**ABOUT UNILEVER**
Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do - creating a better business and a better world. You will work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. You will lead innovations, big and small, that will make our business win and grow. You will learn from brilliant business leaders and colleagues who provide mentorship and inspiration so that you can become a better you.
**JOB PURPOSE**
If you want to be part of Unilever´s history, as being part of the creation of a completely new site that has the expectation to be a state of the art and future fit factory, a model for other sites to reference both internally and externally, then this role is just for you!
**WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE**
Responsible for the weekly management & communication for the requirements planning and scheduling, ensuring customer service and maintaining the predetermined finished goods & non-finished goods inventories. It is essential that this position functions within the scheduling department in such a way to optimize the overall network capabilities to ensure network goals for customer service, inventories, and cost.
As Material Planner, the position will oversee and supervise the factory planning process, maintain bills of materials, in addition to also ensuring optimum placement of purchase orders for raw and packaging materials. The position communicates with procurement & vendors to coordinate in-plant arrivals of materials to fulfill production schedules, ensuring no outages while carefully managing the Raw/WIP/Pack inventories.
**WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED**
- Understand Material Planning principals (MPR, Inventory Models).
- Manage the planning cycle, supervising the requisitioning and releasing of dependant demands for supply base.
- Oversee the creation/release of purchase orders for all packing & raw materials needed to support scheduled production. Directly manage the production scheduling process.
- Communicate with vendors to ensure material delivery on a timely basis. Manage materials (NFG) inventory levels to insure achievement of the plant and category inventory targets.
- Ensures vendors meet all packaging and raw material specifications, analyze total vendor performance, via procurement tools for managing supplier performance.
- Lead/Facilitate scheduling and manufacturing meetings as needed. Manage relevant KPI's and communicate to stakeholders.
**Experiences** & **Qualifications**
- Degree in Logistics, Operations, Planning, Engineering or related fields.
- Logistics, Planning, or Manufacturing. 3+ years of relevant experience.
- Working knowledge of project management. SAP training and experience preferred.
**Skills**
- Stakeholder management, Risk management, Problem solving, data science.