Global CSM Planning Leader

Company Description

Veolia Group is a global leader in environmental services, operating across all five continents with nearly 218,000 employees. Specializing in water, energy, and waste management, Veolia Group designs and implements innovative solutions for decarbonization, depollution, and resource regeneration, supporting communities and industries in their ecological transformation. Within this framework, Veolia's Water Technology Business brings together a dedicated team of experienced professionals committed to tackling the world’s most complex challenges related to water scarcity, quality, productivity, and energy.

Together, we pursue a shared mission to create a more sustainable future.

Our North America Chemical Solutions and Monitoring (CSM) Supply Chain group has ~300 team members across 9 sites (Beaumont, TX, Orange, TX, New Philadelphia, OH, Addison, IL, Bakersfield, CA, Trevose, PA, Macon, GA, Edmonton, Canada, and Oakville, Canada). We are seeking a dedicated professional to improve our planning practices to increase our order fulfillment to customers.

POSITION SUMMARY
In this role, you are responsible for our sales & operations execution across all CSM sites globally. This includes, but is not limited to: executing the material strategy, fulfillment and control, as well as production planning. You will work with each site globally to standardize and optimize as much as possible our practices, processes, tools, metrics, and targets, and will create a community of planners across the global CSM sites.

In this role, you are also responsible for implementing Kinaxis at the sites within the first 12-24 months of your job, in collaboration with the S&OP and Continuous Improvement teams. You will work in close collaboration with our S&OP and Procurement teams to reach our goals globally.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Material Planning:

• Inventory strategy:
  • Execute the Cycle Stock and Strategic Stock (Commercial) for Raw Materials (RM) & Finished Goods (FG) in accordance with inventory strategy approved on Plan Consensus Review led by the S&OP team.
  • Define and upload in SAP the Strategic Stock (Strikes, Supplier issues) for RM & FG in accordance with inventory strategy and Delegation of Authority (DoA).
  • Changes in SAP for the Safety Stock for RM & FG in accordance with inventory strategy and DoA.
  • Execute consensus plan to meet service levels targets, safety stock and inventory levels of RM & FG.
  • Create and maintain accurate supply plans, balancing inventory levels with production and sales needs.
  • Determine MRP MOQ / EOQ for Buy Materials in collaboration with Procurement.
  • Supervise and ensure the redefinition of important parameters related to materials planning in the ERP system, including:
    Total replenishment time, planned delivery time, minimum lot size, minimum order quantity, among others working in collaboration with a multifunctional team.
• Excess and obsolete inventory:
  • Analyze the excess and obsolete inventory operational position (e.g. SMNM) defining the action plan for RM &FG.
  • Execute the action plan for excess and obsolete inventory operational position (e.g. SMNM) defining the action plan for RM & FG.
  • Work with the sites, Finance and S&OP teams to reduce slow-moving non-moving inventory reserves by conducting thorough RCA and determining improvement actions.
• Inventory accuracy:
  • Develop robust processes for the sites to follow on cycle counts and accuracy. Analyze inventory discrepancies via thorough RCA and determine improvement actions.
  • Collaborate with Finance on the sites’ annual physical counts.
• Materials fulfillment:
  • Ensure materials fulfillment, working with the procurement team and suppliers to ensure timely deliveries of products and aligning material availability with production schedules and plans.
  • Investigate, together with the Purchasing team, atypical situations in the supply chain to define the need to anticipate or postpone orders based on market fluctuations to avoid the risk of production interruptions.
  • Develop strategies, together with the Purchasing team, for materials with exclusive suppliers (Sole Sourcing) in order to guarantee the continuity of the supply of raw…