Warehouse Planner

**Position Snapshot**
- Nestlé Italy, Milan HQ (Assago)
- Background in Economics or Engineering
- Fluent in Italian and English
- ** Fixed-term contract (1 year)**:

- Nestlé welcomes people with disabilities

**Position Summary**

Plan and control all warehouse related activities, to drive warehouse performances optimization by:

- ensuring required storage and loading capacity
- driving service level improvement to customers and carriers
- optimizing handling and storage costs

**A day in the life of Factory Engineering Manager**
- Build Finished Products and Pack Materials Inbound Flows forecast over the medium-long term horizon, adjusting the forecast on the short term for changes on the factories production and line loading plans, to plan and ensure required unloading capacity to follow inbound flows peaks
- Build Finished Products Outbound Flows forecast over the medium-long term horizon, adjusting the forecast on the short term for changes on the demand, to plan and ensure required loading capacity to serve Customers and Carriers
- On the short term, manage outbound flows loading grid, ensuring the required capacity for each market/warehouse with the adequate flexibility to increase service level, and take corrective actions to cover exceptional requirements (extra loading slots)
- Control Loading time and Truck Turn Time based on the appointment grid, to drive the improvement for all markets and carriers, supporting the 3PL supplier to find improvement opportunities and reduce idle time both for carriers and for forklift drivers, thus improving service level and reductig handling costs
- Plan and control Loading Docks Capacity utilization, to ensure required capacity and flexibility optimizing assets rotation (Docks)
- Plan and control Truck Parking Capacity utilization, to ensure required capacity and flexibility optimizing assets rotation (Yard - Parkings)
- Define and periodically review the ABC stock policy, adjusting according to stock profile or products portfolio/innovation products, and by order profile, with the aim to optimize storage capacity saturation and increase most efficient storage location rotations to optimize handling productivity
- Define and periodically review the warehouse Bin Capacity, Put-Away and Retreival Strategies for existing and new products, with the aim to optimize storage capacity saturation and increase most efficient storage location rotations to optimize handling productivity, optimizing forklifts routing
- Proactive Cooperate with different fuctions (Factory Supply Planning, IMSP, Export and Local Demand Management and Customer Service, T-HUB) to analyze medium term stock forecast by market to ensure required storage capacity
- Monitor warehouse ageing stock, in order to proactively cooperate with DSP team to ensure freshness of products and reduce Bad Goods, and ensure flawless execution through 3PL suppliers of timely destruction.

**What will make you successful**
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to Influence
- Eye for details
- Ability to balance/challenge conflicting objectives
- Able to see the bigger picture beyond the scope of their role
- Able to challenge the status quo
- We are Nestlé. We are the Good food, Good life company._
- Good food, Good life is our promise, it is a daily commitment. It is only thanks to our people that we can make a difference and realize this belief: we call them Good People._
- At Nestlé, we believe that recognition, inclusion and valorization of diversity can make us grow both as individuals and as a company. This is why we promote a work environment, a business culture and a leadership model that guarantee equal opportunities for everyone and at all organizational levels. We believe diversity is a winning factor and we always encourage our people to share ideas and collaborate._
- Here at Nestlé you will also be able to be part of the Emotional Communities, groups of colleagues of different functions and seniorities who come together with the aim of spreading a corporate culture that allows everyone to freely express their passions and identities. LGBT +, Gender Balance, Young, Disability, Volunteering, Green, Multiculturalism are just some of the communities that you can be part of._
- Diversity is a fact, inclusion is a choice and we have chosen to be inclusive._