Ice Cream Senior Execution Planner

The Ice Cream division at Unilever is preparing to stand on its own, aiming to become an independent, EUR 8.3 billion publicly listed company by the end of 2025. We’re on a mission to create the ultimate snacking company.​ A place where growth, innovation, founder and ownership mentality, and performance are cultivated and rewarded. And where we craft extraordinary ice cream experiences - transforming ordinary moments into lasting memories.​ Because we know, life tastes better with ice cream.​ 

ABOUT THE MAGNUM ICE CREAM COMPANY:  

The Magnum Ice Cream Company is all about growth. Growing our business. Growing our customers’ businesses. Growing our people’s careers.​ Growth begins with empowerment. So we free our people to be innovative, responsible entrepreneurs, driven and equipped to give our consumers more amazing products and unforgettable moments – and having fun doing it.​   

With 19.000 expert ice cream colleagues and iconic brands like Wall’s, Cornetto and Ben & Jerry’s, loved in 76 countries, we are the world’s largest Ice Cream company leading the industry.  We have been taking pleasure seriously for more than 100 years, serving happiness with every lick or scoop of ice cream for generations.   

We are investing to unlock the full growth potential of The Magnum Ice Cream Company as a standalone entity, once we separate from Unilever, which is planned to happen before the end of 2025.   

We dream big but keep things simple to act fast.​  

If you want to grow with us, make an impact, and shape the future of Ice Cream, this is the place for you!  

What You’ll Do

• Devise a production plan and manage the execution of the plan in order to support business needs.
• Effectively interpret supply plan to develop a weekly finite production schedule according to the agreed run strategy
• Evaluate and clearly communicate the tradeoffs of schedule changes to OR, service, and OEE to enable business decisions.
• Review actual production data and take necessary actions to adjust future production accordingly.
• Communicate the production schedule and material changes to plant personnel, including production, logistics, quality, supply planning, and requirements planning.

• Measure and set run rates based on demonstrated factory capability (review with production & supply planning for alignment).
• Measure and report Output Reliability utilizing the OR Loss Tree using WCM best practice. Develop action plans between the factory and planning to drive step change in OR.
• An Execution Planner acts as a liaison between Supply Planning and Manufacturing.
• It is the responsibility of the Planner to understand the business and help build a responsive network that can react to the volatility of the market while also managing inventory levels, non-finished good material availability, and waste implications.
• As part of the Supply Planning Team, you will need to drive initiatives to meet team goals and ensure the continuous improvement of processes and outcome.
• Help optimize the delivery of service, inventory and production planning.
• Frequent and effective interaction with supply planning, factories, suppliers, procurement and logistics teams is essential.
• Demonstrate creativity and critical thinking to suggest out-of-the-box solutions to complex scheduling scenarios.
• Support ad hoc analysis for strategic projects and VIP opportunities. Key interface between the factory team and planning. Master Data setup and BOM generation. Material Write-Off Submissions.

Who You Are

• You’re a born leader: You will be a visible leader in the Planning community with a portfolio of high volume, high impact SKU’s. Your actions will have a sizeable impact on the end to