QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

• Educational Background: A Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain or a related field, or substantial experience in Material Planning.
• Experience: A minimum of 1-2 years in a Supply Chain Planning or Procurement role.
• Industry/Sector Experience: Experience in the Food Ingredients & Flavours or Beverage industry is preferred but not mandatory.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in ERP systems (SAP preferred but not mandatory) and Excel is required. Familiarity with PowerBI is advantageous

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are currently looking for Supply Chain Specialists for our newly established Planning Services Centre in Oleśnica near Wrocław. The Planning Services Centre in Oleśnica is a newly established hub designed to streamline and enhance our supply chain operations across Europe. The Planning Services Centre serves as the central point for all supply chain planning activities, including Transport Planning, Material Planning, and Supply Planning- Master Production Scheduling.
The Material Planner is responsible for managing material call-offs within the central supply chain function. This role involves close collaboration with the Central Supply Planner, Site Production Scheduler, Central Transport Planner, and cross-functional teams working collaboratively with Material Call Off. The primary objective is to ensure timely and complete material call-offs, enabling the achievement of committed output (OTIF).
If you are focused on development, have relevant educational background and/or experience in Material Planning, are eager to learn, willing to travel for business, and are ambitious, then we are looking for you!

THE MATERIAL PLANNER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE AREA OF MATERIAL CALL-OFF WITHIN THE SUPPLY CHAIN FUNCTION AT CENTRAL LEVEL, INCLUDING:

• Responsible for Managing Alerts in the call off process including rescheduling alerts, over coverage, under coverage and short reporting.
• Responsible for the ordering process including converting purchase requisitions to purchase orders, sending purchase orders to vendor, and obtaining vendor confirmation.
• Responsible for the daily metrics review including inbound deliveries which are delivered short, taking care of material concerns and escalations, reviewing purchase orders not confirmed by the vendor.
• Responsible for managing Internal & External communications via SAP Cockpits and/or Email / Teams.
• Responsible for the process of Tolling and Sub-Contracting including the dispatch of materials to vendor and updating the component details into a purchase order (Where applicable).
• Maintaining & managing supplier OTIF, escalating as and where required to Category Material Planner whilst maintaining reasoning codes for failures.
• Responsible for checking and flagging required maintenance of relevant master data for skus including management of NPI impacting call-off to Planning Data Analyst.