Company Information
Mars Wrigley Confectionery is the world’s leading manufacturer of chocolate, chewing gum, mints, and fruity confections.
Function Description
The Material Planner is responsible for the operational Purchase to Pay process ensuring the availability of a defined raw material category for all European factories or co packers while controlling the inventory value of those products preventing obsolescence and conserve cash.
They will achieve this by managing the supply chain parameter set based on segmentation characteristics to derive the appropriate replenishment strategy and inventory policy for their portfolio both in system or/and in collaboration with suppliers and commercial; They will collaborate with a broad range of stakeholders to drive improvements and solve exceptions e.g., with Commercial, SQA, Suppliers, Warehouses, Schedulers, Logistics, Q&FS, Finance and others.
Reviewing MRP results and managing exceptions in Kinaxis and SAP. Accountability for managing supply disruption driven by internal or external source and propose/execute alternative solutions though crisis management and scenario planning (such as the purchase to an alternative supplier or alternative recipes).
What will be your key responsibilities:
- Owns, sets and manages replenishment strategy and associated system parameters for each material within the category across all nodes in the network (10 factories in EU) in line with the inventory policy for short, mid and long-term purchasing. Recommend and align changes with internal and
- external stakeholders.
- Reviews SAP and Kinaxis MRP projection and creates Purchase Orders balancing cash and service and follows through for robust supply and 100% order confirmation within planning horizon.
- Accountable for housekeeping in both planning systems to ensure high data quality in material planning.
- Receives and manages invoice exceptions with relevant parties.
- Manages material shortages / supply crisis as escalation owner and facilitates crisis team meetings.
- Drive incident tracking and RCA for critical issues together with stakeholders.
- Assures efficient connection with stakeholders via signature processes like IMOS, COMOS and SMOS.
- Supporting the change in our supplier landscape, processes and strategies to drive mid/long term improvements in line with our business strategy.
- Manages demurrage and obsolescence mitigation for their category avoiding NQC and initiating disposal / returns.
- Manages execution of compensation activities (material replacement etc.) by the suppliers.
- Evaluates supplier performance and provides relevant information during commercial supplier reviews or to management teams.
- Maintains and builds strong relationships with external suppliers and internal stakeholders.
- Reading SCMR and SCGM outputs and feeding or participating in the MOS structure driving fact-based value adding conversations.
- Collaborates with Schedulers, Execution Planners to solve material constraints and with the Supply Network Planner/Commercial, evaluates alternate strategies to solve non capacity material issues.
Profile
- A completed BSc or MSc degree and preferably have experience in a supply chain environment.
- You have a understanding of End-to-End planning processes.
- You have experience with maintaining and optimizing internal and external relationships/stakeholdermanagement.
- You have analytical skills, and you are excellent at working with automated systems (such as SAP and PowerBi). Experience with an Advanced Planning Systems (such as Kinaxis) would be an advantage.
- You speak English fluently. An additional EU languages (such as French, German or Polish) would be an advantage.
Offer
- A temporary position for 36 hours a week via Nutri-akt until 31-12-2025.
- Hybrid working (2 days on site).
- Working in a multicultural environment.
