WHAT MAKES YOU A GOOD FIT

• 5-8 years of experience in supply chain management, preferably demand/supply planning, operations or product/technology management
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in relevant field, preferably supply chain management, operations research, (industrial) engineering, or applied mathematics
• Strong communication and change management skills
• Excellent team collaboration, organization, and time management
• Fluent in English
• Experience with SAP, MS Office, APO DP/SNP
• Proficient in data analytics and related tools.

• Develop and maintain global supply strategies and long-term supply plans (2-5 years) to enable profitable long-term business growth in close collaboration with our Global Production Network Heads
• Collect, validate, and challenge business strategies and related long-term demand projections from the Business Units, incl. market growth, innovation, and attrition in close collaboration with our SBU Demand Planners/Market Strategy Managers/Technology Managers and Global Production Network PMO Managers
• Collect, validate, and challenge capacity information from the Plant/Operations teams (type of work center, operating hours per KG of finished product, Operating Equipment Effectiveness) in close collaboration with our Supply Planning and Operations teams
• Convert demand projections into capacity requirements and identify constrained and underutilized work centers using our ETL tools
• Optimize interregional supply through balancing global vs regional supply
• Propose adjustments to supply strategies and identify CAPEX requirements and/or rationalization opportunities in close collaboration with our Global Production Network Heads and PMO Managers: make sure we invest/divest the right production resources
• Evaluate/validate any CAPEX requests from the Regional Operations teams as part of the annual budgeting cycle
• Create and lead Global Supply Reviews: quarterly/bi-annual cross-functional platform to review supply strategies and long-term supply strategies involving Business Units (Product/Technology Management) and Global/Regional Operations & Supply Chain
• Support Regional PMO Operations teams in network design studies and manufacturing footprint optimization projects triggered by the Global Supply Reviews
• Support Global Technology Managers in making the best use/allocation of raw materials and capacity in case of supply constraints
• Improve the process/tools for developing and maintaining supply strategies with other Supply Network Steering Managers.