About this role
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