Supply Planning Manager

The Supply Planning Manager is responsible for balancing demand and supply, optimizing service levels, inventory, and supply chain costs. The role coordinates local, regional, and global S&OP processes, ensures MPS execution, and acts as the key liaison with factories and co-manufacturers for supply planning activities.Activities:

• Leads the regional supply planning activities (DRP/Deploy, MPS, RCCP) for the specific category, including stock level setting and optimizing the E2E supply chain mid and long term;
• Creates and execute the DRP and Deployment plan following the business rules and S&OP decisions for prioritization (e.g., execute temporary product allocation, safety stocks, etc.);
• Manages the SLA agreements and distribution planning parameters with the local Ocs (both factory and commercial);
• Reviews and understand the top net demand deviations and contact OCs for supply priority decision;
• Collaborates with other Supply planners (incl. Co-pack Supply planner) to share priorities, understand feedback from the plants and assess possible scenarios;
• Assess the end-to-end allocation and the mid / long-term prioritisation based on margins, financial impact and customer segmentation (incl.penalties);
• Expert and Key user of supply planning tool O9 for the related category;
• Follows up on inventory planning and deployment planning metrics and reporting.