LA GPHE Planning - Key User - D365

Alfa Laval

USonsitePosted Jun 11, 2026
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About the role

Job Description

About the Company:

In Alfa Laval, we are every single day contributing to a more sustainable future for our planet through engineering innovation. Our global team designs and implements the refining, recycling and purifying process that allows our customers to be better themselves. You will find our work in leading applications for Ethanol, Distillery, Starch, Industrial Fermentation, Water, Clean Energy, Food Processing, Waste processing, Pharmaceutical development and much more. The people of Alfa Laval enjoy the freedom to pursue ideas and the resources to see those ideas to become reality, in an environment that welcomes drive, courage and diversity. The result is a company where we all can be very proud of what we do.

Join us as our Food and Water Services team to advance and learn alongside accomplished business leaders to help customers around the world to optimize their processes and enable growth!

Our core competencies are in the areas of heat transfer separation, and fluid handling. We are dedicated to optimizing the performance of our customers' processes. our world-class technologies, our systems, equipment and services must create solutions that help our customers stay ahead.

Please feel free to peruse our website www.alfalaval.com

Key Role & Responsibility :

Planning Key Users

Will become the factory’s experts in D365 for Planning / master planning function.

Understands the track processes

Might cover several tracks

Ensures that local processes fit the global processes

Will be hands-on in the site roll-out

Defines and tests business scenarios in their track(s)

Supports and trains local users in D365

As a Planning Key Users and Data Migration

Drives the local data cleansing in the legacy system (Movex)

Ensures all items in scope are marked and categorized in the legacy system

Extracts data in scope from the legacy system

Ensures coherence in the data extracts

As a Planning Key User after Go Live

Coordinates track activities across sites

Governs’ and implements new processes after deployment

Super-user / point of contact for the processes after the site has gone live

As a Local Process Owner

Interface group to the Local Steering Committee

Owners of the business /delivery process scenarios for the track and responsible for the business scenario scope

Responsible for testing that the solution is acceptable

Responsible for local processes to fit OneERP Standard and local legal requirements

Responsible for securing that locally owned gaps are closed

Support end users in the change management

Responsible for the process / function benefit realisation post roll-out

Competencies:

Domain Knowledge :- Have a deep understanding of the business processes and best practice in the specific functional area on below:

Product and Product structure Knowledge.

Sales and operations planning

Forecast and MRP

Capacity for sites and products groups

Intercompany planning

Inventory management tools

Experience in Production Scheduling

Communication & Colaboration Skills :- English Fluency. Be able to train and guide others and bridge gaps between D365 experts and end-users

Leadership & Influence:- Advocate for D365 within their teams and influence colleagues positively, analyze problems, identify root causes, and propose solutions

Technical Proficiency:- Become proficient in using D365. They will be the first support level and need to be fairly IT proficient

Continuous Learning:- Role continues after go-live, thus a desire to continuous improvement the solution locally is needed

Attension to detail:- Key users will configure system settings, define security roles and test functionality

Program Management: Exposure to small / medium / large scale program implementation is preferred.

Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify issues, evaluate options, and implement effective solutions.

Change Management: Experience and understanding of how to drive and manage organizational change related to IT transformation, with a focus on minimizing resistance and maximizing adoption

Experience:

5-8 Yerars relavant experience in Planning, Master Data Management & ERP in Manufacturing field.

Strong knowledge of Planning / master planning functions, processes, methodologies and tools.

Education:

Bachelors degree in Engineering.

Awaness or exposure to D 365 / ERP implementation will be preferred.

Physical & Environmental Factors

Office environment with frequent attendance on the shop floor. Safety equipment required when present on the shop floor – footwear, hearing, eyewear.

Environmental Factors (hazardous materials, work location, work surfaces, exposure).

Why should you apply:

We offer you an interesting and challenging position in an open and friendly environment where we help each other to develop and create value for our customers.

Exciting place to build a global network with different nationalities.

Your work will have a true impact on Alfa Laval’s future success, you will be learning new things every day.

"We care about diversity, inclusion and equity in our recruitment processes. We also believe behavioural traits can provide important insights into a candidate's fit to a role. To help us achieve this we apply Pymetrics assessments, and upon application you will be invited to play the assessment games.”

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