Team Asset Planning

**Position Description**:
**Business Division**:
CSM Agchem

**Department**:
CSM AgChem Asset Planning

**Location**:
Vadodara

**Position Title**:Team Asset Planning

**Level**:Junior Management

**Reporting To**: Head AgChem Tech. Transfer

**Position Purpose**:

- The Manager Asset Planning role is responsible for supporting in planning for existing & new assets and ensuring maximum utilization of all assets by driving integration of demand and supply drivers to build a robust asset plan. The role involves capturing of customer needs, circuit planning, capturing of supply schedules for key materials, and logistics plans to ensure optimum product-asset allocation.**Strategic Responsibilities**:

- Translate business requirements to an asset plan and provide inputs to the production plan
- Ensure efficient allocation of products to existing and new assets so as to maximize asset allocation and asset utilization
- Design and develop a PS&OP (Profit, Sales & Operations Planning) process and ensure compliance to process with the business units
- Identify and develop methodology to synthesize various sources of demand (baseline statistical analysis, customer incentive plans, actual booked orders, product mix, and market intelligence) to generate a single unified demand plan
- Identify and develop methodology to synthesize various sources of supply (Evaluate material supply and overall capacity available in the network, circuit planning)
- Maintain statistical data and models that are needed as inputs and parameters into the planning processes

**Operational Responsibilities**:

- Manage the specific plant level considerations to generate realistic circuit plans
- Manage planning for new assets in line with business requirements through active collaboration with detailed engineering & projects execution teams
- Support in implementation and roll out of monthly demand and supply meetings to understand roadblocks and potential opportunities to optimize margin
- Lead stakeholders in supply constraint situations and facilitate an effective decision making process
- Plan for contingent & immediate orders necessitating changes in schedules and maximizing asset utilization
- Support projects to address deviations in supply and demand processes using continuous improvement models
- Provide structured feedback to business units on forecasting accuracy and suggest areas of improvement

**Financial Responsibilities**:

- Minimize conversion cost and loss order by effectively optimally allocating products to asset
- Establish annual budget for Asset Planning team and ensure that the team operates within the budget

**People Responsibilities**:

- Recommend initiatives for building requisite skills & competencies through focused professional development and capability building initiatives for the team
- Review workforce capacity gaps within the team and ensure timely recruitment in alignment with Corporate HR policies
- Actively sponsor, in conjunction with the Senior Management Team, the performance management process of the team
- Ensure stability & sustainability through a robust succession planning process to meet current & future staffing requirements of the team
- Recognize & reward excellent performers & affirm key contributions of employees toward the achievement of goals & objectives
- Inspire & motivate employees through demonstrated commitment to PI’s values, vision & mission and exemplifying effective leadership, initiative and persistence needed to accomplish goals and objectives

**Education Qualification**:

- Chemical Engineering from a reputed institute
- PG - MBA/PGDM Graduate (Operations)

**Work Experience**:

- 5-10 years of experience in Asset Planning, Statistical Forecasting, Business Forecasting

**Industry to be Hired from**:

- Agri, Pharma, Fine Chemicals industry**Functional Competencies**:

- Experience in asset and circuit planning
- Knowledge of SAP
- Analytical Skills

**Interaction Complexity and Team Work**:
**Interaction
**Frequency**

**Purpose of Interaction**

**Internal**:

Business Development Team, Manufacturing Strategy Team, Operations Team, Site Heads (JMB and PNL), Sourcing Team, Team EHS Assurance
As an when required