Raw Material Planner

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with our customers, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. 

In the USA, we develop, market and produce a wide array of solutions from our 25 most innovative sites, based across the country. Stretch your skills, create and get inspiration from passionate colleagues. Every day, your energy, your thirst for knowledge, and your creativity will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

As our next Raw Material Planner, reporting to our Raw Material Planning Team Lead, you will build material planning activities for raw materials to assure that finished products can be manufactured without interruption and supplied on time to our customers. Ensure material availability upon production. Minimize write-offs and optimize inventory levels. Cooperate with other departments to increase settings and processes.

In this exciting role, you will be responsible for:

• Key Results areas:
• Planning/Schedule that is 100% executable and following productivity targets to meet production plan
• Inventory levels meet company targets
• Supply Chain Write-off levels meet budget
• Service to customers meet all set targets
• Review and analyze procurement requirements in MRP (Material Requirements Planning) to ensure on time customer response times, raw material availability and minimal waste.
• Release purchase requisitions for raw materials following MOQ (minimum order quantities) and lead time to support the completion of manufacturing requirements. This includes meeting the SLAs established with GBS.
• Review slow moving and obsolete inventory.
• Develop an understanding of the replenishment processes.
• Build constructive and effective relationships with partners and teams such as Finished Goods Planning, Quality, Receiving, Logistics, GBS Operational Buying, GBS Replenishment Planning, GBS Spot Buying and GBS Supply Planning.
• Resolve or escalate supply issues, working with internal stakeholders.
• Share best practice and ideas with the team; involve cross-functional teams to achieve the most efficient ways of working.
• Support cost reduction projects and improvement initiatives.
• Follow Givaudan procedures, guidelines and best practices in relevant areas, including Safety; address and implement where missing.
• Support development of training programs, manuals and methods of implementation to assure stable and best practice execution of planning

Technical Skills:

• Knowledge in planning. Preferably has experience with demand, supply or production
• Affinity to systems and analytical tools
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Working knowledge BI, BO, Google and SAP
• Language Skills: English and other language(s)

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Operations Management, Business Administration or equivalent
• 2-4 years experience in supply planning, supply chain, production planning
• Knowledge of Planning, Inventory Management and Supply Chain best practice

Additional Qualifications

• APICS
• Experience in the flavor, ingredient or fragrance industry
• 6 sigma / lean Yellow or Green Belt

What We Can Offer You:

• Healthcare Plan:
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• High matching 401k plan
• Vacation days

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At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives. You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.

Every essence of you enriches our world. Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners. Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.