Summary
Date Posted: Sunday, December 18, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

Premier Foods Limited (PFL) is a leading food processing company in East Africa, manufacturing over 50 different products under various brand names, including, PEPTANG, PEP and ORCHID VALLEY. Our brands have been in use since 1935 and have become well known household names in the region. We are looking to hire a Supply Chain Planner. This position will be based in Ruaraka, Nairobi County.
The Supply Chain Planner will be responsible for the process of anticipating demand and planning materials and components to supply that demand, along with production, marketing, distribution, and sales.

The main duties and responsibilities will entail: -
• To manage and maintain the relationship with key stakeholders by acting as the overall company demand and supply planner.
• To execute forecast and demand management by investigating substantial demand and supply imbalances.
• To support projects and initiatives such as new product development (NPDs), deals, acquisitions or business development initiatives.
• Interact with sales, product, and the customer to understand demand forecast drivers and plan for the same.
• Drive weekly operational demand and supply reviews to ensure production plans, Material Requirement Plans and in Market Sales are aligned to the demand plan while maintaining optimum stock levels and communicating constraints in a timely manner.
• Manage forecasting of imported and locally sourced raw materials and packaging material by ensuring we have optimal cover and efficient working capital and follow up with procurement for ordering of the same when re-order levels are reached.
• Provide necessary inputs to Materials Requirement Planning e.g. line availability, planned shutdowns (PMs, holidays) key to generating requirements.
• Chair weekly production planning meetings by bringing together all key stakeholders from sales, operations, and finance departments and with their inputs create a single production plan.
• To manage the supply function in order fulfilment, shipping, warehousing and store to ensure healthy inventory for product availability.
• To plan for the production of all new products and ensure that they are delivered to market as per timetable.
• Develop and evaluate capacity plan both by line and SKU and advise manufacturing on shift production patterns.
• Manage and develop strategy of assigned products to optimize service, inventory and efficiency.
• Analyze short term constraints and establishing recommendations for resolution
• Cultivate and manage effective communications and working relationships crossfunctionally Ensure change over times, standard hours, rates and demonstrated capacity are accurately reflected in the planning systems.
• Maintain schedule stability.
• Generate and share daily reports on production schedule adherence, Class A SKUs availability and at risk of OOS SKUs.
• Produce weekly variance (forecast accuracy) report for continuous monitoring of actual sales vs demand.
• Share on a weekly basis the production plan for the week and rolling forecast for the month and convene weekly production planning meeting to discuss the same.

The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications: -
• Bachelor’s degree business in supply chain management.
• Significant professional supply chain experience.
• Master’s degree is an added advantage.
• At least 5 years on hands on managerial support level in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong in analytical and statistical skills
• Advanced level knowledge of excel.
• Demonstrates strong collaboration, integrity & accountability.
• Good planning & communication skills.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

Applicants should submit their application together with a detailed resume, copies of testimonials and a daytime telephone number to the Head of Human Resources or email to hr@peptang.com  by 20th December, 2022

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