Givaudan Careers NOAM Planning Manager

Givaudan • Cincinnati, OH

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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 the regional planning organization 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 also aligns with other Planning Managers on best practices, ways of working, and network supply planning.

The manager develops the planning team's strategy and executes people development, performance evaluation, and personal targets. The role serves as the single point of contact for one production site and collaborates across 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.

Requirements

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree or related experience in Supply Chain Management.
• At least 5 years of experience in a supply chain role.
• At least 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 including demand, supply, and production planning.
• Strong negotiation and problem-solving skills, with agility and flexibility when resolving issues.
• Project management skills.
• Continuous improvement mindset.
• Strong team development and coaching skills.
• Working knowledge of BI, BO, MS Office, Google tools, 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 industry.
• Six Sigma or Lean Yellow Belt or Green Belt.

Responsibilities

• Lead the production planning team in creating, developing, and maintaining an efficient and effective production plan aligned with regional planning and company targets.
• Develop near- and long-term capacity plans and manage site capacity.
• Ensure production plans and schedules are fully executable and meet productivity targets and production budgets.
• Manage inventory levels, write-offs, and customer service performance in line with company targets and budgets.
• Develop the planning team into a high-performing work 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.
• Actively participate 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 and batch-size 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, including safety requirements, and address and implement missing practices.
• 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.

Benefits

• Inspiring teamwork culture with opportunities to collaborate and learn from colleagues across disciplines, regions, and divisions.
• Inclusive environment where individual voices are valued.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager