Description
Kenvue is currently recruiting for:
**Production Planner**
This position reports into Plan Associate Manager and is based at Santa Palomba Pomezia, Italy.
**What you will do**
The Production Planner will be generally responsible for ensuring stock availability of the right products to the right locations at the right cost in the right time for his/her portfolio. The Production Planner ensures a detailed, timely and accurate communication of all relevant information to key partners in Kenvue organization building the link between demand, regional organization, and supply sites.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as the point of contact for the relevant portfolio for supply: managing supply constraints to minimize business impact by collaborating cross-functionally to ensure production plans match to demand signal
- Review Net Requirements variations on a weekly basis and connecting demand, supply, and production
- Execute inventory strategy defined by the regional team
- Track production execution daily and weekly; Scan and identify potential supply constraints (capacity, materials, etc) and support relevant partners with appropriate scenario planning to enable the right decision making
- Run scenario planning to ensure the right capacity is allocated to the portfolio based on net requirement handover and production performance, supporting rough-cut capacity plan to identify gaps in supply vs demand; aligning solutions with regional team to mitigate exceptions and provide insights for S&OP process in a clear and timely manner
- Continuously strive to support improvement activities and SC projects acting as a production planning point of contact in own portfolio of production and suppliers
- Supervise planning and scheduling master data to ensure its integrity and correctness
Qualifications
**What we are looking for**
- Master/Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management or related field
- Minimum of 3-4 years of proven experience as a Supply Chain Planner or similar role in supply/production planning and/or in another related Supply Chain field such as Procurement, Manufacturing or Logistics
- Experience in SAP R/3 and OMP is a plus, MS Office, especially strong Excel is a must
- Fluent level of written and spoken English is a must
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a positive mindset that can positively influence the organization and inspire others
- Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities
- Open to learn to work within a regional matrix organization and virtual multinational teams
- A dynamic and self-starter personality, detail-orientation, willing to focus and commit even in periods of multiple priorities
**Kenvue is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.**
Primary Location Europe/Middle East/Africa-Italy-Lazio-Pomezia (Santa Palomba)
Job Function Production Planning