Mission and Key Priorities of the Role
You will join the Supply Chain team to support all stages of planning, from order management to final customer delivery, passing through production planning. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring right service to our customers and production facility efficiency; coordinating key activities and processes which involve and connect different functions, such as mill planning, customer service, sales and marketing. You will support planning improvement projects, partnering with sales‐marketing‐customer service‐logistics teams across Europe, gradually taking direct lead of specific projects.
- Manage customer orders by confirming delivery times.
- Generate balanced production plans to meet service, production efficiency and finished product stock cover targets, while complying with defined planning rules and standards.
- Coordinate and manage key stakeholders, such as sales, marketing, R&D;, to address urgencies, support new product launches, update production plans to mitigate/fix short‐term product availability issues, etc.
- Manage key relations with mill production scheduling departments, granting efficiency and reactiveness.
- Support S&OP; lead and Planning process & tool Managers in executing planning improvement projects, such as reviewing European subsidiaries stock policies, upgrading MRP functionalities, managing slow movers/redundant stock, adopting new planning strategies, etc., coordinating activities with sales, marketing, logistics and customer service.
- Apply continuous improvement approaches and mindsets, aimed at identifying wastes and inefficiencies and fixing them at root.
Qualifications
- Passionate and interested in working in Supply Chain, with an analytical mindset and precise approach to process planning data and information.
- Previous roles in Planning/Logistics, ideally with experience using structured planning platforms/systems.
- Strong understanding of production planning, inventory management, MRP