What are the responsibilities and job description for the Supply Planning Lead position at Nestlé USA?
Supply Planning Lead
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POSITION SUMMARY:
Responsible for building production plans respecting agreed level of available capacity to ensure that finished goods are available with high freshness, at the right stock location to meet customer demand whilst minimizing cost and balances expected stock cover. Main point of contact for supply chain execution team to collaborate on issue resolution, strategy execution, process creation and continuous improvement. Integrates with Supply Chain Excellence teams, Demand Planning teams, Customer Facing teams and Network Strategy and Planning teams to deliver on service, working capital and waste targets. Expected to coach and develop supply planners on team to ensure their success and growth. Expected to support and contribute to key Ensure Supply strategic initiatives, including leading where appropriate.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
FINANCIAL/STRATEGIC IMPACT: This role has a significant and direct impact on:
Responsible for building production plans respecting agreed level of available capacity to ensure that finished goods are available with high freshness, at the right stock location to meet customer demand whilst minimizing cost and balances expected stock cover. Main point of contact for supply chain execution team to collaborate on issue resolution, strategy execution, process creation and continuous improvement. Integrates with Supply Chain Excellence teams, Demand Planning teams, Customer Facing teams and Network Strategy and Planning teams to deliver on service, working capital and waste targets. Expected to coach and develop supply planners on team to ensure their success and growth. Expected to support and contribute to key Ensure Supply strategic initiatives, including leading where appropriate.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Create a feasible production plan that respects capacity defined (Available Capacity) so that it best balances expected stock covers and availabilities of finished and semi-finished goods.
- Establishes an 18 months production plan for the factories within their scope of responsibility.
- Establishes Committed Capacity, including timing proposals for plant shutdowns, investments.
- Identification of possible opportunities for the factory within the coming 18-month horizon.
- Identification of possible risks for the factory and/or product supply within the coming 18-month horizon.
- Give advance information on labor requirements through Committed Capacity.
- Develops processes to drive consistency in buy plan process, with expectations of continuous improvement.
- Own system setup accuracy for responsible items, DC's to ensure system operates correctly.
- Develop customer specific inventory strategies in collaboration with customer facing supply chain to deliver best in class service.
- Face of the supply planning function to the business relative to service and fill rate.
- Support Supply Chain establishing of best practices and foundational processes.
- Support standup of Ensure supply IBM meeting
FINANCIAL/STRATEGIC IMPACT: This role has a significant and direct impact on:
- Supply Planning metrics and the overall Supply Chain process.
- Distribution Planning, with the network set up and transportation strategy
REQUIREMENTS AND MINIMUM EDUCATION LEVEL:
EXPERIENCE:
- Undergraduate degree required
EXPERIENCE:
- 5 or more years of relevant operational experience at market/business level is useful, in at least one of the following areas:
- Factory Scheduling
- Supply Network Planning
- Procurement
- Supply Chain Development
- Factory production team leader
- Experience in the following processes would be highly beneficial
- Product lifecycle process
- Manufacturing
SKILLS:
- Can explain in detail the concept and practical working of following topics, as well as highlight main strengths, weaknesses and opportunities of their application while being able to coach and develop others
- Demand and Supply Planning best practices and process
- Capacity and Production Planning processes
- Capacity and Production Planning system
- Inter-Market Supply
- Inventory Planning & Optimization
- Sub-contracting
- Project Materials concept
- SC KPIs
- Understands Best Practices, implications, alignment points, benefits and issues of following elements:
- Integration with other SC and non-SC functions
- Customer Facing Supply Chain
- Demand Planning & Shaping
- Inbound Materials management
- Managing Manufacturing Performance & Manufacturing Standards preparation
- Distribution Planning, with the network set up and transportation strategy
Requisition ID:292601
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