Supply Planner

**Date**:May 14, 2025

**Location**: Barcelona, ES

**Company**:AkzoNobel

**About AkzoNobel**

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands - including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon - is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today - while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

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**Supply Planner**

The main objective for this person will be:

- Plan production, purchase and distribution of Finished Goods with a high level of understanding the trade-offs between service, inventory and costs.
- The role requires a comprehensive understanding of existing and future capacity plans/constraints (RCCP) at the manufacturing plant and distribution network, and knowledge of how production capacity can be flexed to meet demand.
- Manage exceptions and other planning activities to ensure SEMI/FINI availability for the master production plan in line with MRP parameters and supplier contracts.
- Ensure the right network settings (e.g. production/distribution throughout times) and replenishment models are correctly applied in the planning system.
- Ensure master data correctness & proper housekeeping of transactional data.
- Ensure good communication and integration with other planning teams, manufacturing (scheduling), logistics, customer care and other stakeholders. Drive MDI meeting & gate keeping meetings with other departments and support with providing relevant KPI’s to measure performance.
- Support projects and process improvement to enhance performance and efficiency of the required planning activities (SLOBs, Inventories and Service across scope site/ supply points).

**About the Role**:

- Manage the supply and replenishments across the whole supply network & review mid term and long term outlook of the supply plan against resources and warehouse capacities.
- Ensure consolidation of independent, dependent and distribution demand at SKU level.
- Requirements inventory setting and DRP process management. Resolve exceptions in accordance with IBP rules.
- Distribution plan full horizon/ weekly/ daily release for Stock Transfer Orders / ICDs depending on the flows.
- Inventory plan volume and value projection and warehouse/ logistics capacity planning.
- Reviews logistics schedule adherence and drive improvement including optimization of truck load management.
- Manage demand exceptions with Demand managers/planner, logistics and Supply Planning Manager.
- Drive gate keeping meetings with the other departments and support with providing relevant KPI’s to measure performance.
- Provide impact analysis when needed to show the impact of decisions or scenarios to the plan. Support on reporting where necessary.
- Balance service level (OTIF) and inventory targets (OWC) at the primary and/or secondary DC’s, while understanding cost impacts on manufacturing.
- Manage reduction and prevention of slow and obsolete stock. Ensure rework and scrapping at the primary and/or secondary DC’s.
- Monitor FINI distributed to DCs as contact point to resolve over/under stock position. Execute and support allocation of constraint supply to demand/ create needed visibility through network.
- Inputs to inventory strategy on existing, new and phase-out products.
- Ensure master data correctness & proper housekeeping of transactional data.
- Support projects and process improvement to enhance performance and efficiency of the required planning activities.

**About You**:

- University Education (e.g. Engineering, Business Administration, Economics, Supply Chain Management, Logistics or other relevant discipline) with Degree or equivalent qualification.
- At least 1-year experience in Supply Planning in FMCG, Paint/Coating or Retail.
- Experience on Supply Planning in SAP and BI.
- Fluent and able to work in English. Understanding and sensitivity to different cultural behaviours.

**What we offer**:

- Join a growing multinational company.
- Stable project.
- Professional and personal development in a dynamic environment.
- Hybrid teleworking modality.
- Dining room benefits.
- Flexible remuneration.
- Access to training platform.
- Free parking and metro 5 minutes walking.
- Paddle/tennis and football court free to use on site.

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At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral p