Senior Production Planner

Are you passionate about logistics and eager to dive into production planning within an international company? And do you want to bring your lean and process optimization skills into play? Then this is the right job for you!

"You get lots of challenges within the entire supply chain and production planning area. At the same time, you should expect to bring your personality into play, as you are in contact with several different stakeholders – both inside and outside Grundfos. Did I mention that you will also be surrounded by probably the best colleagues in the world?” – Supply Chain Manager, Pia Helene Bechmann Andersen.

From value chain to production planning

As a Senior Production Planner at Grundfos in Bjerringbro, you will be responsible for production planning in your own production area. Here, you spend the majority of your time on planning our production capacities and communicating with internal customers within Grundfos. The aim is to balance the customers' needs with the production capacity and the ability of our suppliers, so that we can continue to deliver high customer service. Therefore, as a Senior Production Planner, you play an essential role in balancing demand and supply with material availability, and ultimately ensure what is best for the entire value chain. To support this, an important part of your job will be to handle exceptions and reassessing the schedule when necessary.

In addition to the daily management of the planning, you will have the responsible to optimize the planning processes in your area, according to the best practice in Grundfos. Additionally, you will monitor and challenge current inventory levels to comply with the common goal to reduce inventory in the value chain. This is where your competencies related to lean and process optimization will come into play. Predefined Key Process Indicators (KPIs) indicate whether the inventory and planning processes are in control, and based on deviations it is expected that you, as the Senior Production Planner, make simple data analysis and based on the findings interact with customer, purchasers, the warehouse and the production to get back on track.

What is the job about?

On a daily basis, you sit among 9 colleagues in our Supply Chain Planning department in the Electronics factory located in Bjerringbro. We have offices in direct extension of the production, which provides good opportunities for close collaboration when you help to ensure that your planning is executed.

In the department, we each have our own areas of responsibility, but we have a common goal and are good at working together. We have a strong collaboration and help each other both with everyday challenges and long-term projects. You will be greeted by a professional environment with an informal tone, where jokes during the day help to create a positive working environment.

Your background

You have a mathematical approach and a good understanding of planning. In addition, you have knowledge of internal logistics and planning in a production company, which also involves material and stock management. You are good at mapping work processes and use your structured approach in your daily work. With a continuous improvement mentality you can execute simple data analysis in Excel, identify room for improvement and implement necessary changes in close collaboration with relevant stakeholders.

We are open to different backgrounds and experiences – but we imagine that you:

• have an office education with experience with production planning or a bachelor’s degree within logistic or supply chain.

• have at least a few years of experience with SAP. Preferable SAP PP, the Production Planning module.

• write and speak both Danish and English, so you can respond to foreign customer inquiries.

As a person, you thrive in a dynamic everyday life where we depend on fixed processes to keep things running. At the same time, you are good at handling deviations, and excel in communicating with multiple different stakeholders. You are self driven and have a lean mindset.

What’s in it for you?

Whether it’s developing leadership skills or advancing your expertise even further, we’ll support you with continuous learning and development opportunities, to help discuss and steer your long-term Grundfos career path. You’ll be welcomed from day one into an inclusive, trusting environment guided by six core values.

In addition, your day-to-day benefits include:

If you’ll be working from your home office, we’ll make sure you are well equipped with a good workstation. However, you are always welcome to our offices where you can engage, learn, and have fun with colleagues
On top of it, flexible working hours and up to 3 days’ additional paid leave for volunteering of your choice
Annual bonuses, health insurance, parental support, internal well-being consultants and programmes
Access to the modern Grundfos Academy to pursue further both personal and professional development
Diverse, inclusive environment with employee-led forums offering colleagues a safe place to connect and share openly

Do you want to learn more?

If you have questions or would like to know more about this position, please contact Supply Chain Manager, Pia Helene Bechmann Andersen on mail: [email protected]

If this job sounds appealing, please send your resume by clicking “Apply”. Due to summer vacation, please expect a longer response time. We expect to held interviews in August.

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