Planning Coordinator

We at Yara are part of a global network, collaborating to profitably and responsibly solve some of the world's key challenges - resource scarcity, food insecurity and environmental change.

About the Unit

Yara has the mission to responsibly feed the world and protect the planet, with the vision of a collaborative society, a world without hunger, and a planet respected. Yara does it by driving the transformation of food systems providing sustainable solutions to the food value chain through sustainable agriculture, crop nutrition, and clean-energy solutions. Our existing crop nutrition products and solutions help produce the food required for the growing world population. Going forward, Yara is taking a lead in the development towards sustainable agriculture, through physical products, services and digital tools, to contribute to solving the challenges which the agricultural industry is facing globally. We operate globally and have around 16000 employees.

We are currently seeking a Planning Lead, responsible for ensuring integrated and synchronized planning of materials and production capacity, effectively linking commercial demand with supply chain operations to guarantee timely, efficient, and sustainable business supply.

This position will be based at the Cartagena plant, Colombia, and will report to the Supply Manager – Andean Region.

Responsibilities

Planning:

- Lead the Material Replenishment Planning (MRP) process in each country under his/her charge.

- Focal point with Global Planning and Optimization team.

- Focal point between Commercial and Production areas.

- Ensure the right feeding of YPOD RP (and DP if apply) and guarantee the consistency of information between RP and MRP.

- Ensure the supply plan of packing material in accordance with MRP.

- Responsible for linking the end to end process from demand planning (S&OP) to supply chain operations.

- Responsible for the role of S&OP Coordinator. Coordinate the supply restriction and executive meetings and provide the right and reliable information.

- Ensure development and execution of SLA between Commercial, Supply Chain regarding to planning processes.

- Manage the MRP execution, custody inventory day levels and continuously support balance supply and demand.

- Support planning supply chain reporting, KPIs, simulations and respective trend analysis.

- Coordinate planning committees with commercial area to drive sourcing requirement alignment.

- Ensure plan allocation of materials, production and storage capacity to meet market demand.

- Liaise with sourcing department, procurement and site operations to ensure all materials and resources are in balance with demand forecasts.

- Communicate delivery / shipment plans to the relevant stakeholders.

- Support data management for generation of supply chain reports.

- Ensure compliance of Planning Rules.

Profile

Bachelor degree in industrial or production engineering, international business, finance or another relevant field with other post-graduation course.

Additional Information

As a global organization we actively strive to reflect diversity in society. Therefore, we motivate all qualified candidates from all backgrounds to submit their application. We are committed to creating a work environment that adapts to gender equality and allows us to combine professional development with the needs of a family or other personal circumstances.

Contact details

Ximena Quiroga Arévalo - Talent Acquisition Coordinator

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Yara is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe that creating a diverse and inclusive work environment is not only the right thing, but also the smart thing to do. To deliver on this, Yara has firmly anchored Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) in our business strategy and has more than 400 employees worldwide involved in D&I ambassadors networks.

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