Supply Planner, Bromine S&OP

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Albemarle is hiring for a S&OP Bromine Supply Planner . This position is hybrid (3 days/week in office) and located in Charlotte, NC.

Summary   The Bromine Supply Planner develops and maintains an integrated supply plan that balances demand, inventory, production capability, and business priorities across a complex, highly integrated manufacturing network spanning multiple production sites and external manufacturing partners. This role serves as a key link between Manufacturing, Demand Planning, Product Management, Logistics, Finance, and Commercial teams.   The successful candidate will be analytical, collaborative, comfortable with change, and able to translate complex supply constraints into clear recommendations for both plant-level teams and senior leadership.

Develop and maintain integrated supply and production plans aligned to demand, inventory targets, production capability, and business priorities across a complex manufacturing network.   Support the monthly S&OP process and near-term S&OE activities by identifying supply risks, constraints, opportunities, assumptions, and recommended actions to balance supply and demand.   Develop and evaluate supply scenarios to support business decisions related to capacity, inventory, customer demand, network optimization, asset utilization , and supply risk mitigation.   Partner with manufacturing and plant teams to understand capacity, operating constraints, maintenance activity, outages, yield impacts, and supply chain risks.   Facilitate alignment across Manufacturing, Commercial, Product Management, Logistics, Finance, and Supply Chain stakeholders by presenting data-driven recommendations and driving timely decision-making.   Analyze supply, inventory, production, and capacity data to identify trends, risks, trade-offs, and planning opportunities, while evaluating business impacts related to customer service, inventory investment, working capital, and operating costs.   Communicate supply assumptions, risks, mitigation strategies, and recommendations clearly to both operational teams and senior leadership.   Support planning master data governance and continuous improvement of planning processes, systems, analytics, reporting capabilities, and cross-functional workflows.   What You Bring Required   Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain , Engineering, Operations, Business, or a related field.   Experience in supply chain, production planning, manufacturing, operations, logistics , analytics, or a related role .   Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work through complex operational constraints.   Strong communication and presentation skills, including the ability to interact with plant personnel and senior leadership.   Demonstrated ability to collaborate across functions and build effective stakeholder relationships.   Ability to manage multiple priorities, adapt to changing business needs, and work with appropriate urgency .   Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.   Preferred   A few years of experience in supply planning, inventory planning, production planning, S&OP, S&OE, or production scheduling.   Experience conducting scenario analysis and developing recommendations to support strategic supply chain and business decisions.   Understanding of the relationship between supply planning decisions and business performance metrics, including customer service, inventory, working capital, and cost.   Experience in chemical, process manufacturing, industrial manufacturing, or another complex