Company Profile
One of the largest manufacturers of high quality edible vegetable oils & fats, margarine, and laundry & toilet soaps in the East and Central African region.
Main Responsibilities
Production Planning Part
- Develop Production Plans and schedules for finished products by analyzing sales forecast and production capacity, checking stock balance of raw material and packaging materials and setting daily production schedules and types of products to be produced to meet production specifications and schedules, volume, cost, wastage targets and quality standards.
- Monitor and/or adjust production plans to accommodate downtime, material shortage, trials, etc.
- Continuously try to improve (quantity and quality) this production plan.
- Maintain balanced inventory of finished goods to ensure sufficient availability of finished goods in order to meet the sales volume and to prevent over stock and waste due to product’s shelf life.
- Also responsible for the monthly and yearly planning and making sure that all the departments are aware of it.
- Create and submit to line manager a report of actual production against plan with an analysis of the cause of the issues
- Support Technical staff on trials by coordinating with production team and arranging production plans to accommodate trials
- Support sales team by working with production on ad-hoc orders and adjust production plans accordingly MRP Planning Part
- Make a purchase plan based on the forecast from the sales department, current stock levels at factory and the parameters from the suppliers.
- Monitor daily production plans, material orders and stock levels handled by direct reports and solve problems to ensure that the production plans correspond to the sales forecast and will be properly achieved.
- Work with sales department to ensure sales forecast accuracy by reviewing sales data with sales department and related parties and discussing issues and concerns.
- Oversee the proper control of inventories, by setting safety stock level in the system for raw materials and packaging materials, and manage material orders to ensure adequate stock and timely supply of materials to the production lines by, based on the sales forecast, creating LPO for raw and packaging material order, confirming suppliers on the delivery quantity and time, and solving issues
- Analyze reports on production plan against actual production and stock cover (finished goods, raw materials, packaging materials) in order to work with related parties to solve issues
- Coordinate with quality, sales, production, warehouse and purchasing to achieve production plans and sales volume with minimum issues
Essentials
- Excellent English, both written and verbal
- Good academic education (probably a Graduate)
- At least 2 years of work experience in production, production planning, supply chain
- Committed, Adaptable, Enthusiastic
- Good interpersonal skills
- Computer skill : Excellent in MS Excel, Word & Powerpoint
- Good communication skill and analytical thinking
- Problem solving
- Willingness to learn
Kindly also mention your current/ last salary and benefits.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
