About the role:

As a Planning Tower Lead, this role oversees the Supply planning team to providing guidance, coaching and ensure reliability, service quality and high performing team culture. This role is actively working as a key contact for several areas, supply planning, scheduling and sourcing.

Key responsibilities:

• Foster a positive and collaborative work environment, promoting teamwork and knowledge sharing among team members.
• Play an active part in career development of Supply Planning teams.
• Supports collaboration with the functional management team.
• Process improvement: Continuously monitor and evaluate effectiveness of systems, tools and processes in supply planning; support functional leads in identifying opportunities, lead process improvement initiatives to streamline and automate supply planning processes.
• Stakeholder management: Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders, including department heads, subsidiaries, and senior management; act as point of contact and escalation for supply planning senior management.
• Identify & channel automation, technology, scope enhancement and improvements to drive efficiency gains in line with planning ambitions.

About you:

• Master’s Degree within Business or Engineering.
• APICS Certification.
• Fluent English.
• Experience with team management.
• More than 5 years’ experience in supply planning, purchasing, inventory management, and/or logistics.
• Understanding of the production planning process and sourcing.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to learn new systems and processes quickly.
• Solution driven.
• Good team management skills.
• Strategic mindset with proven international stakeholder management expertise and good networking skills.
• Ideally proven track-record of driving and inspiring change.
• Travel requirements: 1 time per month

We offer:

• Employment on a regular basis in the sweetest company in the world.
• Annual bonus based on your work results.
• Lunch card to be used for groceries and restaurants.
• Private medical care in Lux Med (basic package fully financed by BC).
• Fit Profit sports card co-financed by BC.
• PPE: we care about your future, and we save money for your retirement.
• Cafeteria Program as a part of Social Fund.
• Group life insurance.
• Hybrid working model: min. 8 days in the office a month.
• As part of our work-life balance culture, we can start work between 7 am and 10 am.
• Free consultation with a lawyer once a quarter.
• Chocolate! Yes, surprising but we have chocolate in the office, for Christmas, BC’s Birthday, and many other occasions during the year.
• And if chocolate is still not enough, you can join one of our theme clubs, where together with other employees we develop our passions and interests.
• Daily delivery of fresh fruits and veggies to the office.
• You can purchase our sweet products with a special discount.
• Relax zone in the office and plenty of options to choose from: PlayStation 5, football table, pool table, Ping-Pong, library, table games, and massage chairs.
• Sport @work? Sure! We have treadmills and indoor exercise bikes with a laptop station.
• We like to party as much as we like chocolate! We have integration budgets we can use for team events.
• Forever Chocolate and Event Team: you can join them and have a real influence on social life in BC and CSR activities.