Senior Plant Planner

Job Summary

In this role, you will be responsible ensuring schedules and master data is updated, provide quality support to the organization in order to balance desired level of customer service and make the best use of resources and keep inventories at desired level.

Job Responsibilities

• Maintain Product master data and production recipe in SAP.
• Evaluate demand against capacity. Liaise with Master planner, Operation and RPM if demand above capacity.
• Support organization on tool implementation such as APO- PPDS and Oflow.
• Issue detailed schedule for each asset based on a final time-phased production plan.
• Manage production details in line with business strategy (cost, rate, inventory and uptime).
• Assure schedule is continually maintained and communicated throughout the supply chain.
• Highlight and actively participate in the identification and resolution of inventory, raw material supply, customer order issues and quality issues as they develop. Anticipates problem and builds risk mitigation accordingly.
• Communicate production issues, supply changes, deviation from plan and potential resolutions to appropriate parties.
• Manage performance standards and analysis methods to compare actual production performance against the established standards.
• Primary interface between manufacturing and supply chain.
• Work with manufacturing to optimize the plant schedule along with manufacturing capabilities.
• Co-ordinate the production planning with maintenance planning and scheduling needs.
• Validate material availability against asset schedule.
• Drive continuous improvement of planning process and tools – SME / Regional superuser
  
  

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Business Administration or related field is preferred
• 5 years' experience in a similar plant supply planning role (Chemical/Food/Pharma Industry)
• Knowledge of supply planning theory and stock management
• Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) certification is a strong plus
• SAP, APO, MRP training on functional areas of expertise
• APICS Module I (Basics of Supply Chain Management) training
• Six Sigma certification is a strong plus
  
  

We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.

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