Supply Planning Specialist

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At Orbia Water & Climate Solutions (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The places we live in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments!

We are currently looking for a Supply Planning Specialist to join us at Doncaster
. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

Reporting to the Manager MPU North MOE – Planning W&CS, the Supply Planning Specialist will be responsible for leading the development of a mid-long term production plan, assessing the loading of multiple factories, identifying bottlenecks, balancing capacity, and resolving constraints. This plan should aim to enable improvement in product availability while optimising stock levels and maximising production assets capacity utilisation.

The Supply Planning Specialist will also be responsible for supporting the development and execution of action plan proposals to solve identified constraints.

• Develop Mid-long term (3-18M) production plan by plant balancing availability, inventory levels and capacity

• Identify Mid-long-term production constraints, propose solutions and follow up on execution

• Submit mid-term production plan to plant production schedulers for sequencing & execution

• Align on short term production plan with plant production schedulers

• Attend plant weekly SOE meetings (organised by BU SC) to gain visibility on execution progress of short-term production plans and short-term constraints that can serve as input to the development of mid-term production plans

• Support execution of Rough-Cut Capacity Planning to identify long-term production constraints

• Support the development of What If Scenarios simulating possible solutions to identified production constraints

• Support development of action plans to solve identified mid-term production constraints

• Support development of CAPEX investment business cases to support solving mid – long term production restrictions

• Support in preparation & presentation of Monthly Supply Meetings (part of monthly S&OP process)

• Related KPIs:
  Inventory Coverage, OEE, OEU, Availability, Production Execution Rate, Production Commitment

• Production variance to budget

The successful candidate will have a minimum of 3 years relevant work experience, preferably as a planner or business analyst with a strong understanding of supply planning processes including manufacturing rates, capacities and restrictions. An effective communicator with good presentation skills with the ability to successfully interact across functions in the organisation.

The postholder will possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills, tactical and operational planning skills and have the ability to prioritise, manage complexity and be able to elevate issues when needed. Experience using Microsoft Office, SAP APO, SAP IBP or other…