People. Talented, resilient, and passionate. Honest, humble, and respectful. Striving to make the world a better place by formulating for our planet’s change makers, our people ignite the magic we make at our labs and constantly pursue ways to inspire our customers and move us forward in our journey toward innovation through formulation.
The people at Azelis embrace change as an invaluable opportunity to grow, learn and become ever better at what we do. We are a team united in passion, vision, and values. And we believe that we can work together to achieve everything we set our minds to.
Our industry is ready for disruption, and we are looking for enthusiastic and innovative people who are thirsty for a challenge to join us and make a difference.
Are you here for the change makers? You’ve come to the right place…
We are looking for a talented, proactive, dynamic and self-motivated
Supply Planner
Are you ready to be part of our international, dynamic Team? If yes, we would like to meet you!
Mission
The Planner is responsible for managing and developing purchasing strategies across a defined principal portfolio as well as for formalizing a stock policy according to demand forecasts, principal’s capacities and available stocks in order to maximize working capital efficiency whilst meeting principal needs and supporting “best in class” customer satisfaction. This role interacts with both commercial and operational teams, working closely with Sales teams, Product Managers and Supply chain Administrators.
Main Accountabilities
Ensure optimal stock management:
- Define procurement strategies according to market dynamics, the Azelis commercial policies and product classification and the principals’ expectations/specifications. Interact with the commercial team to get market insights and improve sales forecasting accuracy.
- Set up master planning based on stock rotation, sales, customers behavior and maintain data regularly.
- Execute replenishments where needed, maximize stock availability, minimize product cost while reducing Net Working Capital. Ensure best balance between margins maximization and DIO optimization. Give preference to internal sourcing through local entities.
- Collaborate with Supply Chain Administrators and Product Managers to remove blockers slowing down goods receipt.
- Limit obsolete stocks and rationalize impaired and expired stocks. Coordinate destocking actions.
- Join business reviews and share planning results. Follow up on market trends, principals’ organizations, product range specifications. Track principals’ supply consistency, detect opportunities, develop operational relationship.
- Provide purchase forecasts to Principals when required. Ensure purchase orders alignment with forecasts.
- Reconcile stock deviations and initiate stock counting where needed.
- Create principal accounts with Product Manager and Supply Chain Administrator. Ensure new products setup consistency.
- Master ERP functionalities and IT Systems related to own scope to work efficiently and provide best service to Customers and Principals.
Ensure conformance & contribute to sustainability:
- Ensure compliance with all QA and SHE requirements, procedures and working instructions in order to maintain high service standards and quality of Data Management.
- Translate the Group’s Sustainability Strategy into concrete job-related actions.
Contribute to continuous process optimization and excellent teamwork:
- Provide regular feedback to supply chain business process owners and ERP key users to enable operational excellence, efficiency and effectiveness.
- Develop expertise in processes and work instructions related to own scope and support development of best practices.
- Provide cover for the Planning team as required.
Experience, Skills & Education
- Proven experience in supply chain and supply planning.
- Entrepreneurial, analytical and commercial mindset and negotiation skills.
- Passionate about achieving goals/targets, high service level standards.
- Team-player, strong communication skills, good knowledge of English.
- Excellent organizational skills and self-starter, advanced user of various IT tools & ERP systems.
- Understanding of supplier, customer and market dynamics and requirements.
- Ability to adapt to new & changing requirements and a flexible approach to working with pressure.
- An international, dynamic, and collaborative working environment
- Competitive compensation and benefits package
- Hybrid working model
- Long-term career development and professional growth opportunities
Skills Required
- Proven experience in supply chain and supply planning.
- Entrepreneurial, analytical and commercial mindset with negotiation skills.
- Passionate about achieving goals/targets and maintaining high service level standards.
- Team-player with strong communication skills and good knowledge of English.
- Excellent organizational skills; self-starter and advanced user of various IT tools and ERP systems.
- Understanding of supplier, customer and market dynamics and requirements.
- Ability to adapt to changing requirements and work effectively under pressure.
What We Do
As a leading global innovation service provider in the specialty chemicals and food ingredients industry, we are committed to creating value for principals and customers whilst providing a great work environment and career opportunities. Azelis has 4,200+ employees across 65 countries worldwide. We work with around 2,800 principals to provide a diverse range of innovative products/services to 63,000+ customers. Our industry-dedicated sales teams have specialist product and application knowledge, combined with business know-how, enabling us to add value in all business relationships. We’re always looking to add new talent to our team and encourage and support the personal and professional growth of all employees. Specialties include: Life Sciences: Personal Care, Home Care & Industrial Cleaning, Pharma & Healthcare, Food & Nutrition, Animal Nutrition, Agricultural & Environmental Industrial Chemicals: CASE, Electronics, Essential Chemicals, Fine Chemicals, Advanced Materials & Additives, Chemicals, Lubricants & Metal Working Fluids, Other Applications, Textiles, Leather & Paper At Azelis, our partnerships with customers and principals remain at the heart of our activities. As a leading global innovation service provider, our entrepreneurial approach to doing business is reflected in our can-do attitude. Across our network of more than 70 application laboratories, our award-winning staff help develop formulations and provide technical guidance along the customers’ product development process. We combine a global market reach with a local footprint to offer a reliable, integrated and unique digital service to customers and attractive business opportunities to principals. Striving to create a positive impact on the environment and communities around the world, we are top-industry-rated by Sustainalytics. Azelis is a leader in sustainability. We aim to provide effective, sustainable, and reliable solutions. Our business is your business
