Supply Planner

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Europe.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the Business Unit supply planning cycle, encompassing rough-cut capacity planning, alignment of master scheduling, balancing supply and demand, reviewing constraints, evaluating risks and opportunities, developing scenarios, and facilitating Supply Review.

• Develop Business Unit supply plans and propose strategies for re-allocation and mitigation that address service, cost, inventory, EBIT, and working capital impacts.

• Oversee dependent-demand propagation throughout the supply chain network and collaborate with other Business Unit Supply Planners.

• Serve as the primary planning liaison with site planners for Rough-Cut Capacity Planning and escalate any unresolved constraints.

• Ensure alignment of production and procurement plans with the consensus demand plan; identify and escalate structural deviations.

• Promote exception-based planning that focuses on service risk, capacity risk, breaches in the frozen zone, and inventory risk.

• Encourage the adoption of the AFEMEA Planning Playbook and mentor site planning teams on planning standards and capability enhancement.

• Foster alignment and consensus across sites without direct authority and incorporate site-level learnings into future planning standards.

• Maintain the accuracy and completeness of planning master data, define central data needs, and collaborate with sites, BI, data, and IT teams to address gaps.

• Establish and sustain supply-planning visibility across diverse systems utilizing capacity, load, and inventory perspectives.

• Guarantee that KPIs and reviews are based on reliable data; document standard procedures, support training and onboarding, and implement continuous improvement techniques.

• Participate in planning system implementation and enhancement, including SAP IBP and subsequent tools.

• Recognize business continuity risks and suggest alternative site options.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Logistics, or a related discipline.

• 5–8+ years of experience in supply chain management, preferably within an international B2B or FMCG matrix environment.

• Prior experience in a supply planning position within a large organization.

• Direct experience working with manufacturing sites is highly preferred.

• Proven ability to partner and present to individuals at the Director and VP levels.

• Capacity to foresee demand and capacity risks and present scenarios with transparent trade-offs.

• Skill in protecting the frozen horizon and managing exceptions within established guidelines.

• Experience in managing safety stock, minimum order quantities, lot-size logic, days inventory outstanding, and obsolescence.

• Exceptional analytical skills and structured root-cause analysis capabilities across diverse data environments.

• Strong communication, facilitation, presentation, influencing, and coaching abilities.

• Advanced proficiency in Excel and a solid working knowledge of BI and analytical tools, such as Power BI.

• Familiarity with SAP IBP or similar supply chain planning software is preferred.

• Fluent in English; proficiency in an additional European language is a significant advantage.

• Comfortable operating across cultures in an international, multi-site organization.

• Adaptable, dynamic, structured under pressure, and capable of thriving in a fast-paced environment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.

• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.

• Flexible working arrangements and a supportive work environment.