Overview

As Materials Planning Team Leader, you will guide a team of Materials Planners to ensure material availability across the network while optimizing service, inventory, and cost. You will drive planning excellence, support business continuity, and contribute to Essity's supply planning transformation. In a general, collaborative setting, you’ll partner with internal and external stakeholders, foster continuous improvement, and help shape future materials planning through digitalization and best practices. This role offers leadership development in an international environment with a meaningful impact on supply chain performance.

Responsabilidades

- Lead and develop a team of Materials Planners through coaching and performance discussions
- Ensure effective execution of planning activities to secure product availability across the network
- Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to align on planning and decision-making
- Monitor KPIs, conduct root-cause analysis, and drive continuous improvement
- Support digitalization, standardized processes,



and new ways of working within the transformation journey

Requisitos principales

- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- Minimum 3 years in supply planning, materials planning, production planning, inventory management, or related functions
- Experience leading people or developing others
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making in complex, fast-moving environments
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Strong analytical capabilities with advanced Excel and experience with reporting/visualization tools like 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
- Fluent in English

- leadership and people development
- cross-functional collaboration
- stakeholder influence
- Advanced Excel
- Power BI
- SAP planning solutions (APO, IBP, S/4HANA)

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