Strategic Planner

Job Purpose

The Strategic Planner responsible for long term planning horizon activities, creating a connection between the sources of demand in long term and the execution of the service scopes. The Strategic planner works alongside business development and project management to identify the demand and propose a feasible long term supply plan to that. This plan will support the business decisions during the Sales and Operations Planning Process,  and will in time be handed over to the other planning teams.

Job Description

• Support decision making process
• Anticipate future events
• Identify potential risks
• Understand future capacity requirements
• Understand future materials' requirements
• Understand future required inventory levels
• Properly schedule utilization of resources to ensure utilization at the right moment
• Be able inform about situation of the resources
• Be able to promise leaner mead times and meet the promised dates
• Be able to react efficiently to changes
• Manage Demand Plan
• Manage Master Scheduling / Supply Plan
• Manage Sales and Operations Planning Process

You are meant for this job if:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, preferably in Planning related areas
• 2 years or more of experience in Planning related roles
• Desirable APICS CPIM or CSCP certification
• Customer service focused with commitment and sense of urgency to ensure customer success

Skills

• Content presentation
• Written and verbal communication
• Stakeholders’ relationship management (Business Development / Project Management)
• Commercial / product knowledge
• Portfolio Schedules / Project Schedules / Master Production Schedule
• Long Term Planning / Sales and Operations Planning
• Demand Management / Forecasting
• Rough-Cut Capacity Planning
• Primavera P6
• SAP PS / MM
• Process / Governance Design and Maintenance
• QHSE Fundamentals
• Lean Thinking / Lean Manufacturing Fundamentals
• Local Planning / Business organization knowledge
• Global Planning / Business Organization knowledge