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About this position

The Network & Inventory Planning Manager role is responsible for balancing demand & supply of the respective planning assortment. He/she creates a feasible supply plan, which ensures product availability while keeping inventory and cost low. He/She is source oriented, meaning his/her assortment is defined by a resource cluster (fill/pack and semi-finished-goods lines). The focus lays on the operational & tactical horizon (week 3 – months 24).

Responsibilities

• Demand Requirements Planning and Deployment
• Alert & Conflict Management
• Inventory & Safety Stock Planning and actions to adjust.
• Master Production Scheduling (Volume Planning & Campaign Planning) and handover to Detailed Schedule
• Capacity Planning for all resources of own assortment including 3PM Overspill and/or PC backup for own assortment.
• Master Data maintenance of selected planning master data
• Facilitates a proper phase-in / out planning process and triggers leftover management process.
• Drives continuous improvement of efficiency and effectiveness of the planning process
• Represents Planning in the BAP and SPEED meetings.

Requirements

• University degree (Minimum M.Sc. or Similar) in Economics/Mathematics/Engineering or equal
• 3-5 years of relevant work experience in supply planning (having production planning knowledge would is a plus)
• Proven strengths in teamplay within a diverse setting of cultures
• Result-oriented combined with assertiveness & Persuasiveness
• Strong skills in relationship building, communication and moderation.
• Proven analytical and end to end thinking including commercial thinking
• Advance Microsoft Excel is preferable
• Fluent in English for communication skills spoken and written
• Decisive and result/performance driven.
• Proactive and collaborative
• Is able to work with higher management
• Service mind orientation
• High cultural adaptability

Benefits