Planning Manager

General Services
- DURBAN-WHARFSIDE & CAUSEWAY RD(ZAF)
- South Africa

**HSEQ**:

- To ensure constant adherence and compliance to company HSEQ and security standards, local by-laws, standards and legislation
- Promote safe working practices and be an advocate for a safe working environment

**People Management**:

- Lead, motivate and manage the control tower team
- Direct work schedules to provide business continuity during absence periods
- Manage third party staff to improve primary transport utilization

**Governance**:

- To ensure effective risk management and internal control, including asset management
- Follow up and close findings emanating from various audits
- Ensure compliance with group purchasing policies

**Supply Chain Optimisation**:

- Prepare Lubricants Supply Chain annual budgets and Long-Term Plan
- Management of world class supply concepts to facilitate improved Inbound Logistics
- Manage the logistics, procurement and storage flows for finished products throughout the supply chain
- Maximise efficient inventory management for finished materials
- Control stock count process at all stock holding locations, including: planning, count entry, reconciliation
- Represent Supply Chain at Lubricants range review sessions
- Work with Corporate Purchasing to review vendor performance and identify improvement opportunities
- Work with Corporate Purchasing team for tendering activities
- SAP Key user for production planning, master data and product purchasing. Initiate best practices for SAP flows
- Manage UK article range in SAP to ensure data integrity for costing and cession pricing. This includes product introduction and removal from the range
- Dead stock: Identify, report, providing rework and disposal solutions
- Work with local and group colleagues to optimise sales forecasting requirements

**Continuous Improvement**:

- Nurture a culture of continual improvement in the team
- Review Actual vs. planned supply chain performance, understand reasons for deviations and implement improvements as required
- Actively investigate network optimization alternatives and work with LMP and Commercial to justify & implement changes
- Follow models of competitor supply chains based on current operation and future investment plans, present findings regularly
- Suitable 3 year tertiary education
- Post graduate degree/Industrial Engineering will be an added advantage
- Extensive experience in costs analysis in petrochemical, production or industrial environment
- Minimum of 6 years’ experience in Logistics Management (which includes materials management, materials
- requirements planning, materials forecasting, warehousing, managing materials budgets and transportation) of which at
- least 3 years’ experience in a managerial position in a large organization with a complex operations environment
- Extensive experience in stock management gained in a petrochemical, production or industrial environment

**Offer ID**
- 59299BR

**Metier**
- General Services Responsibilit

**Region, department, area**
- South Africa

**Employment type**
- Regular position

**Experience level required**
- Minimum 6 years

**Employer company**
- TotalEnergies Marketing South Africa (Pty) Ltd

**Branch**
- Marketing & Services

**About us / company profile**

Give your best to better energy and make the commitment with Total. With over 500-plus professions in 130 countries, we offer high safety and environmental
standards, strong ethical values, an innovation culture and wide-ranging career development. Be part of the global team whose mission is already shared by
100,000 employees: to make energy better each and every day.