Role purpose
Ensure effective and efficient supply planning activities for Syngenta Seeds; manage through supervision, control and optimization of the logistics operations.
Accountabilities
- Act as a key point between the regional and local teams regarding all the demand activities, ensure resolutions are found for all the challenges, in due time;
- Management of the local demand, ensure accurate reflection into planning systems;
- Provide visibility to commercial team on seeds allocation, supply plan, challenges and solutions to overcome these challenges;
- Follow up daily the execution of supply plan, communicate availability information to the commercial team on volumes and timing;
- Proactively identify and communicate future supply constraints, allocation, T&P campaign phasing and suggest solutions in order to meet market expectations;
- Maintain updated the master data, collaborate with marketing on the SKU catalog’s update;
- Follow up on KPI’s for sales forecasting and demand planning and initiate corrective actions;
- Place and follow up intercompany purchase orders both for commercial and demo seeds;
- Stock management through redeployments, returns in line with company policy;
- Constantly seek forecasting process improvement, contribute to the local / regional continuous improvement projects;
- Manage the management of the quality issues: registration in the systems, resolutions follow up with relevant departments;
- Ensure timely and accurate customs clearance of goods and complaint management;
- Prepare various reports in line with legal requirements (Intrastat, Waste management reports, reports to Ministry of Agriculture, reports for Customs, reports to Bureau of Statistics), and company requirements;
- Closely monitor allocated local resources, FuCo Budget (variable distribution), report any deviations from initial plan without delay, work out on corrections;
- Ensure the daily operations between the internal stakeholders and the logistics providers;
- Cost control of the services / invoices received from the service providers.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree
- Knowledge of supply chain and sales operation drivers and logics
- Knowledge of Planning Cycles, Sales Cycles, Production, Processes
- SAP and Microsoft office skills at the proficiency level
- Reporting capabilities
- Proven ability to deliver promises under tight time lines
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Result oriented and customer focused
- Analytical and commercially well developed
- Proficient time management skills
- Quality conscious and service minded
- Able to cope with pressure and conflicting demands
- Problem solving ability / decision making ability
- Fluent in English (verbal as well as in writing)
