Supply Planner

**Position Snapshot**

Location: La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland
Company: Nestlé Enterprises S.A. - Business Growth Solutions (BGS) division
Activity Rate: Full-Time Activity Rate 100 %
Type of contact: Initial temporary contract of 18 months
Genuine opportunities for career development, training and personal development.
Attractive and dynamic international working environment.
Modern “smart office” locations providing agile & collaborative workspaces.

**Position Summary**

Business Growth Solutions (BGS) division supports Nestlé operating companies & other Nestlé units, by providing them with integrated trading solutions in a professional and cost-effective manner, while offering a platform for business development.
What’s in for me as a BGS team member: BGS is a place where we explore new territories, work with different cultures around the globe and learn how to embrace an entrepreneurial mindset.

To reinforce the BGS Operations team and contribute to our growth, we are currently looking for a Supply Planner for our Cross-Border e-Commerce (CBEC) China business for Nutrition category.
Reporting to the Demand & Supply Planning Manager, your main responsibilities will be to meet consumers and customers demand by ensuring finished goods availability with the highest freshness, in full and on time whilst optimizing total delivered costs through managing, challenging, and optimizing the E2E Supply Chain with an effective Monthly Business Planning process.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Ensure an 18-month Supply plan with our Producers across the world is in place to meet consumers and customer needs, considering both the network complexity and supply constraints.
- Establish and follow-up on stock policies for Finished Goods - taking into account off-takes of CBEC consumers.
- Analyze and effectively communicate supply issues:

- Detailing impacts of proposed actions and related trade-offs, and
- Ensuring actions and Supply Plans are realistic and achievable.
- Challenge Producers on a regular basis to review MOQ (Minimum Order Quantity), frozen production period to improve the supply performance and reduce risk of Bad Goods.
- Maintain and enhance SAP APO Master Data to automatize our ways of working.
- Develop inspiring and leading reporting to support decision making process.

**Education and experience**:

- University’s Degree in Supply Chain, or related discipline - with excellent understanding of E2E Supply Chain concepts.
- Three or more years of relevant operational experience in one of the following areas:

- Demand Planning
- Supply Planning
- Proficiency in SAP APO, MS Excel, PowerBi.
- Team player, with excellent communication skills and demonstrated ability to work effectively across different functions and organizations.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Open-minded, curious, looking for solutions to improve efficiency of operations - not afraid to take ownership and propose new ideas.
- Fluent in English (written & spoken).

At Nestlé, we want to help shape a better and healthier world, inspire people to live healthier lives and deliver impact at a scale and pace that makes a difference. We do this by fostering a diverse, friendly, supportive, and collaborative environment, that creates positive disruption, embraces innovation, and empowers people and teams to win.
We aim to hire friendly, respectful, inspiring people who care about the people’s lives that we touch every single day.