NOAM Planning Manager
About The Position
The NOAM Planning Manager leads the production planning team in creating, developing, and maintaining an efficient and effective production plan aligned with regional planning and company targets for safety, service, cost, and quality. The role develops near- and long-term capacity plans and works to minimize write-offs while optimizing site service and cost efficiency. It aligns with other Planning Managers on best practices, ways of working, and network supply planning, and develops the planning team strategy, including people development, performance evaluation, and personal targets. The position collaborates across production, scheduling, quality, customer care, supply planning, raw material planning, network supply planning, other planning streams and systems, and GBS. It contributes to site and regional targets, leads efficiency and write-off-reduction initiatives, supports product life cycle management, and helps ensure stable, best-practice execution of planning.
Requirements
- Minimum bachelor's degree or related experience in Supply Chain Management.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in a supply chain role.
- Minimum 3 years of leadership experience.
- Strong knowledge of production planning, inventory management, capacity analysis, and supply chain best practices.
- Strong working knowledge of planning; preferably experience with demand, supply, and production planning.
- Strong negotiation and problem-solving skills, with agility and flexibility in resolving issues.
- Project management skills.
- Continuous improvement mindset.
- Strong team development and coaching skills.
- Working knowledge of BI, BO, MS Office, Google, and SAP.
- Ability to achieve results through formal and informal channels.
Nice To Haves
- APICS knowledge or qualification.
- Experience in the flavor, ingredient, fragrance, chemical, or FMCG industries.
- Six Sigma or Lean Yellow or Green Belt.
Responsibilities
- Create and maintain a production plan and schedule that is 100% executable, meets productivity targets, and supports the production budget.
- Maintain inventory levels and write-off levels in line with company targets and budgets.
- Meet established customer service targets.
- Plan and manage capacity.
- Develop a high-performing planning team through performance evaluation, people development, leadership succession, and development of functional experts and future leaders.
- Monitor critical supply constraints and escalate supply issues.
- Serve as the single point of contact for one production site.
- Support product life cycle management.
- Participate actively in Site Supply Review.
- Collaborate with production, scheduling, quality, customer care, supply planning, raw material planning, network supply planning, other planning streams and systems, and GBS to support customer service, efficient operations, and optimal inventory.
- Contribute to performance review meetings to monitor progress.
- Contribute to site and regional targets in alignment with Site Directors and the Regional Planning Manager.
- Lead initiatives to improve production efficiency and reduce costs through efficient planning, batch-size optimization, and cycle-time optimization.
- Lead and execute regional and site initiatives to reduce write-offs.
- Review slow-moving and obsolete inventory and manage reserve projections.
- Follow Givaudan procedures, guidelines, and best practices in relevant areas, including safety, and address and implement procedures where they are missing.
- Support development of training programs, manuals, and implementation methods to ensure stable, best-practice planning execution.
- Execute project management.
- Review and audit material lead times.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
