Supply Chain Planner - Hiring Now

We are hiring a resourceful Supply Chain Planner to join our dynamic team at Syngenta Crop Protection in Greensboro, NC.
Growing your career as a Full Time Supply Chain Planner is an awesome opportunity to develop useful skills.
If you are strong in critical thinking, creativity and have the right experience for the job, then apply for the position of Supply Chain Planner at Syngenta Crop Protection today!

As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all –while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs.

Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting. From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold.

Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland.

Job Description

The North America regional Supply Chain Planner performs the critical role of balancing supply with demand to ensure delivery of product to market to satisfy the sales plan while managing cost and working capital impact. In this role the Planner will:

• Create and maintain a production plan across the planning horizon that delivers the sales plan and is balanced for capacity
• Lead the regional supply chain for assigned portfolio including all communication to regional and global stakeholders required for problem solving, prioritizing and decision making
• Collaborate with Product Management to ensure alignment between the business and Production & Supply
• Develop and implement a strategy to manage inventory to target levels
• Understand the end-to-end supply chain, capacities, lead times & bottlenecks to ensure an efficient plan
• Evaluate feasibility of forecast changes, identify & communicate constraints in Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) meetings
• Participate in the monthly Requirements & Operations Planning (ROP) meetings & new product launch teams
• Identify & action obsolete, slow or no-moving inventory
• Collaborate with Global Supply Chain Manager on regional supply chain strategy & design
• Manage regional allocation plan when Active Ingredients are constrained
• Negotiate with Global Planning on supply & inventory
• Lead or participate on planning improvement projects
• Act as subject matter expert for training plan topic

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business or similar
• 3+ years in Supply Chain, Operations, or Logistics preferred
• ERP, MRP and Advanced Planning tool experience
• APICS certifications preferred

Additional Knowledge, Skills, Traits & Abilities:

• Sets ambitious strategic goals - Uses foresight to develop ambitious strategies, and aligns individual and team objectives with the bigger picture
• Communicates with impact - Gains commitment of individuals and stakeholders in a compelling way
• Focuses on customers - Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers
• Manages for performance - Skillfully plans, organizes and monitors performance to create value and achieve excellence in delivery
• Collaborates across boundaries - Collaborates effectively across organizational and functional boundaries, and leverages diversity

Additional Information

• A culture that celebrates diversity & inclusion, promotes professional development, and strives for a work-life balance that supports the team members
• Flexible work options to support your work and personal needs
• Full Benefit Package (Medical, Dental & Vision) that starts your first day
• 401k plan with company match, Profit Sharing & Retirement Savings Contribution
• Paid Vacation, 12 Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Education Assistance, Wellness Programs, Corporate Discounts, among other benefits

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC)

Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA)

Benefits of working as a Supply Chain Planner in Greensboro, NC:

● Company offers great benefits
● Advancement opportunities
● Attractive package