Supply Network Steering Manager ‏( Supply Planning Manager)

At Henkel, you can build on a strong legacy and leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses to reimagine and improve life every day. If you love challenging the status quo, join our community of over 47.000 pioneers around the globe. Our teams at Henkel Adhesive Technologies help to transform entire industries and provide our customers with a competitive advantage through adhesives, sealants and functional coatings. With our trusted brands, our cutting-edge technologies and our disruptive solutions, you will have countless opportunities to explore new paths and develop your skills. Grow within our future-led businesses, our diverse and vibrant culture and find a place where you simply belong. All to leave your mark for more sustainable growth.

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YOUR ROLE

• Develop and maintain global supply strategies and long-term supply plans (2-5 years) to enable profitable long-term business growth in close collaboration with our Global Production Network Heads
• Collect, validate, and challenge business strategies and related long-term demand projections from the Business Units, incl. market growth, innovation, and attrition in close collaboration with our SBU Demand Planners/Market Strategy Managers/Technology Managers and Global Production Network PMO Managers
• Collect, validate, and challenge capacity information from the Plant/Operations teams (type of work center, operating hours per KG of finished product, Operating Equipment Effectiveness) in close collaboration with our Supply Planning and Operations teams
• Convert demand projections into capacity requirements and identify constrained and underutilized work centers using our ETL tools
• Optimize interregional supply through balancing global vs regional supply
• Propose adjustments to supply strategies and identify CAPEX requirements and/or rationalization opportunities in close collaboration with our Global Production Network Heads and PMO Managers: make sure we invest/divest the right production resources
• Evaluate/validate any CAPEX requests from the Regional Operations teams as part of the annual budgeting cycle
• Create and lead Global Supply Reviews: quarterly/bi-annual cross-functional platform to review supply strategies and long-term supply strategies involving Business Units (Product/Technology Management) and Global/Regional Operations & Supply Chain
• Support Regional PMO Operations teams in network design studies and manufacturing footprint optimization projects triggered by the Global Supply Reviews
• Support Global Technology Managers in making the best use/allocation of raw materials and capacity in case of supply constraints
• Improve the process/tools for developing and maintaining supply strategies with other Supply Network Steering Managers.

YOUR SKILLS

• 5-8 years of experience in supply chain management, preferably demand/supply planning, operations or product/technology management
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in relevant field, preferably supply chain management, operations research, (industrial) engineering, or applied mathematics
• Strong communication and change management skills
• Excellent team collaboration, organization, and time management
• Fluent in English
• Experience with SAP, MS Office, APO DP/SNP
• Proficient in data analytics and related tools.

At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us! We welcome all applications across different genders, origins, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, disabilities, and generations.