Global Supply Chain Planner

At Corbion, we exist to champion preservation in all its forms, preserving food and food production, health, and our planet.

We develop and produce sustainable ingredients for a variety of applications including food, nutrition, medical devices, parma, bioplastics. We have production sites in The Netherlands, the US, Thailand, Brazil and Spain.

Within Corbion supply planning is the cornerstone of the end-to-end supply chain planning process. While there are specialized planners working in each functional area across the supply chain – including demand planners, supply schedulers, material planners – it’s the responsibility of the supply planner to bring all these plans together and ensure that the company’s products will be available to meet the demand from the market.

Role Overview

Your responsibility as Supply planner is to determine how to fulfill the demand for our products and meet or exceed our various business and operational goals, such as delivering products on time to customers, reducing manufacturing costs, and meeting revenue and profitability targets. Our Supply planning team creates and executes a supply plan to optimize inventory levels, production schedules and supplier relationships. The goal is to streamline the supply planning and better aligning with demand, to optimize our working capital and execute inventory decisions that produce the most value.

Each Global Supply planner works hand in hand with one or more local plant(s) and it’s supply chain team. The Global Supply planner sets the general direction of production and dynamically sets target stock levels to meet future demand whereas the local supply chain teams (scheduling and material planning) manage the short horizon by predicting the effects of changes in production, interruptions, machine breakdowns, scraps and other factors.

Key Responsibilities

• Inventory Management: Maintaining optimal inventory levels to balance the cost of carrying inventory with service level goals.
• Supply Planning: Developing and executing supply plans that ensure product availability across the global network considering optimization of the manufacturing cost and maximizing the output of the production facilities. Focus for this team is on the 2-24month horizon.
• Supplier Relationship Management: Building and maintaining strong relationships with external manufacturers (tollers) to secure the best terms and ensure supply reliability.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Working closely with the local supply chain and operations teams in the plants, finance, and product managers to align supply chain strategies with business objectives. Partner with the end-to-end project managers, demand planners and logistics teams as the direct colleagues within the global supply chain team.
• Continuous Improvement: Identifying and implementing process improvements, system enhancements and suggest optimizations in value stream design to increase efficiency and reduce costs in the supply chain. Ensure planning parameters, as safety stock settings and lead times, are up to date.
• Risk Management: Proactively identifying and mitigating risks that could disrupt the supply chain. In times of supply disruptions, step up to lead the relevant stakeholders through the crisis. Model “What-if” scenarios and propose optimized solutions bases on variable demand and supply conditions.
• Analytics and Reporting: Utilizing supply chain data to enable creation of reports and analytics that support decision-making and performance tracking. Track performance by monitoring KPIs and take action to course correct if needed.

About you

Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, business administration or a related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a demand planning, supply chain management or supply chain analytical role, preferably in multinational corporations or global organizations.
• Experience working with advanced supply chain planning software and tools (OMP, SAP).
• Ambitious and eager to develop and learn.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and make informed decisions.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to develop effective collaborations across different levels of the organization.
• Capability to positively impact the global network and have the ability to deliver accuracy in the critical details of a solid supply plan.
• Financial acumen to optimize costs, enhance profitability and drive for informed decisions.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, with a strong sense of urgency and attention to detail.
• Fluent in English
• Nice-to-haves:
  • Certifications like APICS (CSCP, CDPP)
  • Understanding Business to Business Ingredients market and its customers, as well as complex supply chain structures, preferably in the (bio)chemical industry
  • Supply Chain financials

What we offer

• Workweek of 40 hours, competitive salary & benefits package, competitive pension scheme, holiday allowance of 8%, a 13th month payment in December, bonus scheme, flexible working hours and the ability to work from home for 3 days per week.
• Unique company culture: A multinational of Dutch heritage.
• A very dynamic, high impact working environment with unique personal development potential.
• Great team of professional, global presence, innovative and highly engaged people.
• Since this role has wide exposure within the Global Supply Chain, you will have excellent career opportunities.
• A company that takes sustainability very serious and champions preservation in all its forms, finding new ways of operating in a changing environment (see our Sustainability Brochure and in our SDG Impact Assessment 'Measuring What Matters').

If you have excellent analytical skills to interpret complex data and make informed decisions, are strong in building relationships, enjoy solving problems in a proactive manner to manage the dynamic nature of our supply chain then you are the one we are looking for!

About Corbion

Corbion is the global market leader in lactic acid and its derivatives, and a leading supplier of emulsifiers, functional enzyme blends, minerals, vitamins, and algae ingredients. We use our unique expertise in fermentation and other processes to deliver sustainable solutions for the preservation of food and food production, health, and our planet. For over 100 years, we have been uncompromising in our commitment to safety, quality, innovation and performance. Drawing on our deep application and product knowledge, we work side-by-side with customers to make our cutting-edge technologies work for them. Our solutions help differentiate products in markets such as food, home & personal care, animal nutrition, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and bioplastics. In 2023, Corbion generated annual sales of €1,443.8 million and had a workforce of 2,727 FTE. Corbion is listed on Euronext Amsterdam. For more information: www.corbion.com

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