Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) Planner (F/M/X)

Solvay Asia Pacific (Map Ta Phut, Rayong, Thailand)

Rayong, Thailand

Solvay is a science company whose technologies bring benefits to many aspects of daily life. Our purpose—we bond people, ideas and elements to reinvent progress—is a call to go beyond, to reinvent future forms of progress and create sustainable shared value for all through the power of science. In a world facing an ever-growing population and quest for resources, we aim to be the driving force triggering the next breakthroughs to enable humanity to advance while protecting the planet we all share. We bond with customers and partners to address today and tomorrow’s megatrends. As a global leader in Materials, Chemicals and Solutions, Solvay brings advancements in planes, cars, batteries, smart and medical devices, water and air treatment, to solve critical industrial, social and environmental challenges. You can count on our innovative solutions to contribute to safer, cleaner and more sustainable future.

Detail posisi

The Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) Planner is responsible for executing the S&OP process in the APAC region for the Business Unit Peroxide, focusing on balancing supply and demand to ensure supply continuity and optimized sourcing, distribution, and inventories.

Kewajiban

• Demand Review: ensure that sales forecasts are captured from the Sales Team and are challenged. Organize and animate a monthly Demand Review meeting in order to achieve demand consensus. Review forecast accuracy and identify root causes of deviation, review large shifts in demand, identify demand related issues and risks.
• S&OP: establish a 12 months rolling planning for all APAC sites over all LoB’s.
• Ensure effective sourcing and distribution plan, optimize production asset utilization and total cost to serve.
• Manage finished goods inventory in order to keep under control the overall working capital.
• Define & run sourcing scenarios for volume allocation and supply organization. Optimizes total cost to serve and contribution margin.
• Propose solutions to anticipate and solve relevant planning issues affecting business activities.
• Ensure arbitration between countries, sales or customers when problems could not be solved at local level.
• Cascade decisions and Supply planning to all stakeholders (sales, industrial, finance, supply chain & third parties like hauliers).
• Monitor the operational execution of the planning (S&OE) and take operational decisions when adjustments are required.
• In charge of continuous improvement and automation initiatives.
• Consistent sharing of knowledge and expertise’s amongst team members.
• Acquire insight into the supply chain strategies, policies, processes, systems and tools as defined/introduced by the Global Supply Chain Management Team.

Kualifikasi

• University/Bachelor degree or equivalent by experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in Supply Chain domain and successful experience in a production or Supply Chain planning position.
• Competencies:
• IT knowledge (Google Workspace), SAP knowledge, familiarity with an APS tool is a strong asset.
• Analytical and Strategic thinking.
• Fluent in English.
• Behaviors:
• Business Driven.
• Stress resistant.
• Autonomous.