Production Planner Naturals Eame M/w/d

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Production Planner Naturals EAME M/W/D
- Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness and humility, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Dive into varied, flexible, and stimulating environments. Meet empowered professionals to partner with, befriend, and stretch your skills alongside. Every day, your energy, your creativity, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.- Overall Objective: Execute production planning activities for intermediates and finished goods as well as order manufactured items from other affiliates. Assure that production plans are created such that products can be manufactured as efficiently as possible, without interruption and supplied on time to our customers. Create a production plan in alignment with schedule and production requirements. Ensure agreed stock levels for customers are met. Minimize write-offs and optimize inventory levels. Manage replenishment and stock level of manufactured items from other affiliates or tollers. Monitor non conformance batches with Quality Lab. Confirm orders and communicate to Customer care.**Missions**:

- Creation of production plan that is executable and in line with productivity and service targets
- Inventory levels meet or exceed company targets
- Supply Chain and Commercial Write-off levels meet budget
- Optimize service to internal and external customers
- Review and analyze production requirements in MRP (Material Requirements Planning) and production capacity to ensure on time customer response times and product availability
- Track and review customer orders for production and resale demands, including raw material resale
- Develop a deep understanding of the replenishment and production systems and processes including MRP, demand and capacity
- Develop understanding of technological, food safety and dietary requirements around produced items and production sites, such as allocation matrix, Halal, Kosher.
- Build constructive and effective relationship with key stakeholders and teams such as Customer Care, Production, Scheduling, Raw Material planning, Logistics, Quality, Transport, and GBS Supply Planning.
- Resolve or escalate supply issues working with internal stakeholders as required. Manage exceptions.
- Share best practice and ideas; involve cross-functional teams as needed to achieve the most efficient ways of working
- Support cost reduction projects and improvement initiatives
- Review slow moving and obsolete inventory
- Follow Givaudan procedures, guidelines and best-practice on relevant areas including Safety; address and implement where missing
- Support development of training programs, manuals and methods of implementation to assure stable and best practice execution of planning
- Review and audit material planning master data (lead time )

**Education**:

- Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Operations Management, Business Administration or equivalent
- Experience:

- 2-3 (Planner) or 5 (Senior Planner) years experience in supply planning, supply chain or production planning
- Knowledge of Production Planning, Inventory Management, Capacity Analysis, Demand, Supply and Supply Chain best practices
- Supply chain certifications (APICS, 6 sigma,) preferred
- Experience in the flavour, ingredient or fragrance industry preferred
- At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
- 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.**Remote working**:Hybrid