Production Planner

Production Planner FR/ENG - CDI - Brabant-Wallon

The successful candidate has a strong analytical mind, which will support him/her to develop, execute, maintain, and report on detailed inventory and production plans for all products packaged, assembled, and manufactured internally, and for all products purchased, that are included in his/her portfolio. Other key responsibilities include analyzing data and making recommendations to achieve profitability, customer service, and inventory levels objectives.
Your new role

• Help define and implement optimized flow to support postponement activities
• Optimize inventory on both finished goods and components to ensure the right quantity of the right product is at the right location at the right time to drive high service levels
• Collaborate closely with the assembly & production teams to plan capacity properly in order to balance supply and demand appropriately
• Communicate availability information and resolve issues with internal stakeholders, suppliers and customers
• Maintain data integrity for planning, purchasing and production MRP elements to facilitate exception-based planning activities
• Create and maintain production orders and purchase orders
• Actively contribute to the SIOP process and review and execute to capacity constraints and operations plan on a regular basis
• Provide supply and inventory projections for components and capacity long term planning
• Set up master data for materials
• Track and deep dive on KPIs including OTIF, Overstock, Past Due, Inventory days, etc.
• Work closely with the warehouse, Customer Service/Customer Contact Center, Product Marketing/Category Management, and local Managing Director to ensure target order fill rates are being met for daily customer orders
• Initiate, organize, and participate in continuous improvement activities
• Identify opportunities for improvement in the document control process and participate in department or company training activities

Your profile

• Master’s degree in business or related discipline, with focus in supply chain, preferred
• SAP Planning (MM/PP) experience
• Production planning experience preferred
• APICS certifications and/or coursework in planning, scheduling, inventory management, inventory control, Lean, Six Sigma, and theory of constraints, preferred
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, effective business analysis, project management and quantitative skills
• Fluent in English & French.
• Proficient in using, navigating, reporting through Excel
• ERP software : SAP preferred

What you’ll get in return
A competitive compensation and benefits package.
What you need to do now
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