About Us
Symrise is a global supplier of fragrances, flavors, food, nutrition, and cosmetic ingredients. Its clients include manufacturers of perfumes, cosmetics, food and beverages, pharmaceuticals and producers of nutritional supplements and pet food.
Its sales of € 4.7 billion in the 2023 fiscal year make Symrise a leading global provider. Headquartered in Holzminden, Germany, the Group is represented by more than 100 locations in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the United States and Latin America.
Symrise works with its clients to develop new ideas and market-ready concepts for products that form an integral part of everyday life. Economic success and corporate responsibility are inextricably linked as part of this process.
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Your Role
Responsible for effective planning of raw materials; ensuring that goods are available to ensure that service levels are maintained. Planned orders / customer forecast / lead times should be used to determine stock levels along with safety stock and rounding values. Attention should be paid to lead times, shelf life's, unique raw materials and space in the Corby warehouse. Strong working relationships with the warehouse team, planning team, purchasing team and customer service team is required
Main tasks:
1. Analyze planned orders and convert into purchase requisitions to enable ordering of raw materials – communication with purchasing and planning on any issues.
2. Challenging any minimum order sizes with purchasing that could cause stock issues
3. Highlighting unique materials to sales & C/S and where possible requesting stock underwritten
4. Checking stocks are available for production and ensuring materials are called around from customers on time.
5. Check forecasts with C/S, especially for unique materials
6. Monitoring and reviewing shelf warmers & obsolete materials, updating SAP with information and working with purchasing and other Symrise site planners where possible to sell stock back or use up elsewhere.
7. Updating and maintaining SAP product mater data, checking and monitoring safety stocks and keeping classifications updated.
8. Monitoring spread of deliveries to ensure tonnage per day.
9. EAME report to be sent on a quarterly basis
10. Process RM orders from other sites
11. BBE report – Check stock close to expiry (25%) and send what is going OOD within the next 2 months to QC if the stock is required and financially acceptable
12. Assist the business with new product implementation, by reviewing formulations along side purchasing to advise on any potential issues with RM supply
Special Tasks (if applicable) :
13. Cover defined planning functions and tasks during periods of holiday and absence
14. Sensory taste panel assisting Quality Control with product release
15. Any other reasonable duties that line manager may request.
About You
Education - Secondary School
(School)
University/College/ Professional training - Further qualifications would be supportive
Experience (No. years) - Min 2 years production planning experience
16. Professional experience
17. Experience in relevant industry
18. Experience in relevant company
Specialist requirements:
19. English fluent in spoken and written
20. Computer skills: SAP and Microsoft applications
21. Excel Intermediate
22. Food Production/FMCG knowledge
Key competencies/behaviours
23. Ability to cope under pressure
24. Communicative character / open minded / flexible
25. Self-motivated
26. Team spirit
27. High sense of customer orientation
28. Cost conscious
Our Offer
Become part of our open and transparent culture. It will give you the opportunity to flourish and to develop inspiring experiences that contribute to the health and well-being of consumers in 160 countries around the world. Putting our employees in the focus fuels our strong company growth above market rates and makes us an excellent place to develop your career.
Come join us and embark on a fascinating journey with Symrise.
If you feel that you fit the above criteria, then please apply by using our online application system. Your application will be treated confidentially.