Supply Planner

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This position is part of the Supply Planning team in Brazil, working to ensure reliable product availability while maintaining business competitiveness, profitability, and healthy margins. The team connects different parts of the value chain, orchestrating supply activities and ensuring customer needs remain at the center of business decisions.

Working in close collaboration with Sales, Manufacturing, Logistics, Customer Service, Business Finance, and global functions, the Supply Planner plays an important role in ensuring product availability, optimizing inventory levels, and supporting the company's growth through data-driven decisions and continuous process improvement.

The Role & Your Impact:

Operating in a dynamic and cross-functional environment, the Supply Planner is responsible for translating monthly demand plans into feasible production and importation plans, ensuring efficient supply execution and minimizing potential impacts on customer orders.

The role has a strong operational focus, requiring analytical capabilities, effective stakeholder management, and the ability to coordinate activities across local and global functions. By monitoring supply risks, production capacity, and inventory levels, this position contributes to reliable deliveries, operational efficiency, and business performance.

Your Key Responsibilities in this role:

• Create and maintain feasible production plans and importation processes based on monthly demand aligned through the S&OP process;
• Ensure agreed product availability levels for customer orders, proactively minimizing customer impacts when supply delays are anticipated;
• Manage Work in Progress (WIP) and Finished Goods (FG) inventories at relevant sites and warehouses;
• Follow up on customer orders, monitoring, evaluating, and communicating potential supply risks to relevant stakeholders;
• Monitor production capacity and capacity utilization to support effective supply planning and execution;
• Collaborate with local and global stakeholders, including Sales, Manufacturing, Logistics, Customer Service, Business Finance, Global Industry Managers, and Global Capacity teams;
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement, challenging existing processes and contributing to greater operational efficiency.

What you'll need to be successful in this role:

• Bachelor's degree in Production Engineering, Business Administration, Logistics, or a related field;
• Advanced English proficiency;
• Experience analyzing data related to product forecasting, master scheduling, or shipment management;
• Experience in operations, inventory management, MRP, and lean manufacturing processes;
• Experience with MRP, SAP IBP, SAP S/4HANA, ECC, and APO platforms;
• Knowledge of planning parameters, including lead times, lot sizes, safety stocks, and delivery times;
• Good working knowledge of MS Excel and data extraction and analysis from SAP, APO, and BW/AAO platforms;
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to translate data into effective planning decisions;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills;

Additional Skills & Interests We Value:

• Experience coordinating multiple production plants;
• APICS Certification in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM);
• Spanish proficiency;
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to build relationships of trust across different organizational levels;
• A continuous improvement mindset, with the ability to challenge existing processes and identify opportunities to improve efficiency;
• Developed emotional intelligence and the ability to navigate challenging situations and work under pressure;
• Adaptability and effective communication when working with diverse teams and stakeholders.

Our purpose guides the way

In Novonesis, we know that solutions rooted in biology can help solve humanity’s biggest challenges. Since we began more than a century ago, this has been our guide. It’s how we've gotten so far. And it’s how we'll impact the future. Now, more than ever, the world needs change. And with biosolutions, the possibilities for transformation are endless. If our purpose resonates with you, we encourage you to apply.

Opportunities for everyone

We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and equal opportunity for all applicants. Therefore we ask you to apply without a cover letter or photo and instead include a few sentences in your CV explaining your motivation for applying.

We make all employment decisions based on business needs and welcome candidates with a wide range of backgrounds, including ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.

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