NOTE:
Working hours
- Monday to Friday from 06h00 – 15h30
- Must be available to work ad-hoc weekends
Duties & Responsibilities
Strategic Planning
- Participate and influence department strategy.
- Monitor and track against the plan.
- Develop recommendations and subsequent action plans to enable the delivery of the departmental strategy.
- Day to day interaction with team members to deliver strategy.
- Build and develop effective relationships with relevant stakeholders to highlight and determine best solution to overcome challenges to continuously improve.
- Contribute to delivering strategic plans with suppliers by liaising regularly on trend changes and tactical forecasting.
- Proactive and regular communication with key stakeholders.
- Conduct stock build plans considering capacity raw materials supply etc.
Operational Planning
- Understand and optimise supply chain and systems.
- Understand internal and external factors which impact on demand and ensure these are reflected in forecasts.
- Communicate with internal and external stakeholder to maximise efficiencies.
- Identify challenges, trends and opportunities.
- Maintain Data and Systems (Master Data BOMS, MOQ’s, Rounding values lead-times ETC).
- Collate Information and Assumptions.
- Reach Consensus through Alignment.
- Share and Publish the Plans.
- Track and Manage Plans.
- Issuing daily plans/schedules for all production units.
- Resource Shift/ Labour planning.
Continues improvement
- Analysis of historical and current performance.
- Understand market / product trends as well as department focus that could impact demand.
- Implement tactical plans to support business decision making (6-18 month focus on capacity, Staffing etc.)
- Implementation and review against long term tactical plans.
- Planning initiatives / Innovation to improve planning.
Personal development
- Drive personal development.
- Create a personal development plan short and long term.
Strategic Planning
- Participate and influence department strategy.
- Monitor and track against the plan.
- Develop recommendations and subsequent action plans to enable the delivery of the departmental strategy.
- Day to day interaction with team members to deliver strategy.
- Build and develop effective relationships with relevant stakeholders to highlight and determine best solution to overcome challenges to continuously improve.
- Contribute to delivering strategic plans with suppliers by liaising regularly on trend changes and tactical forecasting.
- Proactive and regular communication with key stakeholders.
- Conduct stock build plans considering capacity raw materials supply etc.
Operational Planning
- Understand and optimise supply chain and systems.
- Understand internal and external factors which impact on demand and ensure these are reflected in forecasts.
- Communicate with internal and external stakeholder to maximise efficiencies.
- Identify challenges, trends and opportunities.
- Maintain Data and Systems (Master Data BOMS, MOQ’s, Rounding values lead-times ETC).
- Collate Information and Assumptions.
- Reach Consensus through Alignment.
- Share and Publish the Plans.
- Track and Manage Plans.
- Issuing daily plans/schedules for all production units.
- Resource Shift/ Labour planning.
Continues improvement
- Analysis of historical and current performance.
- Understand market / product trends as well as department focus that could impact demand.
- Implement tactical plans to support business decision making (6-18 month focus on capacity, Staffing etc.)
- Implementation and review against long term tactical plans.
- Planning initiatives / Innovation to improve planning.
Personal development
- Drive personal development.
- Create a personal development plan short and long term.
Desired Experience & Qualification
BEng Industrial / BCom Supply Chain or equivalent tertiary qualification is required
Experience
- 2 years’ operational supply chain experience
- Preferable 1 year’s operational experience in FMCG/Food/Agri
Functional Competencies
- Sales and operations planning
- Financial or economic background
- Supply chain
- Statistical demand and forecasting techniques
- Strong mathematical and statistical skills
- Project management