**Location**: Barcelona, Spain
A critical leadership role in regional planning that will own the end-to-end planning process and orchestration and be accountable for driving planning capability improvement with better service to enable growth for our business.
**Key Responsibilities**:
Operational Leadership - Identify and drive the fundamental changes necessary to orient planning team behaviours towards customer needs ; build, motivates and lead the planning community in line with Firmenich core values;
Risk management - Improve our capability in managing supply chain risk, managing variability through plans to surge material and capacity capabilities whilst optimizing asset utilization
Complexity - Develop and improve the process roadmap to manage the supply chain complexity, minimize the service, cost and productivity loss
Operational Excellence - Lead implementation of a performance-driven culture by implementing Continuous Improvement/Lean principles and concepts.
Sustainability - overall planning capability building to ensure long-term success (organizational capability, process capability and tools capability)
People - Identify, retain & develop key talents
**We Value**:
A minimum of bachelor’s degree with 10+ years working experience in supply chain and 7+ years working in a leadership capacity
Planning Expertise, E2E supply chain understanding, including procurement/logistics/manufacturing, could make the appropriate recommendations with complex trade-off management between different SC Functions
SAP Experience, including SAP ECC system and CRM system; advanced planning system experience with at least one of APO/IBP/O2/Kinaxis, APICS-CPIM or similar certification preferred
Strong Finance & Costing understanding, know the costing flow through all the supply chain goods flow, understand financial implications with trade-off management, and drive the decisions with the best short/long term financial results
**We Offer**:
This role will be mainly interacting with internal stakeholders
To ensure customer service and satisfaction and Supply Chain to provide visibility and orchestration
A critical leadership role in regional planning who will own the end-to-end planning process, orchestration and be accountable for driving planning capability improvement with better service to enable growth for our business
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