Material Planning Executive

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with our customers, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with.
In Singapore, you’ll be at the centre of every innovation, creation and solution available to the entire Asia-pacific region. Working with our research, creation and production units, as well as our renowned perfumery school, you’ll make us a greater force for good. Every day, your passion, your creativity, and your expertise will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

**Material Planning Executive - Your future position?**

Location: Pioneer, Singapore

Reporting to: Planning Manager

As Material Planning Executive, you will be responsible for planning, scheduling and ordering of raw materials used in the manufacturing facility to achieve and maintain KPI targets (PIR/ golden rules/ best practices, SLOB, etc.) Your main responsibilities are:
**Main responsibilities**

**Strategy Design and Execution**
- Provide mid to long-term forecast to procurement
- Provide monthly forecast to local vendor to plan and improve the related inventory

**Project Management**
- Identify opportunities for improvement
- Communicate and work with relevant departments and business partners to solve issues

**Subject Matter Expertise**
- Identify upsurge and resolve shortages through efficient scheduling to guarantee an appropriate level of inventory following corporate standards
- Ensure customer (internal and external) response on time managing realistic daily plans considering capacity and raw material availability (MRP)
- Achieve and maintain service level, inventory targets
- Obsolescence control (use of SLOB tool for inventory at risk assessment)
- Resolve or escalate issues related to orders, working with production, quality, customer care and regional and global affiliates
- Work with the source-to-pay division to resolve vendor issues
- Produce daily, weekly, and monthly status reports (e.g. COOISPI schedule, OTS, past due purchase orders) and distribute
- Evaluate and validate material requirements and release PR, optimize inventory level
- Monitor MRP exception messages
- Manage supply issues: request substitution of raw materials, request QC conditional acceptance and pursue other site-based, spot buy options
- Promise orders for resale/redistribution of RM/ingredients and trading items. Monitor and follow up forecast and actual orders
- Support production transfers
- Support mass replacement of RM/ ingredients
- Support compliance management of controlled substances (Halal, HSTA) - Handle short-term enquiries from customers/ sales
- Call-off bulk/ packaging (Release PR and Auto PO or trigger delivery based on blanket PO/ VMI)
- Facilitate monthly material review board meeting

**Core Qualifications**
- Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration, Engineering, Foreign Trade or any other relevant field
- Experience in material/production planning for at least 2 years
- ERP/MRP expertise
- Strong affinity to systems and analytical tools (e.g. SAP, BI, BO)

**Our Benefits**
- Attractive package with benefits
- Excellent opportunities for progressive learning and development
- A creative team environment that will inspire you
- Comprehensive healthcare plans
- PTO and family leave
- LI-Y

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture - where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.