NORAM Senior Supply Planner

A family-owned Group serving customers globally, Roquette is a leader in speciality food ingredients and pharmaceutical excipients.

The products and solutions developed by the Group deliver proven technological, nutritional and health benefits precisely tailored to the pharma, nutrition, food and selected industry markets.

Roquette's offer is produced from plant-based raw materials such as corn, wheat, potatoes and peas.

Since its foundation over 80 years ago, the Group's growth has been based on innovation, a passion for the job and a commitment to achieve.

Roquette is a family-owned global leader in plant-based ingredients and a leading provider of pharmaceutical excipients.

Want to help us make a difference?

Using plant-based resources, we collaborate with our customers and partners to imagine and offer ingredients to better feed people and treat patients.

Each of our ingredients responds to unique and essential needs, and they enable healthier lifestyles.

We are looking for our next Sr. Supply Planner within our Supply Chain Team. The Sr. Supply Planer will be responsible for bridging strategic planning and operational execution, ensuring customer demand is met while optimizing inventory levels, production capacity, service performance, and working capital.

This position is located in Keokuk, IA or Geneva, IL.

The current salary range for this role is estimated to be $100,000 – $130,000. In addition, this position may also be eligible to earn performance-based incentive compensation. The specific compensation offered to a candidate will be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

• Create and update supply plans (production and distribution) at SKU/weekly horizon for North America region, considering manufacturing capacities, logistics and transport limitations, customer demand, inventory policy, alignment with regional SIOP, and raw material availabilities
• Identify and communicate potential bottlenecks and/or risks to supply and propose mitigation plans
• Identify and communicate potential business opportunities linked to under utilization which could impact the costs of supply
• Communicate plan results and alerts, with coordination with main stakeholders to agree on risk mitigation plans (liase with Manufacturing, PLM, Demand Planning, Supply Schedulers, Procurement, Finance, etc.)
• Establish and adhere to inventory policy by SKU/storage location and in line with regional SIOP, enabling the continuity of product availability to optimize free cash flow, align with business strategy, account for demand/supply volatilities, and account for lead times
• Monitor and analyze production KPI metrics, with focus on supply plan adherence, to identify root causes and implement improvements to supply assumptions, models, and processes
• Ensure data integrity within all tools and systems
• Act as leader for specific key initiatives to improve the team’s results and efficiency, such as KPI improvement projects, process redesigns, data analysis, and optimization
• Provide analysis and recommendations in support of SKU rationalization processes
• Participate in any inventory cycle or full physical counts each year
• Ensure clear understanding, agreement, and communication of all plans
• Coordination of plan results and supply alerts with impacted groups to execute risk mitigation plan

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain or related business field

• 3-5 years Planning/Scheduling Experience
• Understanding of product and process cost structures in making informed planning decisions
• Knowledge of corn wet milling industry preferred
• Strong oral and written communication
• Demonstrated aptitude with math and statistics
• Str…