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