Job Summary
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
About
PEOPLE DIMENSION believes that every successful Brand is shaped by Great People who deliver on the promise they make. PEOPLE DIMENSION is a Recruitment agency committed to seek greatness in the South African job market. Skills attraction is our passion and building trusted partnerships with both our clients and applicants our priority. PEOPLE DIMENSION prides us on providing a personalized and delivery-focused recruitment function across all industries. Our Services include both permanent and contract placements, in the following specialist areas; Information Technology Engineering Finance Office Support Insurance Marketing & Sales A clear understanding of our clients’ business and corporate culture is the starting point of every successful placement we make. Our extensive industry knowledge and more than 11 year presence within the recruitment industry, enables us to find and introduce South Africa’s top talent to our clients. We also believe in continuous follow up on the progress of the candidate we have placed as well as the level of both our client’s and candidate’s satisfaction with our service. PEOPLE DIMENSION adheres to the APSO Constitution and Code of Ethics and is therefore very serious in complying with the requirements of South Africa’s Labour legislation. We are also a Level 4 BEE Contributor. Integrity and Service excellence is our promise to you. We invite you to choose PEOPLE DIMENSION as your recruitment partner.
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