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Business Planning Manager (12-month FTC)
Argent Energy · Amsterdam
What you will do
The Business Planning Manager is accountable for:
In charge of driving the full optimisation of the long term strategic planning (18 months rolling forecast) based on business requirements and assets development
Optimizing plant output and ensure all risks mitigations are in place based on strong financial analysis
Leading and embedding the end-to-end Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process across the Group, ensuring customer demand is met through alignment of commercial requirements, operational capacity, inventory strategy and financial objectives.
The governance, preparation, coordination and facilitation of the S&OP cycle, ensuring robust cross-functional decision making between Sustainability, Commercial, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance and Logistics, and providing clear visibility of risks, constraints, trade-offs and required actions.
Data integrity, reporting accuracy and scenario modelling that underpin S&OP decisions, enabling timely escalation and executive decision making.
This is a 12-month fixed-term contract.
What you will do
Lead, coach and develop the Planning team to deliver consistent high performance across sites.
Own the group planning framework and cadence, ensuring demand, supply, inventory and production plans are aligned to customer requirements, capacity and financial targets.
Ensure any decision are based on financial numbers
Ensure the quality, integrity and governance of planning master data and reporting, enabling accurate visibility, performance management and decision support.
Facilitate cross-functional S&OP discussions and decision making, ensuring risks, constraints and options are clearly articulated and appropriately escalated.
Build effective interfaces with Commercial, Operations, Trading, Sustainability, Procurement to anticipate changes (e.g., feedstock, customer demand, NPD/NPI) and ensure smooth planning transitions.
Define and embed inventory policy (e.g., safety stock, min/max parameters) and monitor adherence to support service, working capital and operational stability.
Drive continuous improvement, standard operating procedures and performance reporting (KPIs/visual management) to improve service, reliability and efficiency.
Drive standardised planning ways of working across sites, continuous improvement and digitalisation (including effective use of Oracle/ERP), and support strategic change initiatives through to implementation.
Own planning-system ways of working, including ongoing development of Oracle/ERP and related digital tools to improve planning effectiveness.
Drive/Assess strategic impact of our sustainability route