Network Supply Planning Specialist **_About_** **_this_** **_Position_** At Henkel, you can build on a strong legacy and leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses to reimagine and improve life every day. If you love challenging the status quo, join our community of over 47.000 pioneers around the globe. Our teams at Henkel Adhesive Technologies help to transform entire industries and provide our customers with a competitive advantage through adhesives, sealants and functional coatings. With our trusted brands, our cutting-edge technologies and our disruptive solutions, you will have countless opportunities to explore new paths and develop What makes you a good fit. Grow within our future-led businesses, our diverse and vibrant culture and find a place where you simply belong. All to leave your mark for more sustainable growth. **Dare to make an impact?** **What you´ll do** About the team/role: As a network supply planning specialist, you will play a pivotal role in optimizing our supply chain operations. Leveraging your expertise in analytics, supply dynamics, and planning systems, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to proactively anticipate and address customer demands. This role is crucial for shaping and executing a unified supply strategy, aimed at delivering the highest level of customer service while minimizing operational costs. We are seeking an enthusiastic and detail-oriented supply chain professional with a strong analytical and financial acumen and excellent communication skills who can work independently to identify issues and propose solutions while also fostering effective collaboration with other functional groups. In this role, you will take ownership or provide essential support for global cross-team coordination and project management activities. + Key Responsibilities: + Managing planning parameters: Ensure the accuracy of planning parameters and alignment with global business objectives, thus streamlining the supply network, improving operational efficiency, reducing cost, mitigating risks to ultimately increase customer satisfaction. + Financial Acumen: Understands cost drivers, inventory valuation, and financial trade-offs in supply planning decisions. Able to analyze the financial impact of supply strategies, including cost-to-serve, working capital implications, and profitability optimization. + Data Maintenance: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to uphold master data governance standards, preserving the integrity and accuracy of critical master data. + Metrics Analysis and Reporting: Analyze key metrics to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement; develop and execute action plans, reporting findings/metrics to the leadership team and relevant stakeholders. + Project Management: Lead project independently, scoping and creating project plans, process development, execution coordination, and effective communication with senior management regarding project status, risks, and process/project changes. + End-to-End Supply Chain Expertise: Poss a comprehensive understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes, leading and owning cross-functional tasks, also fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing among network specialists to enhance performance and operational excellence across NAMX. **What makes you a good fit** + Qualifications: + Bachelor’s degree in business, Supply Chain, Operations, or Logistics, MBA or master’s degree and APICS Certification preferred. + 5+ years of supply chain management in ERP system, prior use of SAP with APO preferred. + Strong Excel and data management skills are needed, familiarity with Power BI is a plus. + Ability to use data-driven insights to optimize decisions and challenge the status quo. + Bias for action with the ability to navigate fast-paced environments and manage multiple priorities. + Excellent written and verbal communication skills to engage cross-functional teams effectively. **Some perks of joining Henkel** + Flexible work scheme with flexible hours, hybrid and work from anywhere policies + Diverse national and international growth opportunities + Globally wellbeing standards with health and preventive care programs + Gender-neutral parental leave for a minimum of 8 weeks + Employee Share Plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares + Annual performance bonus + Comprehensive healthcare including mental health support and 401(k) plan matched by employer + Family benefits including fertility support, fully paid parental leave, caregiver services + Paid sick leave, holidays, volunteer time off, summer Fridays & more The salary for this role is $80,000.00 - $90,000.00. This is the range that we in good faith anticipate relying on when setting wages for this position. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range. This salary range may also be modified in the future. Henkel does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies. Unsolicited referrals and resumes are considered Henkel property and therefore, Henkel will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited referral. At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us! All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and other legally protected characteristics. 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