Planning Manager

Olam Agri is a market-leading, differentiated food, feed, and fiber agri-business with a global origination footprint, processing capabilities, and deep understanding of market needs built over 33 years. With a strong presence in high-growth emerging markets and products across grains & oilseeds, animal feed & protein, rice, edible oils, specialty grains & seeds, cotton, wood products, rubber and commodity financial services.

Olam Agri is at the heart of global food and agri-trade flows with more than 40 million MT in volume traded annually. Focused on transforming food, feed and fiber for a more sustainable future, it aims at creating value for customers, enabling farming communities to prosper sustainably, and strive for a food-secure future.
We are  recruiting to fill the position below:

 Job Title: Planning Manager

Location: Nigeria
Function: Others
Sub-Function: Shipping
Role Summary

• Lead a professional Planning function across Caraway Nigeria Biscuits Confectionary and Snacks operations to maximise service levels to customers while optimizing stocks.
• Caraway is centered around West Africa and now has 7 Manufacturing Plants in Nigeria across 6 product categories – Tomato Paste, Seasonings, Instant Noodles, Biscuits, Beverages, and Sweets & Candies.
• The planning Manager Biscuits Confectionary and Snacks will have the responsibility for Material planning, Supply planning, coordination of the S&OP process, and will facilitate demand planning across the designated categories.
  Key Deliverables
• Compliance to planning policies including inventory policy, and categorization of finished goods and raw and packaging material and align with the system integration.
• Manage stock levels within agreed policy levels for material and finished goods
• Facilitate the demand planning process for all the appropriate categories, focusing on eliminating bias and improving forecast accuracy.
• Production planning taking account of demand planning, supply chain policy, capacity limitations, and other production constraints
• Materials requirement Planning. Create and maintain the materials requirement plan. Establish material safety stock and reorder levels with accurate lead times.
• Implement stock plans to achieve stock targets on materials and finished goods.
  Master Production Scheduling
• Distribution requirement planning / replenishment
• Evaluate risks and opportunities creating contingencies and making decisions
• Capacity management planning
• Drive business planning, and in particular, the annual volume planning process which includes interfacing closely with sales, Marketing and finance to ensure timeous delivery.
• Support innovation teams in launching new products
• Develop and train the Demand planners and supply planners across all operations
  Development Projects:
• Lead ERP projects, integration of SAP MRP. Establish MRP, MPS, and capacity planning processes and align with the system integration
• S&OP coordination by Planning Manager
  Complexity Management – regularly review SKU portfolio.
  Requirements
  Education:
•  B.Sc. Degree in Engineering. (M.Sc. or MBA preferred)
  Experience:
• Min 10 years of experience in supply chain in Leading Global Agri-Manufacturing/FMCG
• Consumer companies with positions covering Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Stock Management and Primary Distribution.
• Experience of Lean, Six Sigma and/or TPM strongly preferred.
  Skills:
• Excellent communication skills.
  Strong analytical skills
  Knowledge of SAP or any ERP is required.
  Application Closing Date
  Not Specified.
  Method of Application
  Interested and qualified candidates should:
  Click here to apply online