ALBS is an Air Liquide entity in Kuala Lumpur, regrouping for the APAC scope its Business Service Centers (Kuala Lumpur and Shanghai) as well as the two Global Functions (IT, Digital and Procurement). Designed to derive optimal value by better leveraging technology, people and competencies, the ultimate goal is to boost efficiency and deliver outstanding and sustainable performance while keeping a strong focus on customer centricity. This Organization is striving for excellence, adopting the Best in Class models to deliver value through simplification and standardization of processes, while adhering to Internal controls and compliance requirements.
Responsible for the management & improvement of all production planning & supply chain activities relating to Airgas (GOX/GAN/LIN/LOX/LAR).
The Airgas Planner is responsible to orchestrate an optimized production planning that is cost efficient together with the Liquid Planner. He/She is responsible for managing the plant production with key stakeholders to align the run mode for each plant; matching our customer demand with optimized production, 3rd-party and distribution assets. He/She is responsible for gathering all inputs and constraints from our plant operation. This person is responsible for monitoring and improving the performance of our Total Landed Cost.
Act as the focal point for all Business Lines for supply chain related matters: Logistic constraints, shutdown/maintenance planning, sourcing, traffic management/purity constraints, plant running configuration pertaining to airgas planning (GOX/GAN/LIN/LOX/LAR)
Strategic Planning
- Contributor to scenarios formulation and optimisation
Monthly Sales & Operation Planning (S&OP)
- Aggregate demand forecast for gas
- Match demand forecast and exceptionals with supply and production
- Consolidate S&OP with Operations & Liquid planners
- Consolidate realized performance vs previous plan
- Implement the plan with the stakeholders
E2E Short-term: Weekly Planning (S&OE)
- Review previous week liquid forecast accuracy
- Aggregate gaseous demand forecast
- Aggregate PP constraints
- Run scenarios & Select
- Check plan effectiveness & capitalize on lessons learned
E2E Short-term: execution of the daily production
- Update Weekly Planning S&OE
E2E Short-term: execution of the daily distribution
- Update weekly planning S&OE if required (incl. pickups)
- Rolling monitoring of quota & close the loop in industrial performance
Spot Sales
- Competitor Support Decisions
- Communicate Unavailability to Competitor
- Picked up liquid volume check against requirement
- Delivered Spot Sales Support Decision
- Communicate Unavailability to Prod mgmt/Commercial
- Communicate Unavailability to Customer
- Present Cost to Product Management
- Gas and Liquid delivered volume check against req.
- Calculate & communicate final costs, lessons learned
Shortage Crisis Management
- To assist in defining plan to resume the customer supply
- To participate in Post Crisis Capitalization
- S&OP Scenarios Updates
- To assist in Financial Impact Assessment
1. Bachelor degree in Engineering
2. >2 years of experience in Industry (Operation and/or Maintenance)
3. Problem Analysis and Solving skill
The successful candidate should have advanced education in engineering and preferably above 2 years of experience in plant operation and/or production planning and/or business operation. This background should enable him/her to optimize the "Production vs Demand" activity on a pool of Air Separation Units, located in different EAP countries. The candidate should also be in charge of coordinating a number of associated workflows. As our goal is to leverage digital tools to build data driven production planning, it is key that the successful candidate is keen to cope with the digital tools.
Due to the multiple stakeholders that the candidate will deal with, excellent communication skills, high autonomy and ability to learn fast will be a key success factor.
Considering the candidates will coordinate in emergent situations at different timing, flexibility and resiliences are key to success criterias.
The candidate will strive for continuous improvement to streamline Non-Value Added tasks and standardize our workflow throughout our geographies.
About Air Liquide
A world leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health, Air Liquide is present in 78 countries with approximately 64,500 employees and serves more than 3.8 million customers and patients. Oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen are essential small molecules for life, matter and energy. They embody Air Liquide’s scientific territory and have been at the core of the company’s activities since its creation in 1902.
Our Differences make our Performance
At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.
We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.
Air Liquide is a world leader in gases, technologies and services for industry and healthcare. Present in 72 countries with 67,800 employees, the Group serves more than 4 million customers and patients. Oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen are essential small molecules for life, matter and energy. They embody Air Liquide’s scientific territory and have been at the core of the Group’s activities since its creation in 1902.
Taking action today while preparing the future is at the heart of Air Liquide’s strategy. With ADVANCE, its strategic plan for 2025, Air Liquide is targeting a global performance, combining financial and extra-financial dimensions. Positioned on new markets, the Group benefits from major assets such as its business model combining resilience and strength, its ability to innovate and its technological expertise. The Group develops solutions contributing to climate and the energy transition—particularly with hydrogen—and takes action to progress in areas of healthcare, digital and high technologies.
Air Liquide’s revenue amounted to more than 27.5 billion euros in 2023. Air Liquide is listed on the Euronext Paris stock exchange (compartment A) and belongs to the CAC 40, CAC 40 ESG, EURO STOXX 50, FTSE4Good and DJSI Europe indexes.
