Our client based in Carrigaline, Cork is currently recruiting experienced Production Planner to join their busy team for an immediate start.
The successful candidate should have:
- Experience in production & supply chain planning.
- Ability to work under pressure on multiple tasks and manage priorities.
- Exceptional attention to detail and analytical skills.
- Ability to build and maintain positive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Have excellent communication skills.
- Excellent knowledge of MS office.
- Strong problem solving and decision-making skills.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the supply planning process, focusing on short term supply planning and inventory management of finished goods.
- Generate Short/Medium term master production scheduling and material requirement planning
- Identify and decide on short term supply issues.
- Highlight short/medium term exceptional cases.
- Work closely with the third-party planning team to ensure delivery of customer service, stock and cost requirements
- Work closely with the logistics teams to ensure delivery of customer service, stock and cost requirements.
- Identify potential bottlenecks on finished goods production, including with key suppliers, and propose ways to resolve them at optimal cost
- Deliver the business supply planning process, particularly the annual supply planning process, to ensure a robust supply plan is issued to the manufacturing sourcing units, third party and sourcing teams for volume and cost planning purposes.
- Manage the stock holding policy to meet customer service level targets.
- Run up/ run down of all materials in times of innovations/promotions to ensure limited business waste and on time availability of new materials.
- Maintain Master Data integrity in the system
- Maintain Work Orders in Mfg.-Pro – weekly and monthly buckets
- Stock Control – manage FEFO and Shelf-Life of Finished Goods
- Achieving Working Capital Targets for Finished Goods
- New Product Introduction
- Manage Rework – work with PLI to rework returns and manage credits through the system
- Cover for Customer Service and Raw & Pack Planner
- Process customers rolling 12-month purchase demand plans into a rolling 12 month make plan.
- Factor in make capabilities whilst maintaining the 12-month rolling plant calendar.
- React to changes in supply demand to meet required customer service.
- Partake in the annual business planning cycle.
- Monitor finished goods stocks, sales, and production orders to achieve required finished goods days on hand (DOH) targets and mitigate out of stock situations.
- Monitor and report on monthly work capital achievement to achieve Full Year targets
- Forecast, monitor and report on data, typically financial value, production tonnage and litre quantity.
- Process new product introduction demand in a timely manner to achieve Customer launch targets.
- Monitor and report quarterly on LSDI obsolete materials.
- 39 hours a week MON-FRI
