Production Planner

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 16,000 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.

Reporting to the Planning Team Lead for Global T&W Operations, our Production Planner will build the activities for intermediates and finished goods and order manufactured items from other North America affiliates. As the Production Planner, you will 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.

This position is located in Cincinnati, OH.

In this exciting role you will be responsible for:

• Create production plan that is executable and following productivity and service targets

• Inventory levels meet company targets

• Supply Chain and Commercial Write-off levels meet budget

• Increase 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 systems 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 relationship with partners and teams such as Customer Care, Production, Scheduling, Raw Material planning, Quality, Transport, and GBS Supply Planning.

• Resolve or escalate supply issues working with company partners. Manage exceptions.

• Share best practice and ideas with your team; 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 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 material lead times

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Operations Management, Business Administration or equivalent
• 2-3 years experience in supply planning, supply chain.Knowledge of Production Planning, Inventory Management, Capacity Analysis, Demand, Supply and Supply Chain best practices.

Additional Qualifications:

• APICS

• Experience in the flavor, ingredient or fragrance industry

• 6 sigma / lean Yellow or Green Belt

Technical Skills:

• Strong working knowledge in planning. Preferably has experience with demand, supply or production.

• Problem Solving Skills.

• Strong affinity to systems and analytical tools.

• Continuous improvement mindset

• Working knowledge BI, BO, Google and SAP

What We Can Offer You:

• Healthcare Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)

• High matching 401k plan

• Hybrid Schedule

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We are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

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.