Master Planner

**Overview**
- Manage the Production Planning processes, outputs and resources to ensure customer OTIF and enhanced customer satisfaction within operation budgets
- Medium term production optimisation and shift planning
- Manage and guide IBP process.
- Optimise Factory utilisation, Demand-, Inventory-and Supply parameters with customer.

**Responsibilities**

**Master Planning**
- Manage the creation of a factory wide masterplan, including production schedule, maintenance, laboratory, QA/QC, Warehouse and MRP across the value chain.
- Balance demand and supply effectively to achieve strategic goals.
- Provide “what if” capacity and schedule analysis for changing demand, staffing constraints, and new customer project awards.
- Plan to minimise effects of resource constraints.
- Suggest batch size changes, re-routing of products and outsourcing/ purchasing of additional equipment, as required.
- Optimise parameters across the value chain to unlock value.
- Ensure that all units are aligned to produce an optimised plan.

**Planning coordination and reporting**
- Manage, prepare and facilitate the monthly supply point reviews for your specific unit.
- Drive the adherence to key KPIs including budgeted, planned and actual OTIF, ATP, Schedule adherence and recoveries.
- Work with production supervisors and managers for optimal efficiency to meet the needs of internal and external customers.
- Assess and report on manpower requirements.
- Assist the creation of SKU, work centre and labour matrix to allow for optimisation when demand or supply changes.
- Ensure change controls are actioned appropriately.

**Risk and Controls**
- Monitor sales against forecast volumes, identifying at-risk products.
- Identify supply deficits, over-scheduling, capacity constraints and under-loaded schedules and highlight recoveries-related financial risks and critical materials shortages.
- Ensure delivery terms are met and that correct documentation accompanies consignments.
- Input into routings, inventory policies and related pertinent processes

**Planning optimisation**
- Develop and manage data from all value chain units to create optimisation and simulation ability.
- Work with the analytics team to continuously improve our ability to drive key KPIs.

**Skills required**

**Background/experience**
- 5 to 10 years’ experiencein a Supply Chain, Procurement or Planning role
- Experience in a pharmaceutical/FMCG manufacturing environment
- 3 year degree in Procurement, Logistics or Engineering,or a related discipline

**Specific job skills**
- Computer literacy: proficiency in Excel, Word, Powerpointand ERP system
- Solid understanding of S&OP/IBP
- Scenario planning, optimisation and/or simulation experience
- End to end understanding of Supply Chain operations in Plan, Source, Make and Deliver.

**Competencies**
- Ability to represent SA OPS in global planning platforms
- Strong leadership skill to guide business decision making considering service, cost and cash.
- Taking Action
- Managing Performance
- Performance driven and solution orientated
- Strong analytical and numerical skills a must
- Highly collaborative, flexible and attention to detail
- Conflict management and resolution

**Accountability & Decision Rights**
- Root cause analysis and improvement plans
- Exercise interpersonal, communication, training and problem-solving skills in work performance
- Escalates highly complex problems or out-of-policy issues

**Independent decisions relating to**:

- Resources, approach and tactical operations
- Own and teamwork priorities and timelines
- Interpretation of policies, standards, requirements and approaches
- Management of budget(s) for team and/ or small projects