RESPONSABILITIES:

•    Develop, implement, manage and improve capacity planning process incorporating all relevant external suppliers across X-tier levels identifying the individual constraints (eg: resources, sub components, etc) and providing transparency about excess/lack of capacities within the planning horizon and beyond 
•    Develop, implement and manage and improve corporate resource planning process that incorporates all resources (assets, staff) and provides transparency about excess/lack of capacities within the planning horizon and beyond 
•    Orchestrating X-tier actions in order to handle ramp up/down scenarios of overall/individual markets or key accounts 
•    Orchestrating actions across departments and plants in order to handle ramp up/down scenarios of overall/individual markets or key accounts 
•    Performs analysis on: 
o    forecast on component and supplier/resource level in order to indicate major developments and proactively identifies potentially impacted business (volume/BU/customer/region) in order to provide the relevant basis for S&OP meetings and decisions 
o    actual demand and forecasted demand (FC accuracy on MRP result), investigates on major deviations identifying and solving root causes 
•    identifying clusters/patterns in order to optimize capacity planning/strategy 
•    Coordinate with cross-functional business teams to develop the best strategy to support customer demand 
•    Communicate with external/internal suppliers if needed for coordination & clarification in terms of relevant changes of FC 
•    Trigger/coordinate implementation and change of planning strategies supporting relevant counterparts (eg.: PLSCM, Category mgmt., production and materials scheduling, etc.)  
•    Coordinate and work with the relevant external counterparts (suppliers) as well as internal (cross-functional) departments to ensure and optimize fulfillment of forecasted volumes and required flexibility 
•    Participates as a member of operations team making cross-functional operational decisions

KEY EXPERIENCES 

•    Maintain and provide current understanding of industry best practices 
•    Identify tools, processes and metrics to optimize demand planning processes 
•    Ability to contribute in a cross functional collaborative environment 
•    Ability to leverage metrics and other tools / reports to drive materials planning processes 
•    Experienced in coordinating and handling external partners (suppliers and customers) 

COMPETENCIES 

•    At least 5 years’ experience in planning of customer forecast, market intelligence and/or S&OP process 
•    Working knowledge and understanding of ERP/MRP systems and their use in a manufacturing environment 
•    Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access 
•    Ability to demonstrate solid written and oral communication skills 
•    Good analytical problem solving ability  
•    Data mgmt. skills beneficial: 
•    Advanced analysis methods 
•    Machine learning beneficial 
•    Big data mgmt./analytics 
•    Languages:  English language (German is beneficial)