Project Supply Chain Planner

Project Supply Chain Planner role at Information & Technology Management

Reference ID: R185268
• Updated: 08/29/2025

Overview

If you are passionate about supply chain operations, planning, and driving performance across complex networks, this is your opportunity to make a meaningful impact. These roles contribute directly to ensuring product availability, optimizing inventory, and enhancing customer satisfaction.

Roles We Are Looking For

• 3P Project Planner
• Supply Planner
• Additives Planner

3P Project Planner

The role focuses on tolling and turnkey plants within the E2E Performance Team to deliver KPI targets. The Planner will work with 3P suppliers to ensure finished goods availability based on production schedules and communicate delays or changes to the broader team. This is largely an operational and tactical role with some commercial knowledge required for inventory targets and reporting/data analytics.

A Successful Applicant Will Require

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to make timely decisions with incomplete and changing information
• Ability to root cause issues and take corrective actions quickly
• Customer/commercial focus
• Proactive thinking to improve/adjust the supply chain before disruptions
• Self-starter with Continuous Improvement mindset
• Technical skills to pick up new systems quickly: SAP APO/GSAP, DDMRP, and Microsoft Excel

Key Challenges

• Learning a planning system (DDMRP) and using it in daily work
• Managing changing customer expectations across market segments
• Coordinating with PLM and other teams for product launches and transitions
• Balancing inventory and delivery targets across multiple priorities
• Working virtually with 3P suppliers and contract holders

Business Dimensions

• 1 of a team of 8 focusing on planning tasks
• Based in Manila
• Customer-focused to understand how finished goods planning impacts customer experience
• Regular engagements with 3P suppliers, contract holders, and other planning teams
• Coordinate with Lubricants Supply Chain teams to identify value-saving opportunities
• Focus on reports and root-cause fixes to improve performance

Supply Planner

Pack finished goods planning from Shell-owned Lube Oil Blend Plants (LOBPs). The Supply Planner will manage the pack portfolio for 1–2 LOBPs in the North American Shell network, using planning systems to determine production quantities and ensure customer service metrics while balancing inventory for working capital optimization.

Additional Responsibilities for Supply Planner

• Manage inventory settings and prioritize orders to meet customer delivery targets
• Review monthly inventory targets and make trade-offs based on RDC capacity and customer expectations
• Coordinate deployment of pack and bulk finished goods between Shell sites
• Build truck-load shipments and manage movement of finished goods between RDCs and LOBPs
• Support the Deployment Inbox for Customer Ops to address product availability issues

Principal Accountabilities

• Deliver regional OTIF targets for pack finished goods
• Manage inventory to optimize working capital and DIO targets
• Achieve cost efficiency and DDMPR compliance
• Reduce backorders and support cash flow
• Support new product launches and sustainability agenda

Key Challenges

• Learning DDMRP and Kinaxis planning systems
• Managing evolving customer expectations across markets
• Coordinating product launches with PLM and other teams
• Balancing competing priorities around inventory and delivery targets
• Working virtually with LOBPs/RDCs and E2E Performance Team

Dimensions

• 1 of a team of 11 focusing on these tasks
• Based in Manila; manager onsite
• Strong customer focus to meet market needs and OTIF targets
• Regular engagement with production scheduling and logistics teams
• Focus on DDMRP compliance and root-cause fixes

Additives Planner

The Additives Planner schedules inbound components to blending facilities and toller plants in North America to ensure additives are available for daily production plans. This role supports customer service indices (CSI) and inventory targets (DIO) and OTIF. Responsibilities cover 2–5 plants with potential coverage for other areas of the US network.

Responsibilities and Requirements

• Inbound management for additives, including truck/rail traffic and cost management
• Master data/buffer management for plants and portfolio
• Coordinate with plant operations to ensure availability for daily production

A successful applicant will also need commercial knowledge to manage inventory targets. The US Lubricants packed network includes 6 Lube Oil Blend Plants and 7 Regional Distribution Centers, with >$1B C3 margin and growth goals.

What We Need From You

• At least 3 years of relevant work experience
• Amenable to a 9-month fixed-term/project contract
• Ability to manage changing scope and business needs
• Knowledge in Supply Chain Project Management, Facility Operations, Value Chain Management & E2E Profitability
• Commercial & Economic Acumen; Supply Chain Customer Service
• Supply Chain Integration & Management; Scheduling & Analysis; Tactical Planning

What We Offer

An innovative and inclusive place to work with a focus on career development, diversity, and flexible arrangements. Shell aims to provide opportunities to grow and contribute to a sustainable energy future.

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