EAME Supply Chain Planner - Biologicals

About this opportunity:

EAME Supply Chain Planners are responsible for a given portfolio within EAME and distributed globally ensuring customer on time delivery.  Working with the in-market countries and supply chain managers to maintain the balance of overall supply/demand requirements for their portfolio, proactively identifying demand uncertainties and future supply constraints. 

The Biologicals Supply Chain Planning role has two main areas of focus:

1. Successfully implementing new biologicals deals across EAME from an operational perspective
2. Manage the ongoing demand and supply of your portfolio

Ultimately being responsible for customer on-time delivery for a given portfolio, ensure efficient use of Inventory and introduce new products to the agreed timelines. In addition to standard planning duties a Supply chain planner will act as a role model within the FF&P supply chain planning team. Stepping into additional work to support the Supply Chain operation managers as & when required.

You will be accountable for:

• Taking new deals from the implementation lead and making it a successful operational reality across EAME for product for resale (PFR) and bulk deals
• Be an expert biologicals planner who understands the differences to CP and navigates accordingly
• Manage the overall supply/demand balance for the respective portfolio reviewing the sales forecast & net demands, creating balanced production and supply plans for the 4–24 month horizon.
• Proactively identify demand uncertainties and future supply constraints to develop options/scenarios, ensuring that future supply plans are optimized.
• Provide operational coordination across the end-to-end supply chain to achieve the right balance between inventory and customer service levels.
• Utilize financial metrics to optimize cash management when managing trade-offs between inventory, production, purchases and logistics decisions.
• Actively contribute to and coordinate execution of supply chain activities in close cooperation with the supply chain teams.
• Actively share knowledge formally through projects and networks of excellence.
• Ensure effective application of processes and the use of SAP/APO and act as an operational consultant to drive sustainable continuous improvement
• Champion customer centricity across the supply chains you can influence
• Identify, drive and champion continuous improvement initiatives
• Deputies for other Supply Chain Planners as and when required.
• Lead supplier operational engagements (Resource Operational Planning – ROP meetings) with key suppliers to ensure the best service levels to the business

Role purpose:

• Successful implementation of 3rd party deals
• Successful growth of the biologicals business
• Maintain agreed service levels of the business by managing the end-to-end supply chain for allocated portfolio, providing options to meet commercial upsides and downsides.
• Ensure efficient use of the end-to-end inventory, whilst minimizing working capital.
• Stakeholder management (commercial, supply chain managers, sourcing) & teamwork within the planning community.
• Optimized use of system and adherence to processes also sharing knowledge.
• Ensure Syngenta gets the best possible service from its chosen partners

Critical success factors & key challenges:

• Passion to deliver and exceed customer requirements through a continuously optimized supply plan
• Delivering in a complex matrix environment across multiple SMEs
• Sense of urgency combined with good prioritization skills.
• Agile ownership of problems through to completion
• Able to articulate clearly difficult and complex information & make tough decisions under pressure.
• Curiosity to explore alternatives, pro-active attitude, consideration of long term implications and contribute to long term design changes.
• Commitment to deliver tangible improvements for customer centricity.

Skillset required for the role.

Critical Knowledge & experience:

• Degree or equivalent in Business, Supply Chain, Logistics, Science or Engineering.
• Experience in a supply chain planning environment, preference for experience in the agribusiness sector.
• Proven project management / implementation skills
• Able to coordinate and achieve in a complex matrix environment
• Understanding of Supply Chain Planning processes and solid experience within a Supply Planning environment. BI, APO, SAP R3 within a manufacturing environment, gaining solid understanding for manufacturing processes.
• Excellent communication skills across all stakeholder levels
• Strong supplier management skills
• Strong sense of urgency combined with good prioritization skills.
• Ability to translate system figures and market insights into workable plans.
• The ability to understand and reconcile conflicting objectives
• Team player
• Capability to identify and own problems through to completion.
• Dynamically stepping into challenges and driving continuous improvement.
• Agile responsiveness, competency, flexibility, and quickness to manage uncertainty on a daily basis.

In return for your skills and knowledge Syngenta will offer:

• Competitive benefits package
• Up to 31.5 days holiday
• The opportunity to work with and learn from highly qualified and experienced employees

• A Multi-country / multi-cultural matrix environment

We embrace and encourage diversity, and this is what drives our innovation and lets us outperform the market. https://www.syngenta.com/careers/working-syngenta/diversity-and-inclusion

#LI-MT1

As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food is available for all – while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs. Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting.  From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold. Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland.