Planning Deployment Lead

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Date: Oct 15, 2025

Location: CN

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 

 

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Job Responsibilities

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Job Purpose

The deployment role is a key role in driving the Advanced Planning Transformation aiming to improve our supply planning processes to enabled optimized results in Service Level, Inventory position and Costs in our Supply Chain.

As key objective of the deployment planning lead, together with regional leads, is to drive maturity in the supply planning teams. Maturity is expressed in Master Data quality, process adherence and building capability in working with the new processes and system.

High-quality stakeholder management (many and highly diverse stakeholders) is essential. A standardized and uniform approach across regions is required to enable the APT objectives to its fullest.

Key Accountabilities

On a global scale, for all Paints & Coatings BUs and all Supply Regions, the planning deployment lead enables as part of the team of Advanced planning transformation Managers:

  • Implement & deployment of processes, governance, systems (SAP, APS and big data analytics), Masterdata and capability building in Planning.
  • Drive supply planning maturity program cross-region and cross-BU.
  • Drives touchless planning through correct Master data and their further automation.
  • Identify and manage key risks in the transition
  • Ensure transition and management of stakeholders and team members as seamless as possible
  • Lead the hypercare and stabilization of the team and processes after the transition  
  • Support delivering BU supply chain KPIs.

 

         Key Performance Indicators:

  • Production : PSP – Supply bias
  • Service: on time and in full targets (OTIF).
  • DIO / DOH : Inventory levels – maintain correct stock balance whilst adhering to operating working capital targets in days and in value
  • SLOBs: manage SLOBs with proactive reduction once there and preventive not to generate them

Key Activities

Key Activities

Experience

  • Years of experience: 5-15+ years in Supply Chain
  • Qualifications: MSc in Planning/Supply Chain, Engineering, Data Science, Econometrics or Business Administration.
  • Previous experience in: Demand planning, Supply Planning and S&OP / IBP; demonstrated hands-on impact in operations, planning and hands-on exposure to IT/ERP related projects
  • Certification in supply chain expertise (such as APICS CPIM / CSCP) and improvement (such as CI Lead Practitioner, Agile). Experience in project and program management.
  • Effective influencing, communication and engagement skills
  • Pro-active, autonomous, result driven, and target oriented execution of role while being a strong team player and knowing how to effectively engage with peers.
  • Strong experience in end-to-end performance measurement, identification & application of error metrics, root-cause analysis, etc.
  • Commercial understanding and business acumen. Experience to facilitate the overall company optimum.
  • Strong analytical and lateral thinking skills
  • Cross-functional and cross-cultural sensitivity, adaptability and experience
  • Ability to influence senior management as well as peer level: cross-function, Operational teams and COE teams.
  • Excellent written, presentation and verbal skills
  • Business Orientation, Change Management & Building Capability
  • Detailed and in depth understanding of ERP system set up (SAP), planning & production master data fields
  • Background in Advanced Planning Systems (APS) or demonstrated basic skills set to quickly learn and master APS.
  • Background in big data analytics and platforms or demonstrated basic skills set to quickly learn and master this.

Education

Education

Competencies

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Acquiring Information

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: 49231 

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