Overview

In this role you lead a Production Planning team within Essity’s Professional Hygiene Supply Planning organization to ensure reliable material availability and planning excellence. You will guide day-to-day team operations, coach planners, and support the transformation journey toward digitalized, standardized planning. You’ll partner across functions to drive continuous improvement and robust business continuity in a general, collaborative setting. This is a hands-on leadership role with a clear impact on supply chain performance and transformation.

Responsabilidades

- Lead and develop a team of Production Planners, fostering a collaborative, high-performing environment
- Ensure effective execution of planning activities to secure product availability and optimize inventory, service, and working capital
- Act as main liaison between the Supply Planning Hub and internal/external stakeholders; facilitate alignment and visibility
- Drive planning performance by monitoring KPIs, performing root cause analyses, and implementing sustainable improvements




- Support transformation and digitalization efforts by adopting digital tools, standardized processes, and new ways of working

Requisitos principales

- Bachelor's degree in relevant field
- Minimum 3 years in Supply Planning, Materials Planning, Production Planning, Inventory Management, or related functions
- Experience leading people or developing others
- Strong root-cause analysis, decision-making in fast-moving environments
- Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills
- Strong analytical ability with advanced Excel and experience with reporting/visualization tools such as Power BI
- Experience with SAP planning solutions (APO, IBP, S/4HANA) or equivalent systems
- Understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes
- Continuous improvement mindset in a dynamic, international environment
- Fluent in English (written and spoken)

- communication
- influencing
- stakeholder management
- advanced Excel
- Power BI
- SAP planning solutions (APO, IBP, S/4HANA)

📌 Production Planning Team Leader - Essity (Barcelona)
🏢 Essity
📍 Barcelona