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Do you have experience in planning within logistics or production and want to work in a coffee roastery? Are you analytical, structured, and passionate about cross-functional collaboration? In the role of production planner at Arvid Nordquist, you will be offered a challenging and exciting position where you become part of a dynamic and successful team and make a difference from day one!

About the position

This is a full-time consulting assignment lasting until at least September 2025. You will be employed by Bravura and work as a consultant at Arvid Nordquist. There is a possibility for extension of the assignment.

About the company

Arvid Nordquist is a Stockholm-based family business with about 300 employees across the Nordics, passionate about offering the best taste experiences and products. Since its inception in 1884, the company has focused on delivering quality in its products, which include coffee, wine, beer, and food. Their range includes strong international brands that offer high quality combined with careful production and reduced impact on people and the environment. The primary workplace will initially be at Arvid Nordquist's headquarters in Solna Business Park. The building in Solna, which has housed both the trading company and coffee roastery since the 1960s, has now become too small for the company, and Arvid Nordquist is in the process of building a new modern coffee roastery, warehouse, and office in Järfälla, with a move planned for 2025. Please read more at: https://www.arvidnordquist.se/om-arvid-nordquist/nya-rosteriet/ (https://www.arvidnordquist.se/om-arvid-nordquist/nya-rosteriet/).

Responsibilities

In this role, you will play a central part in the planning from green bean to finished packaged coffee. You and another production planner will be responsible for ensuring an efficient production process and material procurement, both in the short and long term, based on capacity and set service level and inventory goals. Your assignment also includes supply responsibility for all inventory points with transfers between our Swedish warehouses and to Finland. You will maintain KPIs and analyze and draw conclusions from them. You will also be an important part of the development work in the current operations and related to the new roastery. The most important interfaces are primarily production, warehousing, and coffee purchasing, but also marketing and sales. In this role, you will belong to the “Supply Chain Coffee” department and be part of a team of ten employees, including functions such as Demand Planning, Supply Planning, and warehousing. • Ensure production plan and demand planning based on the business goals regarding service level, inventory turnover rate • Planning of raw coffee into the roastery and operational purchasing of packaging and input materials • Active and proactive deviation management, analysis, and coordination of the production flow against the production plan • Drive dialogue with external parties such as packaging suppliers and external warehouses • Actively work with item management in SAP, such as master data, MRP parameters, etc., for produced and purchased items • Drive development of interfaces, processes, responsibilities, and systems tools

Education, experience, and personal qualities

• Secondary education, preferably with relevant post-secondary education in logistics or similar • Work experience in logistics planning, preferably with a focus on production and material planning • Good system knowledge in MS Office, particularly in Excel • Very good knowledge of Swedish and English, both spoken and written • Experience with SAP is a plus • Experience in the FMCG sector and/or regulated industries such as food or pharmaceuticals is a plus In this role, you need to stand out with strong problem-solving skills and clear communication. You are results-oriented, see the consequences of your work efforts, and strive to deliver high quality. As a key player in the team, you are driven, creative, and goal-oriented. Your ability to work structured and meticulously is crucial, especially when managing complex and rapidly changing production environments. Additionally, we value your ability to analyze and draw conclusions from data to drive continuous improvements. In this role, you will work closely with your team, making it important that you enjoy collaborating with others. In this recruitment, great emphasis will be placed on personal qualities.

Other information

Start: Immediately Location: Solna and Järfälla Salary: By agreement

We use a competency-based methodology in all recruitment processes to ensure unbiased selection. We also work with ongoing selection, which means we will remove the advertisement when enough candidates have applied. If you are shortlisted for the position, we will contact you for an initial phone interview. Regardless of whether you proceed in the process or not, you will receive feedback on your application.

If you have questions about the position or your application, please feel free to contact our support by emailing [email protected] or calling 010-171 47 10, and we will assist you. Please specify which position you are inquiring about. We recommend that you submit your application promptly as we conduct ongoing selection.

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