Supply Planner BOL

Overview

PepsiCo is currently looking for Supply Planner to join in Utrecht office.

Job Purpose

As Supply planner you will be operationally responsible for the supply plan for the BoL (Broek op Langedijk) production site.

This site produces pre dominantly but not exclusively for the Benelux and the Nordics and portfolio consists of multiple production lines and approximately 100 SKUs.

Prime responsibility of the supply planning role is to manage the 16 weeks capacity versus demand outlook of the BOL site by realizing stock availability while balancing plant efficiency and stock holding targets.

Your role will require close collaboration with demand and inventory planners, line scheduler and material move planner as well as the manufacturing team, commercialisation managers, supply planning peers and the category planning team.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a 16 weeks rolling supply plan for the respective production site, driving target stock levels and taking into account site planning constraints and material availability constraints thus delivering the target service levels of the different Business Units
• Manage stock availability for the assigned portfolio through daily follow up on stock and service position, to identify risks and mitigation options. To effectively communicate changes to scheduler or BU contact through the appropriate channels.
• Monitor adherence of production actuals to plant schedule and to supply plan, provide feedback and to run a period site review in collaboration with the site line scheduler
• Own the 16-week outlook for total demand vs capacity, to take timely actions to secure service and to prepare a monthly supply review
• Manage capacity constraints, short and long term, to achieve commercial plans while reflecting the manufacturing capability as agreed and provide scenarios for solutions to bottlenecks, integrating input from commercial and manufacturing. This includes the management of NPD, defining conditions for launching NPD and phasing out, aligning on season / event preparation with respective BU
• Provide hands on support to the Senior Supply Planner Snacks and to share expertise with other planners (e.g. overarching view across sites, training, decision maker for interface issues, exchange sessions).

Qualifications

• At least 1-2 years experience in a supply chain role and /or manufacturing, preferably food processing industry
• Good planning skills, highly numerate with the ability to make decisions and judgements, the ability to work in a changing environment generating innovative ideas and creative solutions.
• Execution – Commitment to customer service, attention to detail and the ability to prioritize workloads while working under pressure to challenging timelines.
• Operational Excellence – Ensure improvements are embedded in the processes
• Self-starter, self-motivating - able to deal with uncertainty and complexity
• Ability to work in remote work environment and cooperate with virtual team
• Dutch speaker and fluent in English
• Flexible to travel to Broek op Langedijk regularly & other locations as requested.