Project Supply Chain Planner

, Philippines

Job Family Group:

Downstream Supply Chain

Worker Type:

Regular (FTC) (Fixed Term)

Posting Start Date:

July 30, 2025

Business unit:

Experience Level:

Early Careers

Job Description:

Where You Fit In

If you are passionate about supply chain operations, planning, and driving performance across complex networks, this is your opportunity to make a meaningful impact. As part of Shell’s commitment to powering progress by delivering more and cleaner energy solutions, these roles contribute directly to ensuring product availability, optimizing inventory, and enhancing customer satisfaction.

We are currently looking for candidates to fill the following roles:

• 3P Project Planner

• Supply Planner

• Additives Planner

3P PROJECT PLANNER

The role will be focused on various tolling and turnkey plants for the daily work within the E2E Performance Team to deliver KPI targets. A 3P Planner will be expected to work with 3P suppliers to ensure our finished goods are available based on production schedule as well as communicate back to a broader team if there are delays/changes that impact product availability. As such, the 3P Planner has a very significant impact on customer experience and overall supply chain performance for pack and bulk finished goods which will filter down to product availability concerns for our customers. This is mostly an operational and tactical role, but a successful applicant will also need to show commercial knowledge when taking into account inventory targets across each regional distribution centers including technical knowledge in creating reports, dashboard, and data analytics.

A successful applicant will require:

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

• Ability to make decisions in a timely manner with incomplete and changing information.

• Ability to root cause issues and take corrective actions quickly.

• Customer/commercial focused

• Demonstrate proactive thinking to work to improve/adjust the supply chain prior to any disruption.

• Self-starter who can apply Continuous Improvement thinking and practices (prior C training is a plus).

• Technical Skills / Capacity to pick up new systems quickly: SAP APO/GSAP, DDMRP and Microsoft Excel.

Key Challenges:

• Learning a planning system (DDMRP) and using it in the daily standard work.

• Changing customer expectations across multiple market segments and the associated complexities that this will bring.

• Supporting various new product launches and transitions, and coordinating with PLM and other teams to deliver on customer expectations.

• Working through competing priorities, especially around inventory and customer delivery targets.

• Working virtually with 3P suppliers, contract holders, and other relevant stakeholders.

Business Dimensions

• The 3P Planner will be 1 in a team of 8 people focusing on these tasks.

• This role will be based in Manila.

• Will need to have customer focus as a priority; understanding how the planning of finished goods directly impacts customers' experience with Shell.

• Regular engagements with the 3P suppliers, contract holders, and other planning teams as needed.

• Interaction with other Lubricants Supply Chain teams to coordinate and deliver value saving opportunities.

• Focus on various reports and drive root cause fixes to increase performance.

SUPPLY PLANNER

Pack finished good planning from a Shell owned Lube Oil Blend Plants (LOBPs)

The supply planner in charge of pack finished good planning at the LOBPs will manage the pack portfolio for 1-2 LOBPs in the North American Shell network.  This task will require daily use of Shell’s planning systems to determine production quantities at a material level to ensure that customer service metrics are delivered across the network while also balancing how much inventory is built to help keep working capital stay at proper levels.

Management of inventory settings and helping with order prioritization

The supply planner will manage the inventory and prioritization at the RDCs will work to set inventory targets across all SKUs at each RDC in their remit to help manage customer delivery targets vs. the inventory $ at each site.  This planner will review monthly proposals for inventory targets and then make trade off decisions as needed based on RDC physical capacity and customer expectations.  These planners will also help launch new products as they are i