Planning Manager

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Planning Manager (h/f/d) - Your next role?
- Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness, humility, and a spirit of adventure, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn from our 79 production sites worldwide, known for their best-in-class processes and procedures. There’s many to learn from, with high-performing leaders and caring colleagues to explore ideas and ambitions with. Every day, your energy, your personality, and your determination 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.- We are looking for our new **Planning Manager (h/f/d).**

As a Planning Manager (h/f/d), you will join our **Vernier Operations for Fragrance division** and you will directly report to our **Head of Operations.**
- You will lead the supply and production capacity planning for Vernier Operation, to secure that products are manufactured and supplied on time to customers. You will also communicate with local, regional and global stakeholders. You will manage **two direct reports** acting as Team Leads within the department composed of about **twenty people**.

Sounds interesting? It could well be your perfect opportunity if, like us, you always aim to exceed customer needs, provide value and are experienced at promoting relationships.

**In this exciting role you will**:

- Strategy Design and Execution:

- As a member of the Vernier Operations leadership team, you will provide essential supply and production capacity inputs to the regional Operations plans and help design the local Operations and Supply Chain & Planning strategies. You will also be responsible of the definition of related goals based on input provided by other functions, e.g. Commercial or Business Development. With your expertise you will oversee the design and execution of tactical and operational plans at site level to meet Vernier Operations goals.
- Function Management:

- You will work under best practices related to safety and industrial hygiene, quality and standard good practices. You will maintain an appropriate level of inventory following corporate standards and balance raw material availability. In the meantime, you will control that our customer's response is made on time and you will develop realistic daily plans considering capacity and raw material availability. You will be the main contact regarding escalation point for resolution of problems, complaints and prioritization issues. You will analyse and communicate planning performance and continuously improve the KPI’s. Moreover, you will build improvement opportunities and deploy global projects. You will also control and report achievement of service level targets to partners. You will develop annual budget and expense control, and perform the annual operating plan. On top of that, you will monitor workload and calendars to maintain the balance in the department.
- People Management:

- You will oversee the annual human resources processes within the Site Planning team and validate related results. It includes that you will work with the local and regional Supply Chain & Planning, Operations management and HR Business Partner(s) in developing a local talent pipeline. You will also guide the development and the promotion of Planning talents within and outside Supply Chain & Planning and Operations at local level.

**You?**
Are you someone who wants to grow your world? Who excels being in a culture where you can express yourself in a creative team environment? Who wants to collaborate and learn together with teams who are as passionate as you are? Then join us - and improve your world.**Your success profile includes**:

- MBA or Master’s Degree in a Technical field or Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management or related discipline;
- 7 or more years of experience manufacturing operations with a background in supply chain planning, quality and materials management, including exposure to business process redesign and systems implementations;
- 5 or more years of experience in people management;
- Understanding of Forecasting (Statistical Models);
- APICS Certification Desired;
- SAP/MRP expertise;
- Fluent French and English languages;
- Affinity to systems and at ease with data analyses (Desired tools SAP, BI,BO).

**Our Benefits**:

- Healthcare support
- Paid Time Off and family leave
- Retirement plan
- Sport and leisure clubs
- Company shop
- Staff restaurant

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