Coatings Material and Production Planner

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Date: Jul 27, 2026

Location: Lahore, PK

Company: AkzoNobel

About AkzoNobel

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today – while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

For more information please visit www.akzonobel.com

Job Purpose

The role requires a comprehensive understanding of existing and future capacity plans/constraints at the manufacturing plant and distribution network, and knowledge of how production capacity can be flexed to meet demand.
Responsible for the planning of raw materials, ensuring that the production plan can be executed. Through close contact with procurement and suppliers you ensure a solid supplier relationship and performance.
Development of an optimal short (13-weeks) and long term (24 months) factory production plan to fulfill the market demand while considering the factory capacity and constraints
High-level understanding of the trade-offs between service, inventory and costs.
Manage exceptions and all activities related to material planning to ensure availability for the master production plan in line with MRP parameters and supplier contracts.
Ensure master data correctness & proper housekeeping of transactional data.
Ensure good communication and integration with other planning teams, manufacturing (scheduling), logistics, customer care and other stakeholders. Drive MDI meeting & gate
keeping meetings with other departments and support with providing relevant KPI’s to
measure performance. Escalate material availability issues to procurement according to the guidelines.
Support projects and process improvement to enhance performance and efficiency of the required planning activities (SLOBs, Inventories and Service across scope site / supply points).

Key Accountabilities

Production and Material Planning
Release production orders to the site in line with agreements made with the site. Review schedule adherence and drive improvement.
Responsible on planning raw materials and, ensuring the production plan can be executing. Close connection with procurement and supplier on request.
Manage expectations and activities related to material planning to ensure availability for production plan in line with MRP parameters.
Manage reduction and prevention of slow and obsolete stock (raw & pack). Ensure rework and scrapping at the site/primary DC.
Inputs to inventory strategy including safety stock settings on raw & pack materials for existing, new and phase-out products.
Manage demand exceptions with Scheduler and SP Manager. Support the site schedulers and site with analyses when needed to create visibility.
Work together with customer service / sales to understand customer requirements and incorporate this in the production plan.
Drive gate keeping meetings with the other departments and support with providing relevant KPI’s to measure performance.
Provide impact analysis when needed to show the impact of decisions or scenarios to the plan. Support on reporting where necessary.

Experience

At least 3-year experience in Supply Planning in FMCG, Paint/Coating or Retail

Education

University Education (e.g. Engineering, Business Administration, Economics, Supply Chain
Good knowledge of Supply Planning in SAP and BI
Experience on IBP processes, Advanced Supply Planning tools
Project and Change Management skills
Experience of coordinating teams and managing stakeholders
Focused on results
Good problem-solving skills, able to identify and structure issues, run accurate analyses and synthesize recommendations.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills, flexibility and able to work under-pressure.
Fluent and able to work in English and business requirement language

At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

Requisition ID: 55252

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