Inventory Planner

Inventory Planner

Miejsce pracy: Katowice

Your responsibilities

• Owning end-to-end inventory planning for assigned factories, creating and maintaining short and mid-term production plans that ensure optimal stock levels and high service performance.
• Analysing inventory parameters, identifying imbalances, and proactively adjusting min/max settings to align with agreed supply chain strategies and business targets.
• Monitoring and managing planning KPIs, driving continuous improvement initiatives through root cause analysis and the implementation of corrective actions.
• Identifying planning bottlenecks and capacity constraints, balancing technical and labour capacity considerations while factoring in system parameters, downtime, and active projects.
• Managing factory-to-factory product relocations end-to-end, ensuring full system readiness and material availability throughout the transition process.
• Preparing and communicating Master Production Schedule (MPS) snapshots and capacity reports to relevant stakeholders, ensuring full planning visibility across the organisation.
• Supporting product lifecycle activities including new product introductions and discontinuations, coordinating format class assignments and resolving related planning issues.
• Escalating critical availability risks and inventory issues for operational alignment meetings, ensuring timely resolution and cross-functional stakeholder engagement.

Our requirements

• 2+ years of experience in inventory planning within an end-to-end supply chain environment, with a solid understanding of production planning processes and inventory management principles.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex planning data, identify root causes, and implement effective and timely solutions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities, with experience collaborating across planning teams, factory operations, and other cross-functional partners.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines simultaneously, with strong time management skills and a results-driven approach to achieving planning KPIs.
• Experience working with planning and ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, or similar), with confidence in maintaining accurate data and generating planning reports.
• Customer-oriented mindset with the ability to understand downstream requirements and translate them into upstream planning decisions that improve service levels.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills, capable of reaching balanced agreements with diverse stakeholders while balancing short and long-term supply chain needs.
• A continuous improvement mindset, open to adopting new tools and methodologies, learning from outcomes, and contributing to process optimisation across the planning function.

What we offer

• Well-being culture: medical care with Medicover, private life insurance, and Sports card. But we went one step further by creating our own Capgemini Helpline offering therapeutical support if needed and the educational podcast "Let's talk about wellbeing" which you can listen to on Spotify.
• Access to over 70 training tracks with certification opportunities (e.g., GenAI, Excel, Business Analysis, Project Management) on our NEXT platform. Dive into a world of knowledge with free access to Education First languages platform, TED Talks and Udemy Business materials and trainings.
• Continuous feedback and ongoing performance discussions thanks to our performance management tool GetSuccess supported by a transparent performance management policy.
• Enjoy hybrid working model that fits your life - after completing onboarding, connect work from a modern office with ergonomic work from home, thanks to home office package (including laptop, monitor, and chair). Ask your recruiter about the details.

Benefits

• sharing the costs of sports activities
• private medical care
• life insurance
• no dress code
• parking space for employees
• extra social benefits
• redeployment package
• employee referral program
• charity initiatives
• access to courses e.g. Excel, VBA, RPA, Customer Care
• unlimited access to Udemy Business
• free chat/call with a therapist

Recruitment stages

• Interview with the recruiter
• Competency Tests/Language Verification
• Video call with a manager
• Final Decision

Your Role

As an Inventory Planner, you will be at the heart of ensuring product availability and optimal stock performance across global supply chains. Working closely with factory teams and global planning stakeholders, you will translate data into actionable inventory strategies that directly impact service levels and customer satisfaction. This is a role where analytical thinking meets real operational impact.

Capgemini Polska

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organizations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of over 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations.

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