Planning Coordinator

Yara International; Cartagena de Indias; Presencial; COP 90.000.000 - 150.000.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Yara International in Cartagena, Colombia, seeks a Planning Lead to ensure integrated material and production planning, linking commercial demand with supply chain operations to guarantee timely and sustainable output.

Based at the Cartagena plant, you will lead MRP processes, coordinate with Global Planning, Commercial and Production, and drive S&OP coordination, KPIs, and reporting to support balanced supply and demand.

Formación

• Requires a bachelor degree in industrial or production engineering or related field and relevant post-graduate courses.
• Experience leading material replenishment planning (MRP) and coordinating with commercial and production teams.
• Strong understanding of S&OP processes and KPIs.
• Ability to align demand with supply and manage cross-functional stakeholders.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the MRP process for multiple countries, ensuring accurate material feeding and inventory control.
• Act as focal point with Global Planning and Optimization teams.
• Coordinate between Commercial and Production areas to balance demand and supply.
• Ensure plan allocation of materials, production, and storage capacity to meet market demand.
• Develop and execute SLA between Commercial and Supply Chain for planning processes.
• Support reporting, KPIs, simulations, and trend analyses.

Conocimientos

MRP

Supply chain planning

S&OP coordination

Stakeholder management

Educación

Bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering

Descripción del empleo

We at Yara are part of a global network, collaborating to profitably and responsibly solve some of the world's key challenges - resource scarcity, food insecurity and environmental change.

About The Unit

Yara has the mission to responsibly feed the world and protect the planet, with the vision of a collaborative society, a world without hunger, and a planet respected. Yara does it by driving the transformation of food systems providing sustainable solutions to the food value chain through sustainable agriculture, crop nutrition, and clean-energy solutions. Our existing crop nutrition products and solutions help produce the food required for the growing world population. Going forward, Yara is taking a lead in the development towards sustainable agriculture, through physical products, services and digital tools, to contribute to solving the challenges which the agricultural industry is facing globally. We operate globally and have around 16000 employees.

We are currently seeking a Planning Lead, responsible for ensuring integrated and synchronized planning of materials and production capacity, effectively linking commercial demand with supply chain operations to guarantee timely, efficient, and sustainable business supply. This position will be based at the Cartagena plant, Colombia, and will report to the Supply Manager – Andean Region.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Material Replenishment Planning (MRP) process in each country under his/her charge.
• Focal point with Global Planning and Optimization team.
• Focal point between Commercial and Production areas.
• Ensure the right feeding of YPOD RP (and DP if apply) and guarantee the consistency of information between RP and MRP.
• Ensure the supply plan of packing material in accordance with MRP.
• Responsible for linking the end to end process from demand planning (S&OP) to supply chain operations.
• Responsible for the role of S&OP Coordinator. Coordinate the supply restriction and executive meetings and provide the right and reliable information.
• Ensure development and execution of SLA between Commercial, Supply Chain regarding to planning processes.
• Manage the MRP execution, custody inventory day levels and continuously support balance supply and demand.
• Support planning supply chain reporting, KPIs, simulations and respective trend analysis.
• Coordinate planning committees with commercial area to drive sourcing requirement alignment.
• Ensure plan allocation of materials, production and storage capacity to meet market demand.
• Liaise with sourcing department, procurement and site operations to ensure all materials and resources are in balance with demand forecasts.
• Communicate delivery / shipment plans to the relevant stakeholders.
• Support data management for generation of supply chain reports.
• Ensure compliance of Planning Rules.

Profile

Bachelor degree in industrial or production engineering, international business, finance or another relevant field with other post-graduation course.

Additional Information

As a global organization we actively strive to reflect diversity in society. Therefore, we motivate all qualified candidates from all backgrounds to submit their application. We are committed to creating a work environment that adapts to gender equality and allows us to combine professional development with the needs of a family or other personal circumstances.

Yara is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe that creating a diverse and inclusive work environment is not only the right thing, but also the smart thing to do. To deliver on this, Yara has firmly anchored Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) in our business strategy and has more than 400 employees worldwide involved in D&I ambassadors networks.

As part of our recruitment process, where permitted by local law, we may conduct reference and background checks. These checks will only be performed when deemed necessary for the nature of the job. Candidates will be informed by HR before any background checks are initiated.