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About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Strategic Planner to join our team at Azelis. As a key member of our supply chain team, you will be responsible for managing and developing purchasing strategies across a defined principal portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement optimal stock management strategies to maximize network capital and costs of goods efficiency.
• Manage demand planning for a defined principal portfolio, ensuring accurate forecasts and alignment with commercial and operational teams.
• Collaborate with commercial assistants and supply chain administrators to ensure seamless communication and execution of procurement strategies.
• Set up and maintain master planning data in ERP systems, ensuring accuracy and efficiency.
• Define and review principals' expectations and specifications through interaction with product managers.
• Provide purchase forecasts to suppliers and ensure purchase orders align with forecasts.
• Optimize stock rotation, limitation of impairment, and rationalization of logistics expenses.
• Ensure best balance between margins maximization and DIO optimization.
• Analyze sales and customer behavior, interacting with commercial assistants and product managers.
• Generate and send replenishment reviews to supply chain administrators, collaborating to ensure goods receipt.
• Analyze stock availability based on upstream and downstream information, opening SO and PO in ERP.
• Support master planning process within AX to maximize stock availability, minimize lead times, and reduce net working capital.
• Provide stock replenishment order reviews to the back office team.
• Liaise with commercial assistants to ensure accuracy of sales forecasting.
• Assist supply chain administrators, warehouse, and logistics functions for stock variance/discrepancies investigation, explanation, and corrective actions.
• Participate in stock count and reconciliation procedures with the finance team.
• Ensure new principal and product setup, identifying sample stock requirements.
• Draw up yearly budget and KPIs, assessing results and taking corrective actions.
• Master business-related IT tools (AX, BI, CRM).
• Ensure conformity and contribute to sustainability.
• Ensure compliance with QA and SHE requirements, procedures, and working instructions.
• Translate the Group's Sustainability Strategy into concrete job-related action items.
• Contribute to continuous process optimization and excellent teamwork.
• Join business reviews and share planning dashboard.
• Ensure information flow to other team-members within the supply chain team.
• Follow market trends, principal/ supplier organizations, product range specifications.
• Follow principal supply behavior, detecting opportunities and developing operational relationships.
• Constantly look for possible savings (financial, time, resources).

KPIs

• Forecast accuracy of planned goods.
• DIO per Department and per Supplier.
• Coverage rate on Runner products.
• Obsolete stock value.
• Impairment value.
• Exactness of replenishment reviews.
• Relevance of purchase forecasts.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with at least 3 years of experience.
• Commercial and dynamic mindset.
• Passionate about achieving goals/targets.
• High service level standards.
• Understanding of market dynamics and requirements.
• Strong relationship building and negotiation skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Team player with ability to work independently.
• Ability to adapt to new and changing requirements.
• Strong communication skills.
• Very good IT skills (CRM, AX Dynamics, Excel).
• Confidence in decision making.
• Assertive when dealing with principals and internal stakeholders.