Job Title Senior Planner, Master Scheduling

Division L’Oréal Consumer Product Division

Location: Somerset, NJ

Reports To: Senior Manager, Master Scheduling 

Who We Are: 

For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted its energy, innovation, and scientific excellence solely to one business: Beauty. Our goal is to offer each and every person around the world the best of beauty in terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity and responsibility to satisfy all beauty needs and desires in their infinite diversity. 

As part of the L’Oréal Dermatological Beauty division at L’Oreal, our mission is to help everyone in their quest for healthy and beautiful skin. Our division is the world leader in dermo-cosmetics by adding health to beauty. Our brands portfolio includes CeraVe, La Roche-Possay, Vichy, SkinCeuticals, L’Oreal Paris, Maybelline, Garnier offering a range of skincare and liquid make-up products to respond to all expectations linked to beauty and health of the skin.

What You Will Learn:

Build a balanced production plan over a 12-month rolling period based on the consolidated customer demands by the GBSC and the information on capacity, industrial constraints, components/raw material availability and reactivity 

• Define with the Global Brand Supply Chain (GBSC) team key priorities and parameters for production planning, taking into consideration the relevant supply methods, reactivity levels and the stage of the product life stage.
• Analyze and challenge the plant performance in terms of service, capacity, and plan realization.
• Build rolling weekly plan sequence and collaborate with Short Term Planner (STP) on changes affecting the firm horizon.
• Be able to assess pros and cons of possible action plans related to production and decide which action will provide best solution for the business and plant using knowledge gathered from cross-functional teams. Understand impacts the decisions will have and communicate to appropriate impacted teams.
• Present on catalogue, service, risks, and projects in Supply Reviews, top risk meetings and leadership reviews that focus on action plans related to recovering/protecting service.
• Coordinate with Launch team to ensure correct prioritization and planning of launches and insources.
• Influence and engage entire MPS team to follow best practices and set standard of excellence.
• Communicate clearly and consistently to internal procurement groups on prioritizations, pull forwards and plan changes to support service for the plant.
• Build trust with cross functional teams using clear communication, sensitivity, sense of urgency.
• Maintain 98% service across entire catalogue by balancing capacity, material constraints, line down time/planned maintenance, and launches.
• Root cause analysis on gap to target stock with action plans to close the gap to target stock. Work collaboratively with cross functional teams and hold them accountable to action plan.
• Continue to update master data in APO in 1081, create SIDs, blocked horizon for existing and new launches as needed.
• Review discontinuation requests monthly from business, share with procurement to then communicate liabilities for any stop ship dates within a rolling 6 month period.
• Update and publish service flash, weekly alerts, G2T and daily ACH/ADH reports. Ensure that reason codes are clear, consistent and include next steps to mitigate risks.
• Assist in annual planning of budget within regularly managed catalogue.

What We Are Looking For:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering or Supply Chain discipline preferred.
• 1 – 3 years of experience in a high-performance manufacturing facility, cosmetics industry preferred.
• Advanced Excel strongly recommended (Pivot tables, VLOOKUPs)
• Must have strong written/verbal and communication and analytical skills; ability to handle multiple tasks and priorities simultaneously; manage change, provide program management and achieve results.
• Proven ability to develop short and long-range plans that meet established objectives and contribute to the overall goals and mission of the company.
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to interface with plant and corporate personnel at various organizational levels and external suppliers.

What’s In It For You:

• Competitive Benefit Package (Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, Pension Plan)
• Hybrid Work Policy (3 Days in Office, 2 Days Work from Home) 
• Flexible Time Off (Paid Company Holidays, Paid Vacation, Vacation Buy Program, Volunteer Time, Summer Fridays & More!)
• Access to Company Perks (VIP Access to L’Oréal’s Internal Shop for Discounted Products, Monthly Mobile Allowance)
• Learning & Development Opportunities for Career Progression (Unlimited Access to E-learnings, Lunch & Learn Sessions, Mentorship Programs, & More!)
• Employee Resource Groups (Think Tanks and Innovation Squads)
• Access to Mental Health & Wellness Programs 

Don’t meet every single requirement? At L'Oréal, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and innovative workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the qualifications listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways! You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!

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