within the planning horizon

• Responsible for the review of detailed line scheduling plans

• Responsible for inventory and business waste projections with the market.

• Responsible to prepare an execute Supply Review for Platform/Hub as part of the monthly iS&OP cycle

• Monitor key service metrics and worst performers with Integrated Planning Lead and directors. Analyse root-causes for worst performers and support on the definition of action plans

• Integration point between Market and GCC

• Enables product supply for the commercial change agenda:

  • Support NPD launches & phase in/phase out changes by ensuring supply planning systems are set up in advance
  • Effectively communicate changes to the scheduling teams, & the supply plan through the appropriate channels.

• Responsible for driving continuous improvements process

  • Articulate supply planning system issues to the system SME’s in order to find effective solutions
  • Identify process gaps through monitoring of process metrics
  • Own training for planning population
  • Share best practice
  • Own development of planning tool

Qualifications

• Experience – 3 to 5 years in associated function

• GERMAN speaker is a MUST

Qualifications:

• University degree preferably engineering or logistics

• Very experienced in Supply Planning (incl. inventory mgmt.)

• Proficiency in product category planning - FMCG background preferred

Abilities:

• Very experienced in Supply Planning (incl. inventory mgmt.)

• Experience of planning in supply planning tools – eg Manugistics / Prolink

• Strong Analytical skills

• Masters planning methodologies, optimization etc

• Very good collaboration skills and ability to interact with multi-cultural teams spread across geographies

• Experience in ERP (SAP) usage is a must

• Excellent numeric abilities; Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office: Outlook, Excel