AddressThe ideal candidate will have the following skills, knowledge and experience:
- Manage the daily production plans based on requirements driven by demand and sales forecasts.
- Ensuring the demand planning process is accurate and verifiable
- Analyse production capacity and suggest the potential capacity challenges
- Contribute to the S&OP process ensuring customers’ needs are understood so that suppliers and operations are aligned and can deliver the plan.
- Focus on achieving planning KPIs including customer DIFOT attainment.
- Liaise with production to understand needs and prioritise operations ensuring maximum performance and minimum delay
- Drive continuous improvement in the performance of production to meet demand.
- Supporting warehouse demand around pick and distribution requirements
Skills and Abilities
- Can do attitude
- Advanced experience in Microsoft Excel
- Preferred 2+ years’ experience in a Production Planner role in a FMCG environment
- Food manufacturing experience with short shelf life/daily fresh product
- Capacity planning and production scheduling experience
- Experience in developing and implementing processes designed to optimise order fulfilment efficiency and effectiveness
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment and collaborate across teams and functions to achieve outcomes.
- Flexible and the ability to think on your feet
- High attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Sense of urgency
