Network Supply 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.

Network Supply Planner, your next position?

Reporting to the EAME Network Supply Manager, you will develop integrated supply network for respective technologies and sites; Establish methodology to manage production capacity based on forecasted demand; Improve efficiency and minimize cost; Lead SLOB processes and corrective actions; Develop metrics and solutions for improving inventory health (age, value, turns); Minimize impact on reserve; Use Site Supply Reviews to develop recommendations for solving complex supply issues and enhance capacity utilization; Mitigate Service Risks; Align best practices and training within the region; Manage Raw material long-term requirements, contracting and allocation process; Support transfers between sites.

This is a hybrid position (4 days at the office, 1 at home) based in our South Hackensack location.

In this exciting position, you'll work with...

• Work in close collaboration with our Shared Service Center, customer care, demand planning, raw material planning, and planning streams/systems to ensure service level to customers
• Improve supply network; balance capacity and inventory across the supply network
• Propose and lead processes/ways of working for more efficiency and reduced cost
• Project Management
• Review slow-moving and obsolete inventory. Manage reserve projections.
• Promote inventory policies and planning parameters
• Develop and improve reports and tools
• Monitor critical supply constraints & escalate supply issues
• Product life cycle management; review changes to existing business, new/lost business, and review formulation changes to mitigate risk
• Contribute to transfers within the region and across regions
• Follow Givaudan procedures, guidelines, and best-practice in relevant areas including Safety; address and implement where missing
• Accountable for Site, technology, or Regional Supply Reviews
• Connect with other regions (operations, planning, supply)

You?

• Bachelor’s Degree or Related Experience in Supply Chain Management required;
• 2+ years in a Supply Chain role or related;
• Strong knowledge of Inventory Management, Capacity Analysis, Planning processes, and supply chain best practices (i.e. APICS, continuous improvement certifications);
• Experience in the flavor, ingredient, or fragrance industry preferred.

Comprehensive Benefits plans including Medical, Dental, Vision, and a high matching 401k

#LI-Hybrid

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.