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Henkel holds leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses: Our portfolio includes well-known hair care products, laundry detergents, fabric softeners as well as adhesives, sealants, and functional coatings.
Supply Planning Specialist
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Supply Planning Specialist
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About this Position
As a network supply planning specialist, you will play a pivotal role in optimizing our supply chain operations. Leveraging your expertise in analytics, supply dynamics, and planning systems, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to proactively anticipate and address customer demands. This role is crucial for shaping and executing a unified supply strategy, aimed at delivering the highest level of customer service while minimizing operational costs.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and detail-oriented supply chain professional with a strong analytical and financial acumen and excellent communication skills who can work independently to identify issues and propose solutions while also fostering effective collaboration with other functional groups. In this role, you will take ownership or provide essential support for global cross-team coordination and project management activities.
What you´ll do
- • Managing planning parameters: Ensure the accuracy of planning parameters and alignment with global business objectives, thus streamlining the supply network, improving operational efficiency, reducing cost, mitigating risks to ultimately increase customer satisfaction.
- • Financial Acumen: Understands cost drivers, inventory valuation, and financial trade-offs in supply planning decisions. Able to analyze the financial impact of supply strategies, including cost-to-serve, working capital implications, and profitability optimization.
- • Data Maintenance: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to uphold master data governance standards, preserving the integrity and accuracy of critical master data.
- • Metrics Analysis and Reporting: Analyze key metrics to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement; develop and execute action plans, reporting findings/metrics to the leadership team and relevant stakeholders.
- • Project Management: Lead project independently, scoping and creating project plans, process development, execution coordination, and effective communication with senior management regarding project status, risks, and process/project changes.
- • End-to-End Supply Chain Expertise: Poss a comprehensive understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes, leading and owning cross-functional tasks, also fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing among network specialists to enhance performance and operational excellence across NAMX.
What makes you a good fit
- • Bachelor’s degree in business, Supply Chain, Operations, or Logistics, MBA or master’s degree and APICS Certification preferred.
- • 5+ years of supply chain management in ERP system, prior use of SAP with APO preferred.
- • Strong Excel and data management skills are needed, familiarity with Power BI is a plus.
- • Ability to use data-driven insights to optimize decisions and challenge the status quo.
- • Bias for action with the ability to navigate fast-paced environments and manage multiple priorities.
- • Excellent written and verbal communication skills to engage cross-functional teams effectively.
Some perks of joining Henkel
- Flexible work scheme with flexible hours, hybrid work model.
- Diverse national and international growth opportunities.
- Globally wellbeing standards with health and preventive care programs.
- Gender-neutral parental leave for a minimum of 8 weeks.
- Employee Share Plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares.
- Flexible Benefits.
- Meal vouchers.
- Savings fund.
At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us! We welcome all applications across different genders, origins, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, disabilities, and generations.
JOB ID: 25078671
Job Locations: Mexico, Estado De México, Huixquilucan
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I am interested in several jobs. Can I apply for multiple positions at the same time?
Yes – simply fill out your profile in our online application system. Once your online profile is complete, you can apply for multiple positions.
The job offer is written in English – should I write my application in English as well?
Yes, please. As Henkel is an international company you will be working with colleagues from all over the world and English is our official company language. Generally, the ‘rule’ is: please write the application in the same language as the job ad.
Do I get feedback during the application process about the state of my application?
Each position that we have open with Henkel is unique, and finding the right candidate is important for both the hired candidate as well as for Henkel. We want to make sure that both the candidate and the company are a good fit for each other. We will provide feedback to the candidates throughout the entire process.
Can employees move between business areas and/or to a different country?
Yes, in fact it is an expectation within Henkel that our talent is flexible and mobile. This helps to support the company on a broad, global level.
Our “Triple Two” philosophy promotes this expectation, by allowing you to work in at least two different roles, in two different business areas and two different countries. The reason behind this philosophy is that we believe working in different roles, business units and functions is good for your personal development and improves your understanding of Henkel as a global company.
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Whom do I contact if I have questions concerning my application?
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