Planning Manager at Proten
Job Description
Proten is an international Human Capital Development firm that offers a wide range of Training, Coaching and Consulting services to individuals, small businesses and corporate and governmental organisations. Our client base spreads across Europe and Africa with head offices in London, United Kingdom and Lagos, Nigeria. Human Capital is undoubtedly one of the most important elements of success in any organisation today. Developing human capital requires creating and cultivating environments in which human beings can rapidly learn and apply new ideas, competencies, skills, behaviours and attitudes. Proten International assists organisations across Europe and Africa in providing opportunities for people to create shared understanding, explore new ideas and apply them. The tools for creating these opportunities include training, facilitation, coaching and consulting. Our focus is to create an enabling environment for businesses and organisations to start – up and thrive through a range of business development services. We also work with Corporate and Governmental organisations to optimize their productivity and performance through a range of advisory, consulting and other services. We aim to understand the needs of every organisation and its people and work hand-in-hand with them to fulfil them. We strongly believe that a highly performing and productive workforce will lead to a profitable organisation.Role Summary
Lead a professional Planning function across our Nigeria Packaged Foods Business operations to maximise service levels to customers while optimising stocks.
Responsibilities
The Packaged Foods Business is centered around West Africa and now has 7 Manufacturing Plants in Nigeria across 6 product categories – Tomato Paste, Seasonings, Instant Noodles, Biscuits, Beverages, and Sweets & Candies.
The Planning Manager will be responsible for Planning all the PFB Nigeria operations.
The planning Manager will have the responsibility for Material planning, Supply planning, coordination of the S&OP process, and will facilitate demand planning.
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, and in particular, the annual volume planning process which includes interfacing closely with sales, Marketing and finance to ensure timeous 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, integration of SAP MRP. Establish MRP, MPS, and capacity planning processes and align with the system integration
S&OP coordination by 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
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