Planning Officer

6 hours ago

Melbourne, Australia Brenntag Full time

Your Role

As the central point of contact for Australia, Planning officer must facilitate all demand and supply planning activities across all Business Units in collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Optimizing Supply Chain Efficiency
- Ensures the right products are brought into the right place at the right time.
- Coordinates inventory levels across warehouses to avoid overstocking or stockouts.
- Plans transportation routes to minimize delivery times and fuel costs.

Inventory Management
- Forecasts demand to align purchasing and stocking requirements and decisions.
- Reduces holding costs by maintaining optimal inventory levels.
- Prevents disruptions by planning for seasonal spikes or unexpected demand shifts.

Data-Driven Decision Making
- Analyzes historical data and market trends to guide operational strategies.
- Uses planning software to simulate scenarios and prepare for contingencies.
- Helps leadership make informed decisions about expansion, staffing, and resource allocation.
- Ensure maintenance of agreed lead times, minimum order quantities and safety stock settings in SAP
- Manage all Item Master data in SAP relevant to planning & procurement
- Contribute to NPD process, owning the planning & procurement aspects of the process

Coordination Across Departments
- Acts as a bridge between commercial, customer service, procurement, warehouse, logistics, and finance.
- Aligns operational plans with business goals and customer expectations.
- Ensures smooth execution of promotional campaigns or product launches.

Cost Control & Profitability
- Identifies inefficiencies and areas for cost reduction.
- Plans labor and equipment usage to avoid unnecessary expenses.
- Improves service levels while keeping distribution costs in check.

Strategic Growth & Scalability
- Supports long-term growth by planning infrastructure and capacity needs.
- Helps the company adapt to new markets, products, or distribution models.
- Builds resilience against supply chain disruptions or economic shifts.

Non-conformance management
- Review Job7’s and follow through to action improvements, addressing areas of sub-optimal performance
- Manage and report all non-conformances, acting on repetitious non-conformances
- Identify and implement changes to ensure a measured reduction in non-conformances and overall operation efficiency gains and continuous improvement initiatives are achieved

General
- Consistently demonstrate Brenntag values and expected behaviors through exemplary standard setting
- Actively participate in the annual Performance, Planning & Review Process (PPM), establishing individual KPIs and monitoring performance to ensure targets and effective work outcomes are achieved
- Take ownership of learning and development opportunities by creating an Individual Development Plan (IDP), strengthening your personal and professional developments.
- Perform such other duties and activities which may be assigned to you from time to time

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