Supply chain manager Jobs in Essen

Morgan Latif is a specialist leadership search & development consultancy. We help our clients across the Medical & Dental Technology, Packaging, Consumer, E-mobility, and Industrial Technology sectors to deliver on their transformation and diversity goals. Our mission is to combine traditional recruitment and coaching methods with new technology, to provide a tailored and innovative solution to our clients and candidates.

Position Overview

Morgan Latif has been exclusively retained by a global client within the Industrial Technology sector to appoint a team build out of Strategic Supply Chain Planners across various key sites in Germany. This pivotal role will be instrumental in shaping a resilient, forward-thinking planning strategy across multiple production sites.

This is a highly visible position that serves as a central interface between Product Management, Supply Chain, Production, Purchasing, and Sales. The successful candidate will drive long-term, integrated planning with a focus on transparency, capacity balancing, and sustainable delivery capability.

Key Responsibilities

• Align demand and capacity planning across sites as part of a robust Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process.
• Coordinate inputs from Sales, Production, and Purchasing to support cross-functional decision-making.
• Identify and mitigate supply risks while managing buffer stocks and lead times.
• Collaborate closely with production teams to ensure feasible capacity and resource allocation.
• Contribute to strategic site planning through capacity analysis within various Centers of Competence (CoCs).
• Support outsourcing and make-or-buy strategies in cooperation with Purchasing and Production.
• Enable long-term capacity planning to inform investment and resource decisions.
• Actively participate in the New Product Introduction (NPI) process by providing planning and SCM input from early stages.
• Develop and enhance cross-divisional planning tools and models to improve efficiency and data integration.

Qualifications & Experience

We look forward to receiving your application. Please note that, due to the high volume of applications we receive, we’re unfortunately unable to respond to each one individually.