Supply Planning Manager - Southern Cone & LAN

Department:  Operations
Date:  Sep 17, 2024

Job Title: Supply Planning Manager - Southern Cone & LAN

Place of Work: Campinas, SP

Work Model: Hybrid

 

About FMC

FMC is an agricultural sciences company that advances farming through innovative and sustainable crop protection solutions. From our industry-leading discovery pipeline to novel biological and precision technologies, we are passionate about the power of science to solve agriculture’s biggest challenges.

We employ approximately 6,400 employees at more than 100 sites across North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Asia Pacific.

Our six core values: Customer-Centricity, Sustainability, Respect for People, Safety, Integrity, and Agility define who we are and how we do business.

We are looking for people to join us in creating, developing, and improving our products, our processes, and our markets. If you are ready to make a difference every day, FMC is ready to talk to you.

 

Main responsibilities:

  • Co-ordinate the shorth and long term planning process working closely to Demand, Sales, Marketing, Finance and Operations ensuring the proper and smooth execution of the company plans;
  • Responsible for the company inventory levels of finish goods and active ingredients. Establish and manage inventory targets ensuring the best balance between inventory levels, losses due to shelf-life expiration, supply constraints and service levels;
  • Manage the execution of the Southern Cone and LAN planning activities including supply planning, master scheduling, distribution requirement planning;
  • Responsible for the distribution plan of finish goods from the factories to the warehouses  according to the sales demand requirements;
  • Co-ordinate the planning and implementation of innovation projects (definition of stock policy, timings, etc.) aligned with Marketing, Regulatory and Operations guarantying that product is available to be launched as planned;
  • Generate medium/long term production requirements for operations capacity studies (distribution network, regional procurement, factory expansion, etc.) communicating and addressing constraints in advance. Collaborate in manufacturing strategy and sourcing studies;
  • Lead and manage supply chain improvement projects (stock reduction program, portfolio optimization, etc.);
  • Develop key supply chain planning KPIs;
  • Suggest and implement solutions for process improvements. Identify process bottleneck and implement solutions in a timely manner;
  • Train, develop and evaluate your team, providing constructive feedback;
  • Develop strong links with Manufacturing, Procurement, Distribution & CS areas;
  • Guardian of the planning tools optimizing performance and usage among the planners.  Perform the administration of part of the company products master data (SAP and other Tools);

 

Basic Qualifications

  • Graduation: Engineering/ Business Administration
  • Post-Graduation: Supply Chain /Logistic/ Business Management
  • Experience in Agrobusiness, Chemicals, Consumers Goods or Pharmaceutical companies.
  • Solid experience in supply planning and master scheduling with more than 5 years working as manager in these areas.
  • Solid experience of SAP PD4/HANA
  • Fluent Portuguese, English and Spanish