Ferrero is a family-owned company with a truly progressive and global outlook and iconic brands such as Nutella®, Tic Tac®, Ferrero Rocher®, Raffaello®, Kinder Bueno® and Kinder Surprise®. As the love for our brands continues to grow, so too does our global reach. Represented in more than 50 countries, with products sold in more than 170, the Ferrero Group is loved by generations around the world. The secret to our global success? 40,000 dedicated employees who celebrate care and quality to craft a business, careers and brands we are proud of. Join us, and you could be one of them.
The Supply Planner is responsible for responding to demand and supply changes in a timely and accurate manner in complex scenarios. This individual ensures appropriate safety stock levels are maintained that ensure case fill and freshness targets are met at market and DC level. This individual works closely with demand planning, customer service, sales forecasting, marketing to ensure customer requirements for product are met. He or she measures and monitors SC performance as per KPI established by Supply Chain and minimizes destructions and close out. The Supply Planner will be responsible of managing low/medium complex (defined by % of gross sales and complexity of the brand) in collaboration with the Manager/Director.
• Lead weekly consensus meeting
• Provides perspective on Supply implications of the forecast changes
• Identify critical issues that arise in the consensus meeting that are linked to the freshness and fill rate
• Review latest criticality report distributed to the business
• Answer/update supply issues, any potential freshness issues
• Discuss upcoming promotion and launches and transitions plans (phase in/phase out including discontinued items
• develop and agree on action plan of the critical issues
• packaging availability /liability
• Check coverage market level and physical coverage at DC
• Ensure that proper plans are generated, the following must be checked and corrected if not correct:
• Review production proposal and provide feedback if the production requires adjustment ensuring that coverage (days of supply) is on target
• Liaise with Area operating planning in production updates and related issues
• Generate production requests (Short term and long term) based on latest Operative plan, demand insight, ensuring target days of supply.
• Generate and distribute weekly stock coverage/ availability reports to the different stakeholders
• Manage frozen forecast production for promo and seasonal item that happen on time and in full
• Work on priorities with the different repack sites
• Manage bulk availability and coverage
• Manage production requests
• Definition of the production plan for the third parties copacker site
• Communicate to the overseas plant the shipment split to whs
• Interact with WHS for frozen requirements
• Communicate container priority to WHS and transportation
• Risk file generation and minimize destructions and close out
• Analyze past years statistical data in order to set parameters for next fiscal year like:
• Validate/Update Monthly Operating Targets determined by management
• Seasonal retro planning to insure CRAD
• Develop bulk disaggregation according the BOM to ensure business totals are correct
• Analyze Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and report for a specific brand vs set targets
• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, or related fields.
• Experience working as Production, Demand or Supply Planner in similar business for several years and/or in complex environments (import, export, multiple repacking sites and multiple plants and DC’s network)
• Knowledge of import/export and overseas challenges (lead times/customs/ transportation requirements etc)
• Knowledge of repacking and co-packing processes – management multiple repacking sites
• Experience in CPG industry
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel).
• Advanced knowledge of SAP / APO systems or similar.
• Knowledge of and experience working with project management principles and tools.
• Excellent communication skills to interact effectively with cross functional team and different stakeholders
• Result driven, self-motivated, proactive and independent.
• Able to work in a team environment & manage conflicting priorities while meeting deadlines.
• Ability to prioritize requests and communicate response expectations.
• Ability to work independently and with others in a customer focused environment
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills
• Proactive behavior in anticipating issues, find root cause analysis skills and build and fix processes
Consumers, quality and care are at the heart of everything we do. So, to be successful at Ferrero, you’ll need to be just as consumer and product centric as we are - dedicated to crafting brilliant results for consumers around the world.
Ferrero N.A. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.
Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all of our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative and highly rewarding.
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