Planning Manager at Proten

Responsibilities

The Planning Manager Beverages and Culinary will have the responsibility for Materialplanning, Supply planning, coordination of the S&OP process, and will facilitate demand planning across the designated categories.

Key Accountabilities

• Compliance to planning policies including inventory policy, and categorization of finished goods and raw and packaging material and align with the system integration.
• Manage stock levels within agreed policy levels for material and finished goods
• Facilitate the demand planning process for all the appropriate categories, focusing on eliminating bias and improving forecast accuracy.
• Production planning taking account of demand planning, supply chain policy, capacity limitations, and other production constraints
• Materials Requirement Planning. Create and maintain the materials requirement plan.
• Establish material safety stock and reorder levels with accurate lead times. Implement stock plans to achieve stock targets on materials and finished goods.
• Master Production Scheduling
• Distribution requirement planning/replenishment
• Evaluate risks and opportunities creating contingencies and making decisions
• Capacity management planning
• Drive business planning, particularly the annual volume planning process which includes interfacing closely with sales, Marketing and finance to ensure timely delivery.
• Support innovation teams in launching new products
• Develop and train the Demand planners and supply planners across all operations

Development Projects

• Lead ERP projects, and integration of SAP MRP. Establish MRP, MPS, and capacity planning processes and align with the system integration
• S&OP coordination by the Planning Manager
• Complexity Management – regularly review SKU portfolio

Behavioral Competencies:

• Result Orientation
• Action oriented
• Team alignment
• Leadership

Education:

• B.Sc. in Engineering. (M.Sc. or MBA preferred)

Experience:

Min 10 years of experience in supply chain in Leading Global Agri-Manufacturing/FMCG/ Consumer companies with positions covering Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Stock Management and Primary Distribution. Experience of Lean, Six Sigma and/or TPM strongly preferred.

Skills:

• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills
• Knowledge of SAP or any ERP is required