Regional Supply Planner

BASF SE • Parma, ID

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a Regional Supply Planner to join our Agricultural Solutions team for our BASF | Nunhems vegetable seeds business in Parma, ID. BASF’s Agricultural Solutions division connects innovation, customers, partners and agricultural experts and integrates sustainability criteria into all business decisions. We help farmers deliver the best possible outcomes, working to achieve the balance between economic, environmental and social value creation for sustainable and efficient agriculture. The Regional Supply Planner initiates and tracks all standard, quality, and final processing activities to meet regional availability targets and ensure timely delivery to customers and warehouses, while ensuring seeds are packed and available for sale, managing replenishment to distribution centers, creating manufacturing orders, and responding to unforecasted demand to maintain supply continuity.

Requirements

• High school diploma required.
• Have 1–3 years of experience in Logistics or Supply Chain.
• Are experienced with ERP systems. SAP preferred.
• Possess basic understanding of the financial aspects of inventory management.
• Can coordinate administrative workload and make assertive decisions when needed.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders in the local language and in English (verbal and written).
• Demonstrate competencies such as driving results, collaborating, building trust, valuing differences, customer focus, courage, and managing ambiguity.
• Maintain high productivity in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and work cooperatively and flexibly within a team and open office setting.
• Are able to travel up to 10% per year, domestically and internationally.
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Nice To Haves

• Hold a bachelor’s degree in Business, Agronomy, or a related field, preferred.
• Have crop-related knowledge and familiarity with export requirements for agricultural products preferred.
• Know seed production, inventory management, and operational techniques preferred.

Responsibilities

• Driving availability to ensure sufficient regional coverage and packed inventory.
• Initiating and following up on standard and quality processing through COD.
• Creating manufacturing orders (MO) and allocating lots for final processing based on FIFO for unforecasted orders.
• Initiating final processing orders after COD.
• Coordinating with schedulers to resolve processing or QA capacity constraints.
• Initiating and managing outsourcing of treatments when capacity or capability limits are reached.
• Assuring timely information flow and communication with key stakeholders.
• Supporting GSP in operational S&OP activities and aligning with M&S Services on inventory levels and planned availability dates.
• Maintaining final fit dates and managing date-of-closure for packed inventory per agreed terms.
• Running and following up on regular reports (DOC, FFD, QA, etc.).
• Ensuring correct documentation for ISTA, NAL, import permits, and other regulatory needs.
• Reviewing customer seed returns in collaboration with QA and executing inventory corrections from cycle counts.
• Managing administration for seed purchasing of third-party owned varieties.
• Communicating replenishment availability with GSP and executing replenishment activities with distribution centers and customer service.
• Administering replenishment orders and internal orders (screening, trialing, breeding material, registration), including entry and management of all internal orders.

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements whenever possible
• Highly competitive retirement savings plan with company match and investment options
• Well-being programs that include comprehensive mental health support for you and your household family members
• Family forming benefits (fertility, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, maternity/parental leave, and more)
• Back-up child and elder care with discount programs for families of all ages and stages
• Mentoring and career development opportunities that allow you to share, learn, and thrive
• Matching gifts program that allows you to deepen the impact of your contributions to qualified charities.
• Employee crisis support for when the unexpected happens
• Access to our BASF wine cellar, employee discounts, and much more!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree