Planning Analyst

Planning Analyst

At Ardagh our Application services teams are pivotal for our business success, ensuring seamless planning processes, efficient system configurations, and expert project management, while collaborating across departments; and aligning solutions with diverse stakeholders.

Your Impact:

• Development and Optimization: Supporting and developing IT integrated business planning and production sequencing solutions, while enhancing current processes within SAP ECC and integrated planning solutions such as SAP IBP, SAP APO, Blue Yonder and ORSoft as well as designing IT solutions in partnership with business stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Project Management: Overseeing project and sub-project management within the IT framework and coordinating with external service providers.
• Application Process Supervision and Analysis: Managing integrated business planning and production scheduling processes at the 2nd and 3rd levels, while performing detailed process and technical analyses of business operations.
• Rollouts and Support: Providing guidance on projects and implementing enhancements based on standard software, while also handling testing, commissioning, documentation, and collaborating with global teams for rollouts.
• Process Improvement: Leveraging your expertise to enhance existing processes and past roll-outs to ensure we foster a culture of continuous improvement and process optimization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, informatics, or comparable field
• Relevant experience in supporting and customizing a complex SAP system environment and processes mapped in it; SAP PP/MM/SD/LE is a bonus
• Relevant experience in supporting and customizing SAP APO and IBP applications or other comparable application
• Relevant experience in supporting data integration modeling using cloud integration solutions
• Relevant experience in understanding complex integrated business planning and production planning/sequencing processes
• Fluent in (written and spoken) English
• Willingness to travel up to 25% of your working time

Skills Needed for Success in this role:

• Curiosity: You have a driving force behind proactive exploration, continual learning, and the pursuit of innovative solutions to enhance planning solutions.
• Analytical: You can analyze data and patterns to derive meaningful insights and inform strategic decisions.
• Cultural Intelligence & Communication: You understand and effectively navigate diverse cultural contexts to foster mutual understanding and collaborations.
• Innovative: You can creatively apply emerging technologies and best practices to elevate SAP and integrated business planning solutions

 If this opportunity aligns with your career goals & trajectory, we would be delighted to receive your application!
 

Some of your Benefits

• Diversity & Inclusion
• We focus on providing an inclusive environment and recognize our diversity contributes to our success.
• Flexible Work Models
• We allow for flexible work models to ensure both professional and personal success.
• International Opportunities
• Grow in your career through international exchange and global job opportunities.
• Sustainability & Social Commitment
• We support social and sustainable projects and encourage employee involvement.
• Personal Development
• We offer a variety of trainings to ensure you can develop in your career.

About Ardagh Group
Ardagh Group is a global leader in metal and glass packaging solutions, producing packaging for the world’s leading brands. We trace our roots all the way back to the Irish Glass Bottle Company, founded in 1932. Since then we have grown rapidly to a team of more than 20,000 people with revenues of almost $10 billion. Today we have a presence across Europe, Africa and the Americas.

• Did you know that Ardagh produce many of the beverage cans and bottles you drink your favourite beverages from?
• Did you know we produce metal and glass packaging which are permanent materials, meaning they can be infinitely recycled without any loss of quality?
• Did you know we produce more than 160 million containers per day?

Ardagh is passionate about sustainability and have a reputation for innovation. We push the boundaries of what’s possible, pioneering new production methods, new design techniques and new ways to recycle and save energy. Our aim is to reduce any negative environmental impact whilst remaining economically sustainable and socially responsible.

We believe that the success of our business depends on the success of our people. We strive to create working environments where our employees feel valued, can work to their full potential, and where their achievements are celebrated.

Here at Ardagh, we offer exciting and rewarding opportunities for talented and creative people. If you have ambition and want to make an impact with your career, come and join our team, you’ll enjoy the journey!