Supply Chain Planner
for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title as heading. We must not include Job ID etc. We must include sections only when posting has real specific content. We must not create Pay/Schedule/Benefits unless posting actually states them. The posting does state Base starting salary ranges from $69k - $87k/year, plus annual incentive, comprehensive benefits package. So we can have Pay and Benefits sections. Schedule not mentioned, so omit.
We need to preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose.
We need to decide sections: About the role (intro paragraph about company and role purpose). Responsibilities (key accountabilities and deliverables). Requirements (skills and experience required). Qualifications (basic qualifications). Personal attributes maybe could be part of Requirements or separate? The instruction says use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can combine Skills within Requirements? But they gave separate Skills heading. We could have Skills section for skills and experience required. Qualifications for qualifications required. Personal attributes maybe could be under Requirements or Skills? But we can include as part of Skills? Might be better to have a section for Personal Attributes? Not in list but we could incorporate into Skills or Requirements. The instruction says "Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It's examples, not exhaustive, but we should prefer those headings. We can include Personal Attributes under Requirements or Skills. Probably better to have a Requirements section that includes both skills and personal attributes. But they also have Skills heading separate. Could do: About the role, Responsibilities, Skills, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay. That covers.
We need to preserve all substantive info: include purpose description, short-term planning responsibilities, buying aspect, etc. Also key accountabilities list. Also skills and experience required (essential and desirable). Also qualifications required (basic and desirable). Also personal attributes required (basic and desirable). Also additional job details: salary range, annual incentive, benefits package.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO, recruitment agency stuff. Remove those.
We need to format lists with - . For prose use
.
We must not repeat job title as heading.
We must not include markdown fences.
Let's craft.
Section About the role: combine introductory paragraph(s) about company mission and role purpose. Could be two paragraphs.
Section Responsibilities: include purpose description (planning aspect, buying aspect) and key accountabilities and deliverables (list). Could combine.
Section Skills: include essential criteria and desirable criteria from SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED.
Section Qualifications: include BASIC QUALIFICATIONS and DESIRABLE CRITERIA from QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED.
Section Benefits: include comprehensive benefits package description (maybe just phrase). Also annual incentive.
Section Pay: include base starting salary range.
We must not invent details like "commensurate with experience". We have salary range.
Let's extract details.
Intro: "Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you. As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits. To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact Click “Apply” to get started."
We can keep that as prose.
Purpose section: "PURPOSE:The planning aspect of this role is responsible for all short-term planning requirements for Flipz and Turtles. The short-term planning responsibilities include the scheduling of all intermediate processing (candy manufacturing & packaging resource groups) and finished product packaging operations using a fully integrated, closed loop, ERP system. Operational Execution includes the finite scheduling and on time availability for all seasonal finished goods and new product SKU's by ship dates, while minimizing obsolescence and maintaining a customer fill rate of 98.5%. The buying aspect of this role is responsible for strategic sourcing and category management for North America ingredients, packaging and Co-Manufactured finished products for Retail Channel, and packaging for seasonal collections. This role will develop bid packages and execute competitive bid events (i.e. - RFQ) for various sized projects. Also responsible for supplier relations, performance management initiatives, and to ensure proper compliance and risk management in all aspects – including managing purchase orders in a timely manner and confirming supplier due diligence. This position will also require active collaborations with key business stakeholders and cross-functional teams to develop process improvements and greater communication."
Key Accountabilities and Deliverables list: many bullet-like sentences. We'll convert each sentence to
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Let's extract each:
- Execute & publish schedules utilizing Capacity Planning and Material requirements programs to ensure Case Fill Rate of at least 98.5% while not exceeding inventory targets and utilizing available labor pool.
- Maintain system integrity to keep the information accurate and dynamic, thus reducing changeovers on the floor, correct material availability, accurate process flow, and accurate capacity planning.
- Launch all new Seasonal Collection and New products by ship dates.
- Member of cross-functional Operations/Marketing team that meets regularly to review the status for all new/seasonal/ongoing products.
- Ordering of materials to meet production schedules – utilizing MRP to create requisitions for ingredients and packaging.
- Supports both Godiva and pladis products manufactured, both core and seasonal products.
- Must launch all new Seasonal Collection and new products by ship dates - highlighting to planning manager and appropriate x-functional peers when there is risk to timing and/or product availability.
- Actively manage ingredient and packaging inventories to meet working capital objectives and ensure timely delivery of goods.
- Directing the production floor during the daily operations meeting, and as needed in writing, with instructions when schedule attainment/inventory shortages/quality problems arise and communicate issues to Customer Service.
- Maintaining the computer system data integrity on a continuing basis (updating product master, keeping work orders updated and properly maintained/closed)
- Update Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP) report to accurately reflect intended build of work in progress.
- Reports problems regarding food safety to Supervisor or Manager.
- Run RFQ’s and Negotiate costs –input costs and other supplier data into systems
- Attend cross functional team meetings – report updates and manage actions items for yourself and communicate summaries to team mates and manger(s)
- Represent as SPOC (single point of contact) for multiple supply chain functions (procurement, logistics, operations) for specific project team(s)
- Collaborate with stakeholders to establish objectives and productivity initiatives for strategic categories within Retail Channel and North America Marketing
- Develop and implement category management methodologies within focused categories
- Enhance supplier relationship and supplier performance management process within focused categories to ensure compliance with Quality and regulatory standards
- Drive the strategic sourcing process, develop category sourcing strategies and lead cross-functional teams
- Perform market and benchmark analysis for focused categories
- Effectively communicate and manage process change within stakeholder groups.
- Implement global savings tracking methodology and monitor savings tracking working closely with Finance
- Drive innovation and best practices within strategic categories working closely with Production Development, Quality, Creative Design, Packaging Engineering and Marketing
- Develop contract negotiation strategies and execute contracts working closely with legal
- Manage the procure-to-pay process to ensure compliance with internal audit requirements
- Provide guidance and direction to Supply Chain Procurement specialist to implement strategies and manage daily requirements to support manufacturing
- Create eSourcing and eAuction events within focused categories
- Support Global and Local Product Launches and other Initiatives within the North America region
Now Skills and Experience Required:
Essential Criteria:
- Knowledge of ERP systems (including D365 and SAP)
- Project management skills; ability to actively participate in and lead cross functional project team
- Confidence and success in problem resolution, resourcefulness and the ability to adjust to changes
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, deep attention to detail, professionalism, and demonstrated ability to develop relationships, and maintain business partnerships
- Demonstrated soft skill experience- including critical thinking, time management, team building, collaboration, professional development, etc.
- Analytical skills and attention to detail
- Excellent PC skills a must, knowledge of Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint required
Desirable Criteria:
- Understanding of MRP and Finite Scheduling processes
- Knowledge of Manufacturing Processes
- Solid presentation experience using flexible delivery methods (lecture, computer-based/assisted, performance, facilitation, cooperative learning) and tools/technology is preferred.
- Strategic Sourcing and category management experience with a major company beneficial
Qualifications Required:
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution required
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in procurement and planning
- Must be legally authorized to work in the US on a permanent basis without company sponsorship
Desirable Criteria:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration or Economics from an accredited institution required
- Resource Planning (ERP) system
Personal Attributes Required:
Basic Qualifications:
- Analytical, influencing, facilitating, team-building, strategic thinking, solution oriented, process-driven, people management
- Strong leadership, people management, analytical, project management, problem solving and organizational agility skills
- Excellent communication and presenting skills
- Ability to work in a growth oriented and fast paced work environment
- Results oriented with excellent problem-solving skills
- Ability to influence key stakeholders toward sustainable change even when faced with ambiguity
Desirable Criteria:
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Credible team player with good influence skills, particularly with regards to qualitative, abstract concepts
- Ability to work independently
Additional Job Details:
- Base starting salary ranges from $69k - $87k/year.
- The base pay offered is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and internal equity.
- In addition to base pay, this role includes:
- An annual incentive opportunity, awarded based on individual and company performance.
- A comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, well-being, and financial security
We need to output HTML fragment with sections.
We'll do:
About the role
... intro paragraphs ...
Responsibilities
PURPOSE: ... (maybe combine purpose paragraph)
... list of accountabilities ...
Skills
Essential Criteria
maybe not needed; but we can just list items under . The instruction says use - for any list. We can have headings inside? Probably okay to have
inside section but not required. We'll just list all skills under with subheadings maybe as . But to keep simple, we can separate essential and desirable as separate with headings Essential Criteria:
then . That's still using for prose.
Similarly for Qualifications.
We need to avoid creating sections with filler. We'll include all.
Let's craft HTML.
Be careful to escape any HTML special characters like & etc. Use & for &. Also ensure proper quotes.
We'll produce:
About the role
Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious
for prose. We need to decide sections: About the role (intro paragraph about company and role purpose). Responsibilities (key accountabilities and deliverables). Requirements (skills and experience required). Qualifications (basic qualifications). Personal attributes maybe could be part of Requirements or separate? The instruction says use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can combine Skills within Requirements? But they gave separate Skills heading. We could have Skills section for skills and experience required. Qualifications for qualifications required. Personal attributes maybe could be under Requirements or Skills? But we can include as part of Skills? Might be better to have a section for Personal Attributes? Not in list but we could incorporate into Skills or Requirements. The instruction says "Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It's examples, not exhaustive, but we should prefer those headings. We can include Personal Attributes under Requirements or Skills. Probably better to have a Requirements section that includes both skills and personal attributes. But they also have Skills heading separate. Could do: About the role, Responsibilities, Skills, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay. That covers.
We need to preserve all substantive info: include purpose description, short-term planning responsibilities, buying aspect, etc. Also key accountabilities list. Also skills and experience required (essential and desirable). Also qualifications required (basic and desirable). Also personal attributes required (basic and desirable). Also additional job details: salary range, annual incentive, benefits package.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO, recruitment agency stuff. Remove those.
We need to format lists with - . For prose use
.
We must not repeat job title as heading.
We must not include markdown fences.
Let's craft.
Section About the role: combine introductory paragraph(s) about company mission and role purpose. Could be two paragraphs.
Section Responsibilities: include purpose description (planning aspect, buying aspect) and key accountabilities and deliverables (list). Could combine.
Section Skills: include essential criteria and desirable criteria from SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED.
Section Qualifications: include BASIC QUALIFICATIONS and DESIRABLE CRITERIA from QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED.
Section Benefits: include comprehensive benefits package description (maybe just phrase). Also annual incentive.
Section Pay: include base starting salary range.
We must not invent details like "commensurate with experience". We have salary range.
Let's extract details.
Intro: "Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you. As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits. To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact Click “Apply” to get started."
We can keep that as prose.
Purpose section: "PURPOSE:The planning aspect of this role is responsible for all short-term planning requirements for Flipz and Turtles. The short-term planning responsibilities include the scheduling of all intermediate processing (candy manufacturing & packaging resource groups) and finished product packaging operations using a fully integrated, closed loop, ERP system. Operational Execution includes the finite scheduling and on time availability for all seasonal finished goods and new product SKU's by ship dates, while minimizing obsolescence and maintaining a customer fill rate of 98.5%. The buying aspect of this role is responsible for strategic sourcing and category management for North America ingredients, packaging and Co-Manufactured finished products for Retail Channel, and packaging for seasonal collections. This role will develop bid packages and execute competitive bid events (i.e. - RFQ) for various sized projects. Also responsible for supplier relations, performance management initiatives, and to ensure proper compliance and risk management in all aspects – including managing purchase orders in a timely manner and confirming supplier due diligence. This position will also require active collaborations with key business stakeholders and cross-functional teams to develop process improvements and greater communication."
Key Accountabilities and Deliverables list: many bullet-like sentences. We'll convert each sentence to
- .
Let's extract each:
- Execute & publish schedules utilizing Capacity Planning and Material requirements programs to ensure Case Fill Rate of at least 98.5% while not exceeding inventory targets and utilizing available labor pool.
- Maintain system integrity to keep the information accurate and dynamic, thus reducing changeovers on the floor, correct material availability, accurate process flow, and accurate capacity planning.
- Launch all new Seasonal Collection and New products by ship dates.
- Member of cross-functional Operations/Marketing team that meets regularly to review the status for all new/seasonal/ongoing products.
- Ordering of materials to meet production schedules – utilizing MRP to create requisitions for ingredients and packaging.
- Supports both Godiva and pladis products manufactured, both core and seasonal products.
- Must launch all new Seasonal Collection and new products by ship dates - highlighting to planning manager and appropriate x-functional peers when there is risk to timing and/or product availability.
- Actively manage ingredient and packaging inventories to meet working capital objectives and ensure timely delivery of goods.
- Directing the production floor during the daily operations meeting, and as needed in writing, with instructions when schedule attainment/inventory shortages/quality problems arise and communicate issues to Customer Service.
- Maintaining the computer system data integrity on a continuing basis (updating product master, keeping work orders updated and properly maintained/closed)
- Update Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP) report to accurately reflect intended build of work in progress.
- Reports problems regarding food safety to Supervisor or Manager.
- Run RFQ’s and Negotiate costs –input costs and other supplier data into systems
- Attend cross functional team meetings – report updates and manage actions items for yourself and communicate summaries to team mates and manger(s)
- Represent as SPOC (single point of contact) for multiple supply chain functions (procurement, logistics, operations) for specific project team(s)
- Collaborate with stakeholders to establish objectives and productivity initiatives for strategic categories within Retail Channel and North America Marketing
- Develop and implement category management methodologies within focused categories
- Enhance supplier relationship and supplier performance management process within focused categories to ensure compliance with Quality and regulatory standards
- Drive the strategic sourcing process, develop category sourcing strategies and lead cross-functional teams
- Perform market and benchmark analysis for focused categories
- Effectively communicate and manage process change within stakeholder groups.
- Implement global savings tracking methodology and monitor savings tracking working closely with Finance
- Drive innovation and best practices within strategic categories working closely with Production Development, Quality, Creative Design, Packaging Engineering and Marketing
- Develop contract negotiation strategies and execute contracts working closely with legal
- Manage the procure-to-pay process to ensure compliance with internal audit requirements
- Provide guidance and direction to Supply Chain Procurement specialist to implement strategies and manage daily requirements to support manufacturing
- Create eSourcing and eAuction events within focused categories
- Support Global and Local Product Launches and other Initiatives within the North America region
Now Skills and Experience Required:
Essential Criteria:
- Knowledge of ERP systems (including D365 and SAP)
- Project management skills; ability to actively participate in and lead cross functional project team
- Confidence and success in problem resolution, resourcefulness and the ability to adjust to changes
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, deep attention to detail, professionalism, and demonstrated ability to develop relationships, and maintain business partnerships
- Demonstrated soft skill experience- including critical thinking, time management, team building, collaboration, professional development, etc.
- Analytical skills and attention to detail
- Excellent PC skills a must, knowledge of Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint required
Desirable Criteria:
- Understanding of MRP and Finite Scheduling processes
- Knowledge of Manufacturing Processes
- Solid presentation experience using flexible delivery methods (lecture, computer-based/assisted, performance, facilitation, cooperative learning) and tools/technology is preferred.
- Strategic Sourcing and category management experience with a major company beneficial
Qualifications Required:
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution required
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in procurement and planning
- Must be legally authorized to work in the US on a permanent basis without company sponsorship
Desirable Criteria:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration or Economics from an accredited institution required
- Resource Planning (ERP) system
Personal Attributes Required:
Basic Qualifications:
- Analytical, influencing, facilitating, team-building, strategic thinking, solution oriented, process-driven, people management
- Strong leadership, people management, analytical, project management, problem solving and organizational agility skills
- Excellent communication and presenting skills
- Ability to work in a growth oriented and fast paced work environment
- Results oriented with excellent problem-solving skills
- Ability to influence key stakeholders toward sustainable change even when faced with ambiguity
Desirable Criteria:
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Credible team player with good influence skills, particularly with regards to qualitative, abstract concepts
- Ability to work independently
Additional Job Details:
- Base starting salary ranges from $69k - $87k/year.
- The base pay offered is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and internal equity.
- In addition to base pay, this role includes:
- An annual incentive opportunity, awarded based on individual and company performance.
- A comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, well-being, and financial security
We need to output HTML fragment with sections.
We'll do:
About the role
... intro paragraphs ...
Responsibilities
PURPOSE: ... (maybe combine purpose paragraph)
... list of accountabilities ...
Skills
Essential Criteria
maybe not needed; but we can just list items under . The instruction says use - for any list. We can have headings inside? Probably okay to have
inside section but not required. We'll just list all skills under with subheadings maybe as . But to keep simple, we can separate essential and desirable as separate with headings Essential Criteria:
then . That's still using for prose.
Similarly for Qualifications.
We need to avoid creating sections with filler. We'll include all.
Let's craft HTML.
Be careful to escape any HTML special characters like & etc. Use & for &. Also ensure proper quotes.
We'll produce:
About the role
Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious
. We must not repeat job title as heading. We must not include markdown fences. Let's craft. Section About the role: combine introductory paragraph(s) about company mission and role purpose. Could be two paragraphs. Section Responsibilities: include purpose description (planning aspect, buying aspect) and key accountabilities and deliverables (list). Could combine. Section Skills: include essential criteria and desirable criteria from SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED. Section Qualifications: include BASIC QUALIFICATIONS and DESIRABLE CRITERIA from QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED. Section Benefits: include comprehensive benefits package description (maybe just phrase). Also annual incentive. Section Pay: include base starting salary range. We must not invent details like "commensurate with experience". We have salary range. Let's extract details. Intro: "Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you. As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits. To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact Click “Apply” to get started." We can keep that as prose. Purpose section: "PURPOSE:The planning aspect of this role is responsible for all short-term planning requirements for Flipz and Turtles. The short-term planning responsibilities include the scheduling of all intermediate processing (candy manufacturing & packaging resource groups) and finished product packaging operations using a fully integrated, closed loop, ERP system. Operational Execution includes the finite scheduling and on time availability for all seasonal finished goods and new product SKU's by ship dates, while minimizing obsolescence and maintaining a customer fill rate of 98.5%. The buying aspect of this role is responsible for strategic sourcing and category management for North America ingredients, packaging and Co-Manufactured finished products for Retail Channel, and packaging for seasonal collections. This role will develop bid packages and execute competitive bid events (i.e. - RFQ) for various sized projects. Also responsible for supplier relations, performance management initiatives, and to ensure proper compliance and risk management in all aspects – including managing purchase orders in a timely manner and confirming supplier due diligence. This position will also require active collaborations with key business stakeholders and cross-functional teams to develop process improvements and greater communication." Key Accountabilities and Deliverables list: many bullet-like sentences. We'll convert each sentence to
About the role
... intro paragraphs ...
Responsibilities
PURPOSE: ... (maybe combine purpose paragraph)
- ... list of accountabilities ...
Skills
Essential Criteria
maybe not needed; but we can just list items under- . The instruction says use
- for any list. We can have headings inside? Probably okay to have
inside section but not required. We'll just list all skills under
- with subheadings maybe as . But to keep simple, we can separate essential and desirable as separate
- with headings
Essential Criteria:
then- . That's still using
for prose. Similarly for Qualifications. We need to avoid creating sections with filler. We'll include all. Let's craft HTML. Be careful to escape any HTML special characters like & etc. Use & for &. Also ensure proper quotes. We'll produce:
About the role
Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious