Supply Planner
HybridAthens, Attica, Greece
EXPIREDAthens, Attica, GreeceHybridFull TimeLarge
Full TimeLarge
Job Summary
Manage purchasing strategies and stock policies across a defined portfolio to maximize working capital efficiency while meeting customer needs. Define procurement strategies based on market dynamics and commercial policies, interact with sales teams to improve forecasting accuracy, and execute replenishments to minimize costs and optimize margins. Coordinate master planning, reconcile stock deviations, and collaborate with product managers to remove blockers and rationalize obsolete inventory. Provide purchase forecasts to principals, track supply consistency, and ensure compliance with QA, SHE, and sustainability requirements. Master ERP functionalities to support operational excellence and provide cover for the Planning team as required.
Required Qualifications
- Proven experience in supply chain and supply planning
- Entrepreneurial, analytical and commercial mindset
- Negotiation skills
- Passion for achieving goals/targets
- High service level standards
- Team-player
- Strong communication skills
- Good knowledge of English
- Excellent organizational skills
- Self-starter
- Advanced user of various IT tools & ERP systems
- Understanding of supplier, customer and market dynamics and requirements
- Ability to adapt to new & changing requirements
- Flexible approach to working with pressure
- Ensure compliance with all QA and SHE requirements
- Procedures and working instructions
- Maintain high service standards
- Quality of Data Management
- Translate the Group's Sustainability Strategy into concrete job-related actions
- Contribute to continuous process optimization
- Excellent teamwork
- Provide regular feedback to supply chain business process owners
- ERP key users
- Enable operational excellence, efficiency and effectiveness
- Develop expertise in processes and work instructions related to own scope
- Support development of best practices
- Provide cover for the Planning team as required
Desired Qualifications
- Talented, proactive, dynamic and self-motivated Supply Planner
- International, dynamic Team
- Manage and develop purchasing strategies across a defined principal portfolio
- Formalize a stock policy according to demand forecasts, principal's capacities and available stocks
- Maximize working capital efficiency
- Meeting principal needs
- Supporting best in class customer satisfaction
- Interact with both commercial and operational teams
- Working closely with Sales teams
- Product Managers
- Supply chain Administrators
- Define procurement strategies according to market dynamics
- Azelis commercial policies
- Product classification
- Principals' expectations/specifications
- Get market insights
- Improve sales forecasting accuracy
- Set up master planning based on stock rotation
- Sales
- Customers behavior
- Maintain data regularly
- Execute replenishments where needed
- Maximize stock availability
- Minimize product cost
- Reducing Net Working Capital
- Ensure best balance between margins maximization and DIO optimization
- Give preference to internal sourcing through local entities
- Collaborate with Supply Chain Administrators and Product Managers
- Remove blockers slowing down goods receipt
- Limit obsolete stocks
- Rationalize impaired and expired stocks
- Coordinate destocking actions
- Join business reviews
- Share planning results
- Follow up on market trends
- Principals' organizations
- Product range specifications
- Track principals' supply consistency
- Detect opportunities
- Develop operational relationship
- Provide purchase forecasts to Principals when required
- Ensure purchase orders alignment with forecasts
- Reconcile stock deviations
- Initiate stock counting where needed
- Create principal accounts with Product Manager and Supply Chain Administrator
- Ensure new products setup consistency
- Master ERP functionalities
- IT Systems related to own scope
- Work efficiently
- Provide best service to Customers and Principals
- Ensure conformance
- Contribute to sustainability
- Maintain high service standards and quality of Data Management
- Translate the Group's Sustainability Strategy into concrete job-related actions
- Contribute to continuous process optimization
- Excellent teamwork
- Provide regular feedback to supply chain business process owners
- ERP key users
- Enable operational excellence, efficiency and effectiveness
- Develop expertise in processes and work instructions related to own scope
- Support development of best practices
- Provide cover for the Planning team as required
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