Givaudan Hiring for Production Planner Job at Cincinnati, OH Full Time

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with our customers, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,800 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with.

In the USA, we develop, market and produce a wide array of solutions from our 25 most innovative sites, based across the country. Stretch your skills, create and get inspiration from passionate colleagues. Every day, your energy, your thirst for knowledge, and your creativity 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.

Production Planner – Your future position?

As a member of the Taste and Wellbeing Operations team, reporting to the NOAM Planning Manager, you’ll have the responsibility of conducting production planning activities for intermediates and finished goods and ordering manufactured items from other NOAM affiliates. You’ll assure that production plans are created such that products can be manufactured as efficiently as possible, without interruption, and supplied on time to our customers. You’ll create a production plan according to schedule and production requirements and ensure agreed stock levels for customers are met while minimizing write-offs and optimizing inventory levels.

In this challenging role, you will: Create a production plan that is executable and follows productivity and service targets, ensuring that Inventory, Supply Chain, and Commercial Write-off levels meet or exceed company targets; Analyze production requirements in MRP (Material Requirements Planning) and production capacity to ensure on-time customer response times and product availability; Track and review customer orders for production and resale demands, including raw material resale; Build effective relationships with important partners and teams such as Customer Care, Production, Scheduling, Raw Material Planning, Logistics, Quality, Transport, and GBS Supply Planning; Resolve or escalate supply issues by working with team members. Manage exceptions; Share best practices and ideas with your team; involve teams to achieve the most efficient ways of working; Support the development of training programs, manuals, and methods of implementation to assure stable and best-practice execution of planning.

You? Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Operations Management, Business Administration or equivalent; 2-3 years experience in supply planning, supply chain, production planning Knowledge of Production Planning, Inventory Management, Capacity Analysis, Demand, Supply, and Supply Chain best practices; Experience in Manufacturing is a must; SAP or ERP experience is a must; APICS is a plus; 6 sigma / lean Yellow or Green Belt preferred.

Our Benefits: Medical/Dental/Vision plan. Life, Disability, and Accident Coverage. Givaudan’s 401k Retirement Savings Plan. Paid Parental Leave Program. Employee Assistance Program. Vacations based on length of service. And many others!

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.

At 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.