Planning and Materials Specialist

No Relocation Assistance Offered
Job Number #164162 - Villawood, New South Wales, Australia

**Who We Are**

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specialising in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name

Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.

**About Colgate-Palmolive**

Do you want to come to work with a smile and leave with one as well? In between those smiles, your day consists of connecting with others across the world, full of stimulating discussions, and making impactful contributions
If this is how you see your career, Colgate is the place to be Our dependable household brands, dedicated employees, and sustainability commitments make us a company passionate about building a future to smile about for our employees, consumers, and surrounding communities. We win as a global organization by continually learning and collaborating. The pride in our brand fuels a workplace that encourages creative thinking, champions experimentation, and promotes authenticity which has contributed to our enduring success. If you want to work for a company that lives by their values, then give your career a reason to smile...every single day.

**Job Summary**

Reporting to the Planning Manager, the Planning and Materials Specialist is responsible for production planning, forecasting, and ordering packaging and raw materials for all Home Care products produced at the Villawood manufacturing plant. This role involves setting up Finished Goods and Material Master Data in SAP, and requires close collaboration with cross-functional internal stakeholders and external suppliers at all levels to ensure efficient operations in the plant. The Specialist must adhere to daily and monthly critical timelines for generating, analysing, and responding to tasks and reports related to manufacturing operations. Additionally, the role requires leveraging essential planning strategies with key stakeholders.

**Role Responsibilities**

Planning
- Complete all material SAP Master Data Management
- Delivering daily and monthly planning KPIs to ensure service delivery
- Creating daily production planning schedules, aligned with maintenance plans, material availability, demand planning and sequencing in planning optimiser.
- Analysing supply and demand gaps, to ensure timely supply of products
- Creating daily reports, analysing data outputs and escalating material or supply challenges to relevant stake holders

Materials Management
- Review and manage supply of packaging materials, ensuring availability of all packaging materials to produce in line with the production schedule
- Deliver right size packaging material inventory management
- Coordinate and facilitate the obsolete and slow moving inventory (OSMI) stock management process

Stakeholder Management
- Continuous collaboration / escalation with Operations team ensuring clear and concise material availability communication.
- Partnering cross functionally with internal teams to drive process efficiencies, enable business growth, and support new product development goals.
- Partner with external suppliers and internal stakeholders regarding supply status and potential risks.
- Conduct regular external supplier meetings to review internal forecasts and identify supply gaps.

Other Planning Tasks
- Work closely with the Planning and Inventory Coordinator and Planning Manager, to support internal planning activities and initiatives as required.
- Coordinate and participate in semi annual stocktake activities, in conjunction with Operations.
- Coordinate the purchasing of non-inventory materials on site.
- Identify and participate in continuous improvement activities.

**Required Skills and Education**
- Tertiary qualification in relevant supply chain disciplines
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in production and materials planning in SAP (e.g. ERP ECC systems)
- SAP experience (Master Data Management)

**Preferred Skills**:

- Google Suite and Microsoft Office experience
- APICS - Certified Supply Chain Planner (CSCP) qualification
- Production Planning Optimizer system experience

**Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion**
Achieving our purpose starts with our people — ensuring our workforce represents the people and communities we serve —and creating an environment where our people feel they belong; where we can be our authentic selves, feel treated with respect and have the support of leadership to impact the business in a meaningful way.

**Equal Opportunity Employer**
Colgate is an equal opportunity employer