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Your contribution:
1. Lead capacity and inventory planning based on forecast demand
2. Long-, mid-, and short-term Production planning (rough cut planning, weekly planning)
3. Assurance of targeted inventory level
4. Significant impact on improvements along supply chain
5. Initiate and drive improvement & change processes in logistics area i.e. footprint project, direct shipping approaches, late differentiation, etc.
Key responsibilities:
6. Drive monthly rolling Production and Inventory planning based on forecast demand
7. Lead production planning for all plants on a yearly/monthly/ weekly basis
8. Create Days On Hand reports to assure quality of planning
9. Drive ramp up activities for new customers/brands
10. Prepare, decide and transfer products/brands from one plant to another
11. Provide analyses and recommendations to improve quality of inventory (maximize service, minimize backorder, minimize age risks)
12. Analyze, recommend and implement new procedures and sequences to improve processes along the supply chain
13. Analyze costs, efficiency of already implemented footprint for a defined product mix in order to optimize for batteries and components
14. Drive and support new projects/launches in SCOPS (e.g. JV’s, transitions, expansions)
15. Manage Supply Planning budget procedure
16. Intensive collaboration within OPS, SC and Sales
17. Manage IBT IN and IBT OUT
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
18. Bachelor’s Degree with focus in Logistics, Business Administration or Engineering
19. Solid experience in Supply Chain Management
20. Profound material management, handling and transportation knowledge
21. Technical understanding of production processes
22. Strong change and continuous improvement mentality
23. Results-oriented
24. Strategic thinking and simultaneously pragmatic and solution oriented
25. Strongly financial and cost oriented
26. Business fluent in English
27. Strong skills in SAP SD, PP, MM & Business Warehouse
28. Strong in MS Office
29. Strong Leadership skills
Benefits:
As a technology leader with strong brand (i.e. VARTA and OPTIMA), Clarios notably lives on the creativity, capability and satisfaction of its employees. Therefore, we offer people with drive and power many good reasons to join us:
30. Exciting professional tasks and challenges in a diverse international environment with strong commitment to integrity, values, social engagement, and sustainability .
31. Arrange your working hours and breaks flexible via our flexible and trust-based working hours model and combine your professional and private life even better according to our mobile work policy and company kindergarten .
32. A competitive remuneration package, including additional payments such as holiday, Christmas as well as company pension scheme.
33. Your well-being is very important to us: Take advantage of our preventive health care offers such as fitness center, physiotherapist, modern office environment, healthy canteen, team and company events or hobby clubs .
34. Stay fit whilst at the same time positively contributing to our environment: Lease your company bike .
35. Our well-advanced onboarding process and buddy program supports you to quickly grow into the position and team. By using the offering in our Internal Learning Academy, LinkedIn Learning and EMEA Mentoring Program you will be able to further grow professionally and personally.
36. Last, but not least we support you in relocating and finding an apartment in your work location, if applicable and depending on individual factors.
About Clarios:
Clarios is the global leader in advanced, low-voltage battery technologies for mobility. We power progress through ever-smarter solutions for virtually every kind of vehicle. With 16,000 employees in over 140 countries, we bring deep expertise to our Aftermarket and OEM partners, and reliability, safety and comfort to everyday lives. We answer to the planet with a rigorous ESG focus – advancing best-in-class sustainability practices and advocating for them across our industry. We recover, recycle and reuse up to 99% of our battery materials. Clarios is a Brookfield portfolio company.