Employer Description
Producer that specializes in the procurement, feedlotting, slaughter, packing, processing, and distribution of meat products.
Job Description
Your duties will encompass:
- 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.
- Conduct stock build plans considering capacity raw materials supply etc.
- Understand and optimize 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 maximize efficiencies.
- Track and Manage Plans and escalate supply shorts.
- Issuing daily plans/schedules for all production units.
- Resource Shift/ Labor planning.
- Manage space in warehouses in line with plans and manage redundant and obsolete stock.
- Manage relationships with suppliers.
- Provide daily/weekly/monthly forecasts with supplier.
- Purchase order management and ensure accurate order placement on all aspects.
- Manage supplier contracts.
- Conduct price negotiations with suppliers.
- Report on materials shortages with root cause and corrective action.
- Drive cost saving initiatives in line with departments strategies.
- Analysis of historical and current performance.
Qualifications
Skills
- 2 years operational supply chain experience.
- Sales and Operations Planning C
- Financial or Economic Background.
- Statistical Demand and Forecasting Techniques.
- Strong Mathematical and Statistical Skills.
- Project Management.
Salary / Package
R20 000 - R23 000 CTC
