Supply Chain Manager

Job Description:Get ready to Own professionalization as a Supply Chain Manager at Nutreco, an SHV company. As global leaders in animal nutrition and aquafeed, our shared purpose of Feeding the Future is making a positive global impact for generations to come. Join us in this transformational role and Own your playbook, Own your impact and Own your career growth.The Supply & Demand Planning Manager is responsible for the Supply & Demand Planning process at Operating Company/BU level.  This position will be in Japan and Native or equivalent level of Japanese language and Business English is required.  The Supply & Demand Planning Manager oversees managing and coordinating the OpCo’s/BU Supply & Demand Planning function. Moreover she/he is focusing on sustainably deploying the Nutreco Supply & Demand planning standards across the Opco/BU and incites a continuous improvement mindset that drives a step-by-step improvement of the Supply Planning Process and cycle. Ultimate deliverable is the sustainable improvement of the IBP maturity towards level 3.The Supply & Demand Planning Manager is the link with Operations, Maintenance, Procurement, Formulation, Supply Chain teams and suppliers as well as (global) supply pointsOpco/BU Supply & Demand Strategy Provide input to the Supply Chain strategy and Opco/BU IBP strategyDevelops and ensure execution of the Supply & Demand strategy for the own Supply Chain department in order to improve supply excellenceDevelop and ensure execution of the Plan policy for the own remit in line with the overall Supply Chain strategyContribute pro-actively to the strategic planning process (>15 months horizon)Defines strategy for new businesses by analysing the latest trends and developments in the market and translating this to the own departmentLead and drive the demand segmentation process.Integrated Business Supply & Demand PlanningAligned with Plant/Operations and third-party suppliers, co-drive the execution of the IBP process (operational and tactical horizon), organize all meetings according to the Nutreco standards, support and facilitate the Financial Forecasting ProcessParticipate, prepare, facilitate and lead assigned Supply meetings according to IBP standardsPrepare scenario decision documents for IBP processBalance demand and supply in the most optimal way in terms of volume, revenues, costs, and margin and develop scenarios for decision making.Provide procurement, supply points and logistics departments with production plans in line with service levels, inventory, production parameters, targets and guidelinesProvide the commercial organisation with approved plans to fulfil demandOptimize and implement changes to the supply network of the Opco/BU, in line with targets and guidelines (focus on OTIF and EBIT improvement), while understanding the impact for supply points connected to the network. Manage supply planning resources (capacity, critical materials, ...