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Nestle Subcontracting Planner in North York, Canada
Position Snapshot
Business areas: Nestlé Canada
Job title: Subcontracting Planner
Location: North York, ON located at 25 Sheppard Ave W, North York, ON M2N 6S8
A little bit about us
Nestlé is the world’s largest food and beverage company. We have over 2000 brands ranging from global icons to local favorites, and are present in 190 countries worldwide. In Canada, excelling means sharing our passion for our purpose of enhancing quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. It also means living up to our exemplary values which are rooted in respect for ourselves, others, diversity and the future. We will support your personal growth with a people-focused culture and a flexible and diverse working environment. Join our team to support our purpose of enhancing quality of life and contributing to a healthier future.
Position Summary
We are looking for a Subcontracting Planner based at our North York office reporting into the Subcontracting Team Lead. This role will be responsible to build production plans respecting the agreed level of available capacity at copackers to ensure that finished and semi-finished goods are available with high freshness, at the right stock location to meet customer demand whilst minimizing cost. Also ensuring availability of Raw and Packaging materials to fulfil the requirements of the production plans within the agreed cost boundaries.
A day in the life:
As a Subcontracting Planner, you will establish an 18 month production plan for the subcontracting factories (co-packers) within their responsibilities. You will be working on creating an optimized replenishment plan for raw and packaging materials over an 18 month horizon that ensures supply of material to production whilst ensuring that the working capital targets for raw and packaging materials are met.
You will also:
Creating capacity / feasibility scenario's for the 3 years MBS plans
Creates a feasible production plan that respects capacity defined (available capacity)
Identifies possible opportunities and improvements in collaboration with the co-packers within the 18 month horizon
Monitor supply signals through the use of MRP purchase requisitions while ensuring delivery dates, lead times and required quantities are correct
Creating purchase orders and ensuring their fulfilment by the supplier
Manage directly with the defined supplier the delivery of materials: this includes creating, sending, confirming, receiving, investigating errors and discrepancies on blocked or parked invoice lines and handling all exceptions / issues in those operations, including claims management
Define the stock policy and management approach to be applied to each SKU within their portfolio
Support Ideal 2 Launch Projects including new product development, packaging transition, source change and cost improvement ideas.
What will make you successful?
As the successful candidate, you will play a key role in the production planning of our products so you will need to be passionate, tenacious, results focused and really enjoy working in a highly energetic and exciting environment. You will also require:
Bachelor’s Degree (Business, engineering, Supply Chain or a related field) or the equivalent combination of education.
2 years or more of experience in Supply Chain or Technical & Production (especially in Factory and/or Co-Manufacturing logistics, Materials Handling or Production Scheduling)
Demonstrated strong interpersonal, communication and organizational skills; Able to communicate information clearly and concisely
Proven problem solving, and administrative skills; attention to detail
Ability to prioritize workload effectively
We have a friendly, supportive team with a coaching and mentoring environment. There are real opportunities for future development and progression – this really could be a move towards the exciting Supply Chain career you’ve always wanted.
What you need to know
What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestle include Excellent training and development programs as well as opportunities to grow within the company.
We will be considering applicants as they apply, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.
Nestlé is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. If you are selected to participate in the recruitment process, please inform Human Resources of any accommodations you may require. Nestlé will work with you in an effort to ensure that you are able to fully participate in the process.
We are Nestlé, the largest food and beverage company. We are 308,000 employees strong driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. Our values are rooted in respect: respect for ourselves, respect for others, respect for diversity and respect for our future. With more than CHF 91.4 billion sales in 2018, we have an expansive presence with 413 factories in more than 85 countries. We believe our people are our most important asset, so we'll offer you a dynamic inclusive international working environment with many opportunities across different businesses, functions and geographies, working with diverse teams and cultures. Want to learn more? Visit us at www.nestle.com.