Production Planner
Are you driven by making supply chains run smoothly while creating real impact? Do you enjoy solving complex planning challenges and collaborating across teams? Join us and shape the future of planning at Essity.
About the Role
As a Production Planner, you will play a key role in balancing demand and capacity across short-, mid-, and long‑term planning horizons. You will ensure the availability of finished goods and mother reels, support decision‑making with accurate scenario planning, and collaborate closely with our Manufacturing and Supply teams to secure high service levels. This role is part of our Supply Planning Consumer Tissue organization and will work in a hybrid model based in Barcelona.
What You Will Do
Short-Term Planning: Create and revise detailed daily production schedules, ensuring feasibility and alignment with manufacturing teams.
Mid-Term Planning: Develop weekly production plans for the 3–16 week horizon, lead mid-term review meetings, and evaluate capacity constraints and market dynamics.
Long-Term Planning: Prepare monthly 16‑month planning scenarios and support S&OP reviews with insights on risks, capacity, and prioritization needs.
Performance Management: Drive continuous improvement using PDCA, monitoring key KPIs such as Service Level, Stock Levels, Routing Accuracy, and Demand Coverage.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Act as a key interface between planning, market teams, and manufacturing sites to anticipate shortages and propose solutions.
Scenario Modelling: Deliver planning simulations for new products, volume changes, stock builds, and exceptions to standard models.
Master Data & Process Excellence: Maintain accurate planning master data and contribute to improving PLEx tools, processes, and ways of working.
Who You Are
Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, or a related field.
Minimum 4 years of experience in production planning, materials planning, forecasting, or inventory management, ideally in an industrial plant environment.
Proficiency in SAP and Excel, with the ability to work with planning tools and data‑driven decision-making.
Strong analytical mindset, ownership, communication skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
Proficiency in English; additional languages are a plus.
What We Can Offer You
Our purpose, Breaking Barriers to Well-being, provides meaning to everything we do. Join us to improve well-being for people and drive positive change for society and the environment. At Essity, you'll feel valued, empowered to grow, and challenged to achieve business results in a collaborative and open atmosphere.
Innovate for Good | Excel Together | Be You with Us
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What We Do
Essity - a globally leading hygiene and health company, breaking barriers to well-being. Our expertise in hygiene and health began with the acquisition of the Swedish company Mölnlycke in 1975, through which our roots stretch back to 1849. Today, our sustainable innovations from globally trusted brands, designed for everybody and every body, care for the well-being of 1 billion people in 150 countries every day.
Working at Essity is not just a career but a chance to make the world healthier, safer, and more hygienic. Our barrier breakers innovate for good and contribute to shaping a sustainable future. At Essity, every career is as unique as the individual. We empower employees to excel together and reach their full potential in a winning culture motivated by a powerful purpose. We provide a sustainable work-life based on flexibility for both employees and employers. At Essity, we are committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in everything we do. It is the key to our success in creating an inclusive, collaborative, and caring company culture where you can be you with us. Our purpose of Breaking Barriers to Well-being, is to enable customers and consumers to lead fuller lives at all stages of life.
Our leading global brands include TENA, Tork, Actimove, JOBST, Knix, Leukoplast, Libero, Libresse, Lotus, Modibodi, Nosotras, Saba, Tempo, TOM Organic, Vinda and Zewa. Essity has about 36,000 employees. Net sales in 2022 amounted to approximately SEK 156bn (EUR 15bn). The company’s headquarters is located in Stockholm, Sweden, and Essity is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. If you want to join a company where dedication to people is powered by innovation, welcome to Essity
