Supply Chain Planner

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Summary: As a Supply Chain Planner for EMEA, you will play a key role in ensuring product availability while optimising costs, inventory, and production efficiency, translating demand into actionable plans. Highlights: 1. Key role in optimising costs, inventory, and production efficiency. 2. Translating demand signals into actionable production and replenishment plans. 3. Close collaboration with various stakeholders to drive operational performance. Arxada is a global leader in innovative solutions that protect our world. Our groundbreaking technologies, in‑depth regulatory know‑how, manufacturing and process development help our customers to safeguard nutrition, health and infrastructure efficiently through chemistry and biotechnology that enhance sustainability. We offer a broad portfolio of ingredients and services for multiple end‑markets that include Human Health \& Nutrition, Home \& Personal Care, Professional Hygiene, Paints \& Coatings and Wood Protection. With customers in more than 100 countries, the company achieved sales of CHF 2 billion in 2024\. Headquartered in Basel (Switzerland), Arxada employs 3,200 associates across 24 production sites and 14 R\&D centers, all committed to our customers’ success. As a Supply Chain Planner for the EMEA region, you will play a key role in ensuring product availability while optimising costs, inventory, and production efficiency. You will sit at the core of the supply chain, translating demand signals into actionable production and replenishment plans across a complex, multi\-site manufacturing network. This role requires close collaboration with Planning Managers, manufacturing sites, Customer Service, and cross\-functional stakeholders to manage demand variability, balance supply and demand, and drive operational performance. **Key Responsibilities** ------------------------ * Develop and execute production plans for Timber materials across EMEA, aligning demand forecasts with operational capacity * Review and challenge demand forecasts to address variability and improve planning accuracy * Manage warehouse replenishment across Europe, balancing service levels and inventory targets * Coordinate planning activities across multiple production sites, including South Africa (ZA30\) * Participate in SIOP, SOE, and cross\-functional planning processes, ensuring alignment and execution * Identify and mitigate supply risks, shortages, and imbalances proactively * Act as the primary planning contact for Customer Service and commercial teams, managing priorities and escalations **Qualifications \& Experience** -------------------------------- * 2–5 years of experience in Supply Chain, Production Planning, or Scheduling * Experience in manufacturing or multi\-site supply chains is strongly preferred * Strong analytical mindset with the ability to translate data into decisions * Advanced Excel skills; experience with BI tools is a plus * Effective communicator with strong stakeholder management skills * Ability to operate under pressure and manage competing priorities * Experience in scenario planning and risk assessment is advantageous * Reliable and executable production plans despite demand volatility * Improved customer service levels with optimised inventory * Fewer escalations through proactive planning and communication * Strong collaboration across supply chain, manufacturing, and commercial teams **Arxada has world class offering in two distinct areas:** Microbial Control Solutions (MCS) focuses on threats posed by microorganisms to people and planet through five distinct business lines including Professional Hygiene, Home \& Personal Care, Wood Protection, Paints \& Coatings and Material Protection. Nutrition, Care \& Environmental (NCE), meanwhile, provides materials used to manufacture composites for electronics, aerospace and other markets, as well as vitamins and nutritional ingredients, chemicals and performance intermediates, and raw materials for a wide range of high‑performance applications. Arxada is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a qualified individual with disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. ES03