Regional Inventory and Demand Planner

Our Inventory and Planning department, within Product Area Rock Tools, ensures that we have the right foundation for delivering products and meeting forecasts of customer demands by analyzing data, spotting trends and planning the most efficient ways to produce our tools. We are now looking for a Regional Inventory and Demand Planner to join our team in Sandviken. Welcome to a dynamic position with excellent opportunities to enhance your strategic planning skills and build a network spread worldwide.

Job Summary
As a Regional Inventory and Demand Planner you interact with our sales teams in Europe, Russia and the Middle East to receive and estimate forecasts for incoming orders to be able to carry out production plans and to ensure the planning and analysis of relevant stock levels at various warehouses around the region. You spot trends, analyze data in a state of the art planning tool and undertake weekly operational plans, combined with looking into KPIs such as fill rate, order fulfillment, lead time, warehouse inventory levels and net working capital. Collaborating with our global partners and being a core sounding board for our sales organization within your designated geographic area is a major part of your responsibility, as is developing new ways of working with systems, processes and documentation.

Your profile
We are looking for someone with a degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics or Industrial Economy and a solid background from working with supply chain planning. Experience from conducting analysis, spotting trends and planning based on relevant findings is considered a plus in this position. You are a skilled user of Excel and have advanced knowledge in using the program for forecasting and production planning, while experience in the Logility Voyager Planning system is beneficial. As we interact globally you have excellent skills in English and Swedish, both in speaking and in writing, while skills in another European language, such as German, French or Spanish, are advantageous.

We are truly interested in your personal qualities, which are characterized by your analytical and strategic attitude and your ability to understand, plan and forecast numbers and statistics. You thrive on identifying problems and finding the best possible solutions and you embrace improvements by being creative and taking new initiatives. In line with the Sandvik spirit, you set ambitious targets and deliver on promises to ensure high-quality logistic flows. Additionally, you use your excellent communication skills to build and maintain trust within your networks and to inspire, as well as challenge, your stakeholders in performing accurate reporting and planning.

We are a company with an open-minded culture, actively working to create a workplace that is characterized by diversity and inclusion.

Contact information
For further information about this position, please contact:
Daniel Remstam, recruiting manager, +46 (0)26-262 121

Union contacts - Sweden
Per Hedman, Unionen, + 46 (0)26-265 014
Rickard Andreasson, Akademikerföreningen, +46 (0)26-265 183

Send your application no later than 29 August 2016. Read more about Sandvik and apply at www.sandvik.se/career, Job ID: 345915.

For more information about the recruitment process, please contact HR Services, +46 (0)20 261 444.

Recruitment Specialist
Michael Ings