Ice Cream Supply Planning Lead

Summary about this job

Detail information about job Ice Cream Supply Planning Lead. Terms and conditions vacancy

Business Context and Main Purpose of the Job

Medium to Long term planning for Minto Ice cream Factory (Master Production Scheduler). Represent supply chain and support the business innovation launches for local ice cream projects. Drive reduction in business waste through early stock management of slow moving and obsolete stocks.

Main Accountabilities

• Create medium to long term production plan for Minto Ice Cream factory.
• Manage and balance production capacity with factory and regional teams.
• Work closely with the factory planning and operation teams in order to ensure there is sufficient stock for customers whilst holding appropriate amount of inventory.
• Work with material planners for forecasting for raw and packaging material suppliers
• Work closely with Marketing and Category teams for innovation projects for locally produced products.
• Project management for innovations for the supply chain activities within the project timelines.
• Identify constraints and highlight risks and develop contingencies to ensure successful launch of innovations OTIF.
• Drive reduction in business waste through early action planning for proposed deletes, actively driving category teams to clear slow, expiring and obsolete stock. Work with finance and category/customer teams to develop clearance plans for stock at risk.
• Regularly review and maintain stock levels to reduce inventory on hand.

Key Skills

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Secondary Qualifications as a minimum

COMPETENCY

• Ability to make fact based decisions.
• Willing to work in a high-performance group and ability to adjust to a constant changing environment.
• Strong communication skills.
• Proven ability to work within a team.
• Proven ability to build relationships
• Strong Problem Solving and Analysis
• Strong Microsoft Office skills (particularly Excel and Microsoft Project)

KEY EXPERIENCE

• 2-3 years experience in Supply Chain Planning is an advantage

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

• Ability to build relationships with a wide range of functions.