Givaudan Careers Raw Material Planner

Givaudan•Cincinnati, OH

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with our customers, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 17,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. In the USA, we develop, market and produce a wide array of solutions from our 25 most innovative sites, based across the country. Stretch your skills, create and get inspiration from passionate colleagues. Every day, your energy, your thirst for knowledge, and your creativity will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature. You will accomplish material planning activities for raw materials to ensure the finished product can be manufactured without interruption and supplied on time to our customers. Ensure material availability for production. Minimize write-offs and optimize inventory levels. Work together with other departments to improve settings and processes.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Operations Management, Business Administration or equivalent
2+ years of experience in supply planning, supply chain, production planning, and knowledge of Planning, Inventory Management, and Supply Chain best practices.
APICS.
Experience in the flavor, ingredient, or fragrance industry.

Nice To Haves

6 sigma / lean Yellow or Green Belt preferred.

Responsibilities

Plan/Schedule that is 100% executable and follows productivity targets to meet the production plan
Inventory levels meet company targets
Supply Chain Write-off levels meet budget
Service to customers meet all set targets
Review procurement requirements in MRP (Material Requirements Planning) to ensure on-time customer response times, raw material availability, and minimal waste.
Release purchase requisitions for raw materials following MOQ (minimum order quantities) and lead time to promote on-time completion of manufacturing requirements. This includes meeting the SLAs established with GBS.
Analyze slow-moving and obsolete inventory.
Develop an understanding of the replenishment processes.
Planning, Quality, Receiving, Logistics, GBS Operational Buying, GBS Replenishment Planning, GBS Spot Buying, and GBS Supply Planning.
Resolve or escalate supply issues, working with company partners.
Share best practices and ideas with the team; involve teams to achieve the most efficient ways of working.
Support cost reduction projects and improvement projects.
Follow Givaudan procedures, guidelines, and best practices in relevant areas, including Safety; address and implement where missing.
Support development of training programs, manuals and methods of implementation to assure stable and best-practice execution of planning