Production Planner

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 ect

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

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/ Labor planning

Continuous 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 ect 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

Teamwork / Staff Engagement

Living the Cavalier values in an individual and team capacity aimed at building a cohesive working environment

Actively participate in all people development initiatives linked to the HR Strategy including but not limited to: performance management; succession planning; talent management; change, process optimisation and engagement initiatives etc. to ensure the team’s performance meets the required standards

Build, support and maintain healthy diverse internal (peers / team members / managers) as well as external (service providers etc.) relationships and implement remedial actions when required to ensure achievement of organisational goals

Provide relevant and specialised technical support, where required, to peers and colleagues to ensure the achievement of objectives

Desired Experience & Qualification

BEng / B Bus. Sc / B Com or equivalent tertiary qualification in Supply Chain

2 years’ experience in Supply Chain FMCG/Food Agri

Sales and Operations Planning

Financial or economic background

Supply Chain

Leadership skills

Lateral thinker

Drive for improvement and efficiency

Negotiation skills

Driver’s License