As a Senior Supply Planner, you will ensure supply availability and upstream supply chain resilience while optimizing inventory and planning parameters to support business requirements.
- Develop and execute the annual upstream supply planning strategy in collaboration with Procurement Category Managers, plant teams, and other key stakeholders.
- Drive inventory optimization through continuous improvement initiatives, including flow optimization, planning parameter reviews, and inventory management.
- Partner with plants and regional stakeholders to assess supplier capacity and supply risks, ensuring readiness to support business growth and changing demand.
- Identify potential supply constraints and disruption risks and drive preventive and corrective actions with Procurement, suppliers, and plant teams.
- Improve demand and supply alignment, balancing material availability, inventory levels, supplier capacity, and business requirements.
- Identify opportunities to improve PO2 performance and upstream supply continuity.
- Ensure planning activities and processes are executed in accordance with the Global Planning Playbook and established supply chain standards.
- Define end-to-end business requirements to simplify and automate supply planning processes, reducing manual intervention where possible.
- Work with digital and development teams to enhance planning dashboards, visibility, analytics, and automated actions, including the application of AI and other digital solutions.
- Analyze planning and supply chain performance, identify improvement opportunities, and drive actions with cross-functional stakeholders.
What qualifications will make you successful?
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Statistics, Operations Management, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of experience in supply planning, materials planning, or upstream supply chain planning, preferably within a manufacturing environment.
- Strong understanding of supply planning, inventory management, capacity planning, supplier management, and planning parameters.
- Ability to analyze supply and inventory data and translate insights into practical planning actions.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively across Procurement, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and regional teams.
- Strong English communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Digital mindset with the ability to translate business requirements into digital planning solutions and process improvements.
- Comfortable challenging existing processes while remaining collaborative, logical, and solution-oriented.
- Experience with planning dashboards, analytics, automation, or AI-enabled supply chain solutions is an advantage.