Network Supply Planner

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness, humility, and a spirit of adventure, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn from our 79 production sites worldwide, known for their best-in-class processes and procedures. Your energy, personality, and determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

As a Network Supply Planner, you will report to the Network Supply Planning Manager. You will develop an integrated supply network for respective technologies and sites. Establish methodology to manage production capacity based on forecasted demand. Optimize efficiency and minimize cost. Lead SLOB processes and corrective actions. Develop metrics and solutions for improving inventory health (age, value, turns). Minimize impact on reserve. Leverage Site Supply Reviews to develop recommendations for solving complex supply issues and enhance capacity utilization. Mitigate service risks. Align best practices and training within the region. Manage raw material long-term requirements, contracting, and allocation process. Support transfers between sites.

Core Responsibilities:

• Work in close collaboration with GBS, customer care, demand planning, raw material planning, and planning streams/systems to ensure service level to customers.
• Optimize supply network; balance capacity and inventory across the supply network.
• Propose and drive processes/ways of working for more efficiency and reduced cost.
• Project management.
• Review slow-moving and obsolete inventory. Manage reserve projections.
• Drive inventory policies and planning parameters.
• Develop and improve reports and tools.
• Monitor critical supply constraints & escalate supply issues.
• Product life cycle management; review changes to existing business, new/lost business, and review formulation changes to mitigate risk.
• Contribute to transfers within the region and across regions.
• Follow Givaudan procedures, guidelines, and best practices on relevant areas including safety; address and implement where missing.
• Accountable for Site, technology, or Regional Supply Reviews.
• Connect with other regions (operations, planning, supply…).

Your professional profile includes:

• Strong working knowledge in planning, preferably with experience in demand, supply, and production.
• Escalations, allocation programs, capacity balancing.
• Working knowledge BI, BO.
• Thorough understanding and experience with SAP.
• Language Skills: English and other language(s) as required.
• Project management.
• Bachelor's Degree or related experience in Supply Chain Management.
• Minimum 2 years in the industry (flavor, ingredient, or fragrance industry).
• Strong knowledge of Inventory Management, Capacity Analysis, Planning processes, and supply chain best practices (i.e. APICS, continuous improvement certifications…).

Our benefits include:

• Health insurance coverage.
• Career Development Opportunities with access to many virtual learning sessions.
• Gympass discount in SportClub.
• Discounts with partners.

At Givaudan, you work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions, and divisions. Every essence of you enriches our world.

Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers, and partners. Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.

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