Factory Planner

POSITION SNAPSHOT

Location: Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Company: Nestlé Saudi Manufacturing
Full-Time Contract

Reports to: Factory Planning Manager

POSITION SUMMARY

Joining Nestlé means you are joining the largest Food and Beverage Company in the world. At our very core, we are a human environment - passionate people driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future.  A Nestle career empowers you to make an impact locally and globally, as you are provided with the opportunity to make a mark and stand out, if you seek it.  With Nestle, you are enabled and encouraged to grow not only as professionals, but also as people.

We are looking for a Materials Planner, providing consistently Materials Requirement Plan, complying with Raw & Pack Inventory Policies.

Focus of this role is to:

• Review Raw & Pack inventory levels against stock cover policy on a regular basis and align with procurement team on the needed requirements
• Check weekly and monthly production plans from Raw & Pack availability perspective and coordinate with production planner for production plans adherence
• Coordinate with Factory Logistics team for receiving priorities
• Coordinate with QC Team for inspection priorities
• Review stock cover policy for Raw & Pack to cover against Demand & Supply Variability
• Create feasible production plan within DSP period as per the agreed rules and taking into consideration the factory situation (Line availability, capacity, resources, etc)
• Ensure Materials availability and avoid line stoppages
• Ensure Supply to fulfill the Business targets

A DAY IN THE LIFE …

Functional Responsibilities

• Cost and service: Define clear rules to be used for planning in the factory and align with all stakeholders. These rules must take into consideration the Business objectives and Priorities. Review regularly the rules based on the evolving environment and factory situation.
• Service: Create feasible and optimized materials plan taking into consideration Lead Times, Minimum Order Quantity, Total Shelf Life, Targeted Service Level and Demand & Supply Variability.

• Process Compliance: Facilitate and create alignment in weekly planning reviews. Provide key outputs involving multiple functions in monthly Planning Reviews (Demand & Supply Team, Production Planners, Business Unit, Supply Chain & Factory) to ensure alignment between Operations and Business

         What will make you successful…

• Academic Experience: Bachelor degree in Supply Chain / Procurement
• Operational Experience: Minimum 3 years’ experience of which 2 years at a supervisory level.
  • MRP (Material Requirement Planning)
  • Logistic Coordinator
  • Warehousing
  • Production / Production Planning
  • Demand & Supply Planning
• Exposure to:
  • Factory Master Data Management
  • Factory / Supply Chain KPIs Management
  • Customer Service