Planning & Logistics Site Lead

As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter 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.

An exciting new opportunity has arisen for a Planning & Logistics Site Lead, based at our Grangemouth facility. As a key member of our site leadership team this newly created role will;

• Lead and continuously optimise the planning, scheduling and logistics operations for the site (both internal and external) for both AI and FF&P. Includes contacts and procedures related to customs.
• Coordinate and consult the different Syngenta functions on planning, scheduling and logistics related topics; act as single key point of contact on managerial level. Co-ordination along the supply chain, especially with AI and FF&P Supply Chain Planners, Vendor Schedulers, manufacturing and logistics manage the production plan and ex-works shipments.
• Generate and maintain capacity and material balanced supply plans for the products in the production site with a strong focus on the 0-3 months but also on the 3-24 months through coordination with the supply chain planning community.
• Create, support and supervise the overall AI and FF&P production plans, providing options on formulation and packaging components to meet variances in demand and supply ensuring an effective balance in inventory and quick market response with a strong focus on HSE and Continuous Improvement.
• Be responsible for the Site ROP together with the relevant supply chain ROP Leads (Asset Planners).
• Co-ordinate and collaborate along the supply chain to manage the production plan, its execution and ex-works shipments over a current season horizon.

• Professional competences in MES (SAP) and similar tools.
• Preferable CPIM / CSCP or CLTD certified by APICS.
• Advanced supply chain planning processes knowledge.
• Basic understanding of production processes.
• Good grasp of third-party relationship management and procurement policies.
• Planning parameters, master data management and data integrity (EDWH).
• Customs-, Import-, Export-, Transport-regulations.
• Project management experience.
• Experience in a supply chain, manufacturing, procurement or technical role at leadership level
• Experience of successfully dealing with internal and external stakeholders and external regulators.
• Lean system tools knowledge such as OEE, SMED, 5S, Blitz Kaizen, Kan Ban, 5Why.

Whilst this role offers a competitive base pay, at Syngenta we value total reward which includes the benefits we offer to our employees. We support well-being, offering comprehensive benefits including flexible working, generous holiday entitlement, discretionary bonus scheme, competitive pension scheme, private medical insurance and employee assistance programme.

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