Material Planner Emea Milano

Material Planner Emea
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

The Company**:

- Campari Group is a major player in the global spirits industry, with a portfolio of over 50 premium and super premium brands, spreading across Global, Regional and Local priorities.

Global Priorities, the Group's key focus, include Aperol, Appleton Estate, Campari, SKYY, Wild Turkey and Grand Marnier.

The Group was founded in 1860 and today is the sixth-largest player worldwide in the premium spirits industry.

It has a global distribution reach, trading in over 190 nations around the world with leading positions in Europe and the Americas.

The Group's growth strategy aims to combine organic growth through strong brand building and external growth via selective acquisitions of brands and businesses.

Headquartered in Milan, Italy, Campari Group owns 18 plants worldwide and has its own distribution network in 20 countries, and employs approximately 4, 000 people.

**You will join the EMEA Supply Planning Organization, in a unique time, because of great investments, transformation projects and the opportunity to gain experience in supporting a change phase within the function.

**The Role**:

The position will report to the Supply Planning Manager and will be in charge of planning materials within the Region, coordinating with Regional Supply Planning Team, plants' MRP Planners and the Regional Procurement Team.

**Key Responsibilities

The Regional Materials Planner is responsible to perform all planning activities to ensure optimal availability of

**Packaging Components / Glass** to meet production requirements:

- Support Procurement in yearly negotiations with suppliers, translating yearly volumes in monthly requirements

- Manage bottles planning process (forecast, allocations, supplier stock/ production control, exception management)

- Create materials forecast and share with supplier

- Create and maintain material planning objects in SAP (e. g.

scheduling agreement) to ensure material availability for call-off

- Ensure an allocation of volumes along different suppliers in line with yearly contracts and quotas defined by Procurement

The role could furtherly evolve, once the position is mature, taking responsibility for additional categories (raw material, semi-finished goods) and on material master data.

**Key Activities

- Analyze European plants' material requirements on a 12-18 months horizon

- Allocate volumes to different Suppliers, based on contracts and quota arrangement negotiated by procurement (in case of multi-source)

- Create 12-18 months rolling forecast and share them with Suppliers

- Analyze stock position and production plans shared by bottles' suppliers on a weekly basis, to ensure that plants' requirements are covered

- Provide guidelines to plants for weekly call off execution

- Monitor contracts consumption, and alert Procurement in case of deltas versus quantities agreed with Suppliers

- Crysis management (re-allocate volumes among suppliers in case of quality issues, material shortage, overconsumption vs. forecast, etc.

)

- Support procurement in yearly negotiation with Suppliers, providing insights on monthly volumes

- Support procurement in measuring Suppliers' performances

**Skillset & Traits**:

- University Degree in (Business/ Engineering/

- 3 Years of relevant experience within qualified multinational (Beverage/ FMCG)

- Strong analytical skills (statistics, strong Excel capabilities)

- Ability to interface with wide variety of business situations and different functions

- Strong communication and interpersonal skills

- Problem solving and decision-making skills

- Proficient in SAP, MS Office, Excel and PowerPoint

- English proficiency required, French is a plus