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Date: Jan 31, 2025

Location: Nashville, TN, US, 37214

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Company: AkzoNobel

We’ve been pioneering a world of possibilities to bring surfaces to life for well over 200 years. As experts in making coatings, there’s a good chance you’re only ever a few meters away from one of our products. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and have set our sights on becoming the global industry leader. It’s what you’d expect from the most sustainable paints company, which has been inventing the future for more than two centuries.

Job Purpose

Understand existing and future capacity plans and constraints at designated manufacturing sites and distribution networks to ensure supply demands are met.  Develop and maintain effective relationships with procurement and suppliers to plan raw and packaging materials, ensuring that the production plan may be executed.  Support project and process improvements to enhance performance and efficiency of material planning activities.

Key Responsibilities Review and update material planning, managing material availability to ensure production plans are met.  Will provide impact analysis, prepare reports, and manage exceptions as needed. Create purchase order, informing production planning of timelines.  Will review the twelve-week outlook for the material plan, considering account capacity agreement and storage capacity at the designated site. Manage reduction and prevention of slow and obsolete stock.  Ensure rework and scrapping are conducted at designated sites. Input and maintain inventory of existing, new, and phase-out products for raw and packaging materials into the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, ensuring safety stock levels.  Will ensure the accuracy and proper housekeeping of transactional data. Serve as the supply representative during Gatekeeping meetings with other departments, providing relevant key performance indicators (KPIs) to drive performance. Support project and process improvement to enhance performance and efficiency of the required material planning activities. Job Requirements Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Logistics or related field. Effective problem-solving skills with the ability to identify and analyze issues, providing recommendations for resolution. Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.  Proficient in Microsoft Office.  Experience using SAP preferred. Fluent in English. Rewards and Benefits

The salary range for these skills is $60,000.00 - $70,000.00.  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.  This salary range may also be modified in the future.
 

Perks for Joining AkzoNobel  
Medical insurance with HSA • Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D benefits • Annual bonus • 401K retirement savings with 6% company match • Generous vacation, personal and holiday pay • Paid Parental leave • Active Diversity and Inclusion Networks • Career growth opportunities on a regional and global scale • Tuition Reimbursement • Career growth opportunities • Employee referral bonus 

 

 

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status.

Requisition ID: 44694 

Nearest Major Market: Nashville

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