Master Planner
Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.
This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Master Planner will contribute to converting the long term monthly supply plan into a mid term weekly plan to facilitate material requirements planning and near-term staffing activities. In this role, you will help handle multiple product lines or sites with low to medium impact on working capital and ensure the connection between integrated business planning activities and tactical production execution.
The role implies being on-site a minimum of 3 days per week, in one of our offices in either: Schiphol (Netherlands), Botlek (Netherlands), Sofia (Bulgaria), Izegem (Belgium) or Hamburg (Germany).
Key Accountabilities
- Analyze plant capacity and production requisition data to resolve manufacturing plans and required resources.
- Provide necessary input to supply planner to support integrated business planning
- Provide informal mentorship and training to coordinators.
- Participate in setting master production planning metrics targets.
- Maintain data relevant to master production planning activities including planning calendars, material data and location data.
- Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Demonstrated work experience in areas such as: master planning / supply planning / production scheduling / inventory planning or equivalent
- Experience with Power BI for integrated dashboard development, execution, and maintenance
- Strong analytical skills, particularly in MS Excel
- English – advanced language knowledge
Preferred Qualifications
- Related experience in master production planning, production scheduling or supply planning
- Experience with Power BI scripting and advanced analytical reporting (e.g., VBA).
- Familiarity with SAP IBP or comparable planning tools
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Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.
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