PAM 414809 - Materials Planner – Pretoria East

SUMMARY:
Materials Planner – Pretoria East

POSITION INFO:

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

• BCom in Supply Chain

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

 

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