SCM Network Planning Manager - Critical Power Solutions Business, Supply Chain Management

What you’ll do:

The Supply Chain Network Planner is a leading role in the integrated, intelligent and agile supply chain organization, focusing on the full SIOP horizon including execution ( 0-36 months).  The Network Planner is responsible for demand-supply balancing for their value stream and provides insights on demand at risk for their portfolio. Sets and maintains the guardrails by which the consensus supply plan is generated, taking into consideration constraints, allocation and prioritization rules for the full horizon and manages critical exceptions in mid-term. Role is one of liaising with the whole network horizontally rather than going into the detail. 

• Manages a team of Network Schedulers / MPS planners responsible for value stream in the 0-3 months window and functionally collaborates with a team of Buyers, Material Planners and Order Managers.  
• Manage capacity vs demand (0-36 months horizon), flagging any exceptions, driving solutions and decision making to close the gap.
• Partners with operations, warehousing and operational procurement if capacity gaps require escalation.
• Manages replenishment strategy across value stream in line with the inventory policy. Conducts regular parameters audits.
• Creates the consensus supply plan, balancing FG inventory and capacity with the objective to meet demand on-time and in full.
• Ensures production schedule adherence and attainment.
• Works with SIOP and business teams to update FG inventory targets and inventory policies.
• Reviews supply and inventory performance metrics, inventory outlook projection, identify gaps vs targets & improvement opportunities and liaise with relevant stakeholders to execute improvement action plans.
• Accountable for value stream improvements in cash, cost and customer service results.
• Initiates scenario planning to optimize the plan on service, cash and costs.
• Prioritizes order allocation in case of supply constraint (affecting more than one market/ customer) in collaboration with the Execution Scheduler.
• Provides relevant information to the divisional SIOP meetings regarding supply vs. demand (capacity) and FG inventory performance   

Qualifications:

• Preferably MBA or Masters in Supply Chain / Operations or Engineering
• 10+ years of supply chain management and planning experience for a global or multi-plant industrial company
  
  

Skills:

• Working across supply chain / operations with a proven track record of influencing & delivering results across the end-to-end product and supply chain management processes.
• Experience as a leader of people
• Ability to manage complex material flows across multi-tier manufacturing & distribution networks
• Prior experience of Advanced Planning Systems a plus – although not mandatory
• Broad foundational technical expertise across areas such as planning, execution, procurement & plant operations.
• Experiencing building strong partnerships and influencing cross functional stakeholders in sales, finance, product line leaders and HR
• Deep understanding of how supply chain impacts P&L and working capital
• Ability to analyze, interpret and draw conclusions on large volumes of data
• CPIM certified a plus
• Holistic perspective, ability to adapt to different cultures and to get results in a complex environment
• Influential, visible internal and external leader able to challenge the status quo, motivate and inspire teams to work together to solve complex challenges
• Must be able to build strong relationships at all levels
• Storytelling ability using data to generate scenarios, including communicating outcomes to a non-technical audience

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What we can offer to you:

• Contract in fast growing global company
• Challenging projects in dynamic collaborative team
• Great promotional opportunities - We encourage internal promotion, whenever possible
• Excellent working environment - safety and ethic are really important for us