RM / PM Planner - Local

About AkzoNobel

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today – while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

For more information please visit www.akzonobel.com

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Job Purpose

• Ensure timely availability of JIT raw materials and packaging materials to support the production plan.
• Maintain strong coordination with procurement and suppliers to enhance relationships and supplier performance.
• Understand and manage trade-offs between service levels, inventory, and costs.
• Monitor current and future capacity plans and constraints across manufacturing and distribution.
• Manage all material planning activities and resolve exceptions in line with MRP parameters and supplier agreements.
• Ensure accuracy of master data and proper housekeeping of transactional data.
• Maintain effective communication and integration with planning teams, manufacturing, logistics, customer care, and other stakeholders.
• Lead MDI and gatekeeping meetings, providing relevant KPIs to track performance.
• Escalate material availability issues to procurement as per defined guidelines.
• Support projects and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance planning efficiency, inventory performance, and service levels across supply points.
  
  

Key Accountabilities

• Review/ update material planning and manage material availability: planning of JIT raw & packaging materials, ensuring that the production plan can be executed.
• Creation of purchase orders and inform production planning on timelines.
• Manage MRP exception messages.
• Drive gate keeping meetings with the other departments and support with providing relevant KPI’s to measure performance.
• Reviewing with Supplier flexibility to support Material Planning with respect to supplier capacity and 2nd tier material availability.
• Link to Procurement to improve Supplier Performance and escalate in case of structural material availability issues (& inform stakeholders).
• Balance service level (OTIF) and inventory targets (OWC) of raw (JIT) and pack materials, whilst understanding cost impacts on manufacturing.
• Manage reduction and prevention of slow and obsolete stock (pack). Ensure rework and scrapping at the site/primary DC.
• Inputs to inventory strategy including safety stock settings on pack materials for existing, new and phase-out products.
• Ensure master data correctness & proper housekeeping of transactional data.
• Support projects and process improvement to enhance performance and efficiency of the required material planning activities.
  
  

Experience

• Prior experience in supply planning or material planning roles.
• Hands-on experience with SAP and BI tools.
  
  

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Economics, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, or a related field
  
  

At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

Requisition ID: 49962