Supply Chain Planner (all genders)

At BARFER'S, we produce dog and cat food in the barf category (organic, species-appropriate raw food) in Germany. The more than 280 products produced in Berlin are sold via our online shop and a total of seven of our own stores in Berlin, Potsdam and Hamburg. Why did we found BARFER'S?

• To invent barf products of a new quality and variety and to revolutionise the pet market for the health of our four-legged friends.
• To produce products according to new standards and to keep the entire production chain under our own control.

This mission and shared conviction for the barf nutrition of our beloved four-legged friends unites the 100-strong BARFER'S team.

Become part of our pack and join us in making a lasting change in the pet industry for the health of our four-legged friends!

In this exciting position, you will have a holistic view at the entire supply chain. You will play a key role in ensuring that operational supply chain activities run smoothly and efficiently whilst reporting directly to the Chief Supply Chain Officer.

Your strong communication skills and analytical thinking will help you to effectively align the activities of marketing, purchasing, production and distribution logistics into an integrated supply chain planning. Your aim is to avoid excess inventory and out-of-stocks while ensuring on time delivery. You actively contribute to the development and implementation of the overall supply chain strategy and are responsible for the planning, monitoring and optimization of material and information flows along the entire supply chain up to delivery to our customers.

The tasks include:

• Demand planning: analyzing historical sales data, market trends and sales activities to forecast future demand for finished products and raw materials. Collaboration with all relevant stakeholders to obtain the necessary information is key.
• Rough planning of production: Based on the demand forecasts, you will create resource plans as well as rough production schedules for the products needed during upcoming 1-6 months. By doing so, you will help production to optimize utilization of resources and provide valuable input for the procurement department.
• Inventory management: You monitor the availability of raw materials and finished products to ensure that demand can always be met. You will continuously improve measures to ensure optimal order and stock quantities.
• Capacity planning: By monitoring and analyzing the capacity utilization of the production, shipping and transport departments, you will identify bottlenecks and overloads at an early stage and take appropriate measures to adjust and optimize them.
• Reporting: You regularly create reports with relevant key performance indicators (KPIs) for the executive management regarding risks, performance and optimization measures.
• Risk management and optimization: You proactively identify supply chain risks and drive the development and implementation of mitigation measures. This also includes the continuous improvement of supply chain processes.
• Shipping and transport coordination: To optimize delivery reliability and costs, you plan and coordinate pick-up and shipping activities from the production site to the distribution centers and customers together with our transport partners.

This position requires a flexible way of working as it takes place both at the company headquarters in Berlin (Germany) and at one of our production sites (planned site near) Poznań (Poland). Candidates should be willing to travel regularly between these two locations to ensure effective collaboration and coordination. Home office is possible in line with this role.

The successful candidate should have the following skills and qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in logistics, business administration, supply chain management or similar professional training
• At least 3 years of professional experience in supply chain management or related areas
• Language skills: very good English and Polish, in addition German is an advantage but no must
• Proven knowledge of end-to-end supply chain processes, particularly in demand forecasting, capacity planning, inventory management and operational planning
• Experience in working with supply chain planning software and relevant ERP systems
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret complex data to make informed decisions and create reports
• Project management skills to drive optimizations
• Knowledge and experience in lean management an advantage
• Strong communication and teamwork skills to work effectively with various stakeholders at all levels of the organization

Work - Life Balance:

You have 30 days holiday a year and best of all, we give you an extra day off on your birthday!

Flexible working hours and hybrid working.

Wellbeing:

We offer you a permanent employment contract.

You'll find everything you need here - from drinks and snacks to table football and table tennis, as well as the opportunity to chill out and work indoors and outdoors. We don't sit in impersonal open-plan offices, but in smaller offices where you can work undisturbed. Dogs are welcome, of course, and they even have access to 2 fenced-in exercise areas. One of them is our rock garden, where you can also work comfortably outside.

Personal development:

A dynamic and innovative working environment in which you can contribute and realise your own potential, as well as internal and external training courses for your further development await you with us.

Team feeling:

We celebrate our successes together as a team at Christmas parties, team events and much more.

Discounts:

All employees benefit from our 30% employee discount!

Treat yourself to whatever you want with our BARFER'S card worth 50 euros a month.

We also participate in the "Deutschlandticket" .

Sounds exciting?

Then send us your complete application documents including your salary expectations and the earliest possible starting date.

We look forward to hearing from you!

(We at BARFER'S are proud of the diversity of our team. No decisions are made on the basis of skin colour, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age, either during recruitment or during the employment relationship. BARFER'S offers a safe workplace and takes action against discrimination and harassment of any kind.)