Raw Material Planner

As the largest pureplay adhesives company in the world, H.B.
Fuller's (NYSE: FUL) innovative, functional coatings, adhesives and sealants enhance the quality, safety and performance of products people use every day.
Founded in 1887, with 2023 revenue of $3.5 billion, our mission to Connect What Matters is brought to life by more than 7,000 global team members who collaborate with customers across more than 30 market segments in over 140 countries to develop highly specified solutions that enable customers to bring world-changing innovations to their end markets.Position Overview:The Raw Material Planner reports within the Supply Chain Organization and has a primary responsibility to arrange optimal and economical coverage of needs of raw materials, packaging materials, and finished goods from external suppliers or H.B.
Fuller affiliates from other regions.Primary Responsibilities: Determination of demand and procurement of materials for production according to planned production or forecast, in line with product formulations and according to sourcing strategy.Ensure on time availability of materials aligned with production plan demand.Manages Stock levels for raw materials and packaging in co-operation with Supply Chain Manager and Warehouse.Interfaces with Sourcing and other supply chain functions – namely Production Scheduling, to align processes and potential improvements.Attending meetings with suppliers (operational topics to be discussed with own responsibility, higher level topics in accordance with sourcing management).Data analysis and reporting (forecasts, inventory level development, slow moving's, turnover statistics, etc.
)Supplier Complaint/Claim processing and follow up.Consignment stock settlement (if applicable).Definition of safety stocks using the company tools - GIB - and aligned with business strategy.Responsible to maintain data integrity in SAP for the materials under his/her responsibility.Minimum Requirements:Finished Apprenticeship, ideally business administrationMin.
2-3 years job experience in purchasing or sourcing position.Language skills: Proficiency in Portuguese and English, further language such as German would be a plus.Computer skills: familiar with SAP, Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook.Personal skills: teamworking, accountable, reliable, persistent, good communicator, very good sense of time; ability to work under timely pressure, capacity to prioritize.#LI-SC1#LI-Onsite