The key to the role is to manage and optimize supply chain activities, ensuring that production plans align with market demands and stock availability. This role involves proactively addressing exceptions, imbalances, and supply constraints, all while driving continuous improvement and maintaining high customer service levels within operational horizons.
Your responsibilities:

• Develop and oversee master production plans, ensuring alignment with market demand and inventory availability
• Lead execution within assigned plants over the operational horizon; address demand and supply imbalances, conduct root cause analysis, and drive corrective actions; escalate capacity and material supply issues as needed
• Lead production scenario planning in collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure effective supply allocation across the network; balance demand and supply while considering all constraints
• Optimize customer service levels; take responsibility for short-term product availability and minimize finished goods write-offs; define service level guidelines based on target service levels
• Lead decision-making related to non-performing inventory and drive overall inventory optimization across the supply network
• Execute action plans for seasonal activities, new product launches, and improvements in case fill rates
• Drive initiatives to enhance supply chain efficiency, identify constraints, and develop actionable improvement plans
• Ensure effective collaboration across departments, with clear roles and responsibilities; act as an escalation point within the network and with suppliers; collaborate on root cause analysis with the Supply Network Planning Lead

To be able to achieve the above and be successful in this role we believe you need to have:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in supply chain/planning in production environment
• Strong problem-solving mindset, able to identify root causes and implement sustainable solutions
• Strong communication skills across all organizational levels and skilled in managing cross-functional stakeholders across factories, logistics, and planning
• Proven experience with continuous improvement methodologies (Lean, PDCA or similar)
• Strong process orientation with a focus on standardization and execution discipline
• Drives structured ways of working, governance, and accountability
• Focused on eliminating inefficiencies and maximizing team capacity
• Proven experience in leading and developing teams in dynamic environments with strong focus on coaching, mentoring, and building team capabilities
• Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes, ability to manage short-term supply challenges, constraints, and trade-offs
• Data-driven mindset with strong analytical capabilities
• Ability to balance service, cost, and efficiency (SCO triangle)

The team you will be working with is the Danone Planning Center (DPC), a newly opened, technologically advanced competency center located in Katowice. DPC is responsible for supply chain planning for fresh dairy, plant-based products, specialized nutrition and first diet from Nutricia. Covering all European countries, this innovative hub utilizes cutting-edge technology to optimize and revolutionize planning processes. With its advanced technological solutions, DPC would play a key role in ensuring supply chain efficiency across the continent.

We Offer:

• Competitive employment terms based on an employment contract with a company rated by Forbes as the best employer in FMCG in Poland in 2024,

• Work in a professional environment with a well-developed feedback culture,
• Opportunity to shape processes within your area of responsibility,
• Flexible work model in a hybrid system 
• Workation - the ability to combine work with leisure - for 30 days a year, you can work from virtually any location in Europe
• Access to a benefits platform offering discounts on company products and vouchers for cultural and sports events,
• Subsidy for Luxmed / Medicover - after all, we prioritize health!
• Subsidy for a Multisport card, 
• Life insurance and Employee Capital Plans (PPK).

what’s next?

 If you like our proposal and you want to join the group of DANONE please apply by finding your application form under “APPLY” button.

We embrace diversity in our organization. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or disability status.

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