Latin america parent supply chain planner – Barueri/SP

SP | São Paulo
Efetivo (CLT)
Administrador
Comércio Exterior
Engenheiro Agrícola
Engenheiro Agrônomo
Marketing
Tecnólogo em Agroindústria
Tecnólogo em Agronegócio

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze demand, translate into supply plan and acreage plans by production location
• Liaise with commercial crop planners to ensure operational efficiency, End to End alignment and agility in reacting to changes in demand
• Communicate regularly updated needs to production locations
• Create and maintain production plan in systems, and promote best use of systems by other stakeholders to make process effective and efficient
• Collaborate with cross-regional supply contacts and ensure plan feasibility
• Regularly seek feedback from field operations teams, identify/implement improvement opportunities, validate the regulatory requirements and certification needed.
• Manage inventory and discard for assigned crop(s)
• Sign-off of the PS Production plan with the local Supply Chain Team.
• Cross sourcing contract sign-off.
• Validate the agronomic fit of the PS production with SPRC team.
• Identify and develop Parent Seed Planning strategy in Latin America
• Analyze and recommend optimum inventory levels, planning factors and sign-off with the local Supply Chain Team.
• Liaise with research team to coordinate seed transfer activities
• Coordinate end-to-end process activities for a successful commercial launch process
• Participate in commercial product lifecycle process to understand business needs and implement specific actions to ensure they are met
• Represent parent seed in regional productivity efforts and facilitate process improvement
• Communicate deviations in the E2E process during the IBP monthly cycle and impacts to launch volumes.
• Implement supply chain management techniques to proactively monitor rough cut capacity plans for conditioning, treating, and delivery progress.  Lead Parent Control Towers, Parent Playbook Meetings and pre/post-mortem activities.
• Coordinate with parent sourcing contacts on proper goal setting for parent delivery dates and monitor RCCP.
• Monitor order fulfillment metrics and generate dashboards to ensure the parent team is successfully meeting SPSC Goals.
• Serve as main contact within the region and run Control Towers to ensure collaboration, communication, alignment, issue identification and mitigation.
• Lead parent playbook meetings, define key processes, and update team on progress/issues.
• Communicate any deviation in the PS production during the IBP monthly cycle and could impact the CY+2.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Ag Business, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, or related field of study is required
• Technical Skills:
  • 5+ years of Supply Chain or Seed production related experience required
  • Demonstrated advanced proficiency with SAP, Microsoft Excel and SQL databases
  • Knowledge of Seed Field operations/Processing/Quality and production plant operations
  • Ability to organize data, perform analysis, and develop dashboards to inform and effectively communicate insights to stakeholders
  • Team skills with ability to work and interact with people from diverse backgrounds, cross-functionally and cross-regionally
  • Fluency in English
  • Exemplify Corteva values and contribute positive to team culture.
  • Proactive and willing to learn and take on extra responsibility