Operational Planner

Job Summary

Do you want to work with production- and material planning in a high-tech production environment?

Tetra Pak Packaging Material Sunne AB produces Tetra Rex and Gable Top products, a well-known package for liquid foods. Our production consists of converting paperboard to packages through three operations: Coating, Printing and Side sealing. 

Sunne hosts the largest Tetra Pak factory of TR/GT-products with over 1,6 billion packages sold every year. 

As an Operational planner you play an important part of the value chain from Suppliers of materials to the Customer and are responsible for orders being produced on time and in full for customers around the world. 

The position is permanent and based in Sunne.

What you will do

• Plan the Semi-material production (coated paper board) based on forecast from Tetra Pak Sunne, Imatra and Taiwan factories. 
• Order base material (paper board) and other materials (pallets and wrapping) from suppliers.
• Operational planning of production orders in the Side sealing process according to customer need and most optimal way to produce. 
• Collaborate with EMEA planning hub (capacity and material planning) and Supplier management regarding material availability and collaborate if there is supply or capacity issues.
• Manage communication with internal and external stakeholders (e.g. special requests, production changes, material status).
• Maintain planning master data in systems: P2, P2 planning and SAP.
• Be part of the factory’s WCM development and improve the planning processes.

We believe you have

In Tetra Pak we live by 3 leadership behaviours that is key for us to be successful. We believe that you are:

Dynamic
This position means great responsibilities and for both us and you to succeed you need to be a person with high accountability. Someone we can trust and rely on.
Since you will work close with both Production and Planning & Logistics you need to enjoy working in teams and be a good collaborator and communicator.

Capable
We believe that you have a post-secondary education or has experience from different positions in your career that helped you achieve competitive knowledge. 
Experience from planning and supply chain and understanding of production processes or processing industry is preferable.
The work mainly consists in working in Excel and SAP and a high knowledge in both is an advantage.
A high level in English and Swedish, both written and oral, is required. 

Productive
There are many things to do and to keep an eye on every day. To succeed you need to be self-going, motivated and get things done quickly.