Supply Chain Planner
1 day ago
Vitoria-Gasteiz
Arxada is a global leader in innovative solutions that protect our world. Our groundbreaking technologies, in-depth regulatory know-how, manufacturing and process development help our customers to safeguard nutrition, health and infrastructure efficiently through chemistry and biotechnology that enhance sustainability. We offer a broad portfolio of ingredients and services for multiple end-markets that include Human Health & Nutrition, Home & Personal Care, Professional Hygiene, Paints & Coatings and Wood Protection. With customers in more than 100 countries, the company achieved sales of CHF 2 billion in 2024. Headquartered in Basel (Switzerland), Arxada employs 3,200 associates across 24 production sites and 14 R&D centers, all committed to our customers’ success. As a Supply Chain Planner supporting our EMEA operations, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring reliable product availability while balancing cost, capacity, and inventory performance. You will be at the heart of our planning ecosystem—translating demand signals into executable production plans, navigating complexity across multiple manufacturing sites, and enabling outstanding customer service. This is an opportunity to decide and drive in a dynamic environment where demand volatility, operational constraints, and competing priorities are part of the daily challenge. Working closely with cross‑functional partners across Planning, Manufacturing, Customer Service, and Supply Chain, you will help Arxada go beyond by strengthening resilience, improving planning outcomes, and building trust across the organization. Essential Job Functions • Develop and manage production plans for Timber materials across EMEA, aligning demand forecasts with capacity and operational constraints, • Review, challenge, and refine forecasts to address variability and bias, ensuring realistic and achievable plans, • Replenish European warehouses while balancing service levels, inventory targets, and storage capacity, • Coordinate planning activities across multiple manufacturing sites, including South Africa, within an integrated supply network, • Actively participate in SIOP, SOE, and cross‑functional planning forums to support aligned decision‑making, • Proactively identify supply risks, shortages, and imbalances, adjusting plans to mitigate service or inventory impacts, • Serve as a key planning contact for Customer Service and business stakeholders, managing priorities and escalations with clarity and confidence Qualifications & Experience • 2–5 years of experience in Supply Chain, Production Planning, or Scheduling, ideally within a manufacturing or multi‑site environment, • Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to turn data into clear, actionable insights, • Advanced Excel and data analysis capabilities; experience with BI or planning tools is an advantage, • Confident communicator with the ability to collaborate across functions and levels in a global organization, • Resilience and composure under pressure, with a structured approach to managing competing priorities, • Experience in scenario planning, risk assessment, and continuous improvement within planning or operations Arxada has world class offering in two distinct areas: Microbial Control Solutions (MCS) focuses on threats posed by microorganisms to people and planet through five distinct business lines including Professional Hygiene, Home & Personal Care, Wood Protection, Paints & Coatings and Material Protection. Nutrition, Care & Environmental (NCE), meanwhile, provides materials used to manufacture composites for electronics, aerospace and other markets, as well as vitamins and nutritional ingredients, chemicals and performance intermediates, and raw materials for a wide range of high-performance applications. Arxada is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a qualified individual with disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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