Raw Material Senior Planner

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness and humility, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. 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. Dive into varied, flexible, and stimulating environments. Meet empowered professionals to partner with, befriend, and stretch your skills alongside. Every day, your energy, your creativity, and your determination 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.Raw Material Senior Planner - Budapest (Hungary) - Your future position?Overall mission:Ensure raw material and packaging material availability in the right quantity, quality and time. You will be responsible for monitoring of items in the SLOB category and reducing discards in every category, managing master data, escalating if a change is risking RM availability or inventory target. Partner with the relevant GBS functions.You will be based in Budapest, and the Head of Supply will receive your report. You will:Lead diverse projects and guide projects from a planning perspectiveDetailed understanding of all processes, and activities in the area of raw materials planningUse/create Indicators for performance monitoringPerform daily business with the relevant MRP controllers (including MRP management, complete order tracking process, constraint and exception management)Resolve all issues within their your responsibilities. If the issue cannot be resolved, take the necessary steps to obtain support or escalates to resolve the issueEnsure a constant flow of information between the planning teams, including those across locations. This flow should also extend to the interfaces with other departments. These include PUR, QC, QM&I, DIS, OTC, and RDM. Additionally, it should extend to external parties, like freight forwarders, if necessaryAnalyze and optimize inventory levels and material master data (parameters) in your responsibilities in cooperation with regional procurement planning and the demand-planning team. Identify slow/non-movers or other vulnerable materials and take the necessary measures to avoid or minimize write-offs/discards. Use, for example, the SAP SLOB tool to track the measuresFollow relevant standard guidelines (e.g., STO policy, global best practices - site and supply planning, SOPs and OPLs, ISO) that are published and communicated. Addresses areas rules/procedures are lacking and assists with resolution or implementation.Help achieve departmental goals and IndicatorsSupport continuous improvement processes within the department, but also across interfaces, along the value stream to improve overall performance in safety, quality, service, and costs. The improvement process follows the LEAN philosophyAccomplish, coordinates, and track supplier complaints in your responsibilities according to defined rulesCoordinate all actions related to outgoing STOs for relevant MRP contractsTake capacity constraints (e.g., load balancing of goods receipts) into account in daily businessComplete relevant WF items and the setup or adjustment of parameters in MM02 (e.g., new product localization processes)Help with similar planning activitiesRepresent the planning team's responsibilities in special meetings or projectsFirst contact for the raw material planners with regard to processes, questions, trainingYou:College / University Degree3+ years of planning and inventory management experienceSAP knowledgeFluency in English, German or Dutch are advantageousOur benefits for you:Flexible Working Arrangements (1-2 days office days per week)Private Health InsuranceMonthly cafeteria planEmployee shop discountTravel reimbursement when commuting from out of Budapest urban areaAccess to exclusive perfumes and other employee discountsRecognition and referral programsCareer development opportunities in our multinational environmentTeam buildings and company eventsLearning programs to develop your soft and hard skillsFree coffee and tea in our equipped kitchenAt 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.