Planning Manager

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with our customers, 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 16,800 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with.
In the USA, we develop, market and produce a wide array of solutions from our 25 most innovative sites, based across the country. Stretch your skills, create and get inspiration from passionate colleagues. Every day, your energy, your thirst for knowledge, and your creativity 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.

Lead the supply and production capacity planning for Operations (Fragrances) at local level for a large/complex site, based on end-to-end production cycle time, inventory, technical challenges, productivity and EHS requirements to secure that products can be manufactured and supplied on time to customers from existing manufacturing facilities.

In this position you will:

• Provide important supply and production capacity inputs to the regional Operations (D&S) plans and help design the local Operations and Supply Chain & Planning strategies and definition of related goals based on input provided by other local functions, e.g. Commercial or Business Development.
• Oversee the design and execution of tactical and operational plans at site level to meet local Operations goals.
• Maintain an appropriate level of inventory following corporate standards (SLOB/Inventory ownership and leadership)
• Control that customer (internal and external) response is made on time and develop realistic daily plans considering capacity and raw material availability.
• Work under the standards of quality, safety and industrial hygiene and good practices.
• Analyze planning performance and improve the Indicators by using statistical models and best practices.
• Implement opportunities for improvement.
• Monitor and check accuracy of supply and inventory data in related systems.
• Produce and distribute daily, weekly, and monthly status reports (e.g. COOISPI schedule, OTS, past due purchase orders).
• Advise on and monitor configurations in SAP.
• Oversee the execution of annual human resources processes within the Site Planning team and validate related results.
• Work with the local and regional Supply Chain & Planning and Operations management and HR Business Partner(s) in developing a local talent pipeline.

You?

Are you someone who wants to shape their own world? Who is interested in leadership opportunities and building teams? Who excels being in a culture where you can express yourself in a creative team environment? Who wants to collaborate and work in a team as passionate as you are? Then join us – and influence your world.

Your professional profile includes:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management or related discipline
• MBA or Master's Degree in a Technical field preferred
• 7+ years of experience manufacturing operations with a background in supply chain planning, quality or materials management, including exposure to business process redesign and systems implementations.
• 5+ years of experience in people management
• Understanding of Forecasting (Statistical Models)
• Affinity to systems and analytical tools (Desired SAP, BI,BO)

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.