Supply Planner

Job Title

Supply Planner

Job Description

Supply Planner

Are you energized by balancing demand, supply, capacity and financial outcomes in a complex, project-driven environment? Do you thrive when working across organizational boundaries to create a single, aligned plan?

We are looking for a Supply Planner who operates at the heart of our Integrated Business Planning (IBP) cycle for the domain Distribution, working in a matrix organization with other domains and corporate planning.

Your Role

As a Supply Planner, you are responsible for translating demand signals into a realistic, feasible supply plan, taking into account constraints across materials, suppliers, capacity and execution.

In this context, you:

• Translate demand into supply scenarios
• Identify constraints and risks
• Enable cross-functional decision-making within your domain and x-domains
• Support meaningful discussions in monthly S&OP / IBP meetings

Key Responsibilities

1. Supply Planning & Scenario Building

• Develop realistic supply plans based on available capacity, supplier capabilities and network constraints
• Identify critical components and capacity constrain and drive mitigation action
• Identify gaps between demand and supply capability and define mitigation scenarios
• Evaluate trade-offs across service, inventory, cost and working capital

2. Operating in a Matrix Organization

• Work closely with supply planners in and across your domain to align supply plans
• Ensure consistency between local plans and the integrated plan
• Act as a connector between central planning, domains and execution functions

3. IBP / S&OP Participation

• Contribute to the monthly supply planning step within the IBP / S&OP cycle
• Prepare inputs for planning and decision meetings
• Highlight risks, assumptions and decision points
• Ensure alignment between:
  • Demand planning
  • Supply planning
  • Resource/capacity planning
  • Financial planning
• Handover decision from S&OP towards S&OE to execute

4. Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate with procurement, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, finance and project teams
• Align top-down financial targets with bottom-up operational plans
• Support resolution of supply constraints and operational challenges
• Linking pin with NPI to ensure new product data available in the planning tool and properly embed in the planning process

5. Network & Materials Planning Integration

• Provide visibility on shortages and surpluses across sites and suppliers
• Enable network-level decision making by consolidating planning inputs
• Align with procurement to ensure material availability and supplier performance
• Identify critical components and capacity constrain and drive mitigation action

6. Execution & Plan Translation

• Translate approved supply plans into ERP / execution systems
• Manage plan changes, project updates and supply chain exceptions
• Ensure alignment between tactical plans and operational execution

7. Continuous Improvement & Planning Maturity

• Improve planning processes, data quality and KPI transparency
• Contribute to increasing planning maturity in areas such as:
  • Inventory alignment
  • Execution prioritization
  • Structured decision making

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business or a related field
• Experience in supply planning, material planning, S&OP or IBP environments
• Experience in working in a matrix organization and cross-functional teams
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into insights and decisions
• Strong (senior) stakeholder management and communication skills
• Experience with ERP and planning tools (e.g. SAP, JDE, Anaplan, or similar)
• Ability to balance short-term execution with mid- to long-term planning

Key Competencies

• Cross-functional collaboration: effectively working across domains and hierarchy levels
• Analytical thinking: translating data into decisions and scenarios
• Influencing without authority: effective in a matrix organization
• Decision-making: balancing trade-offs across service, cost, inventory and capacity
• Process orientation: contributing to structured IBP / S&OP processes