Production Planner

Step into our world of creativity and joy

Production Planner
- Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with passion and imagination, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. 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.
In France, discover the empowered passionate professionals who made history creating our legendary perfumery school. Feel the heritage. Acquire knowledge and experience, gained in our renowned European Creation Centre, or from any of our 17 innovative sites across the country. Every day, your commitment, your humility, and your risk-taking will shape our future. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.- Overall Objective:
- Build production planning activities for intermediates and finished goods.- 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 according to 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 with Customer care.- Your main Results areas:- Create a production plan that is executable and follows productivity and service targets
- Inventory levels exceed company targets
- Supply Chain and Commercial Write-off levels meet budget
- Improve service to internal and external customers
- Review 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 an understanding of the replenishment and production processes including MRP, demand, and capacity
- Develop an understanding of technological, food safety, and dietary requirements around produced items and production sites, such as allocation matrix, Halal, Kosher.
- Build relationships with important partners and teams such as Customer Care, Production, Scheduling, Raw Material logistics, Quality, Transport, and Global Business Solutions Supply Planning.
- Resolve or escalate supply issues by working with your team.
- Share best practices and ideas; involve teams to achieve the most efficient ways of working
- Support cost reduction projects and improvement projects
- Review slow-moving and obsolete inventory
- Follow Givaudan procedures, guidelines, and best-practice in relevant areas including Safety; address and implement where missing
- Support the development of training programs, manuals, and methods of implementation to ensure stable and best-practice execution of planning
- Audit material planning master data (lead time )**Primary Qualifications**:
- Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Operations Management, Business Administration or equivalent
- 2-3 (Planner) or 5 (Senior Planner) years of 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,) are preferred.
- Experience in the flavor, ingredient, or fragrance industry**Technical Skills**:- Working knowledge in planning. Preferably have experience with demand, supply, or production.
- Show flexibility when solving complex problems.
- Affinity to systems and analytical tools.
- Continuous improvement mindset.
- Working knowledge BI, BO, Google.
- SAP experience.
- Language Skills: English and German are a plus.**Your benefits in Avignon**:
- 25 days of holiday per year
- Health coverage is partially paid for by our company
- 1 remote working day per week
- Incentive bonus
- Career development opportunities- 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