Employment Nigeria 01-Jan-1970 NIGERIA , NIGERIA ,
Planning Manager
Job reference Nos: NGA0560
Sector: Industry - Nigeria - Western Africa
Function: Supply chain
Adexen Recruitment Agency is mandated by a leading international industrial Group to recruit a Planning Manager.
Job description
- To coordinate the Planning Process of the Business Unit which includes analysis of historical performance and forecast
- To Anchor Distribution Improvement projects which includes channel definition and improvements, depot productivity and Profitability and KPI setting for customer service measures.
- To Establish Sales and Operations Planning Process for the BU to ensure synergy in departments operations
- To fully embed Category Management in Group
- To deliver significant year on year cost reductions net of inflation
- To implement Business Policy and Procedures.
The Planning Manager will report to the Head of Supply Chain Division
The position is based in Lagos
Responsibilities
- Define the production planning based on the sales needs; make sure that proper decisions on export volumes, transfers to terminal and grinding station, as well as the logistic and purchasing needs (for main raw materials) are taken;
- Make sure that no stock out situations occurs as result of wrong planning, nor excess stocks.
- Propose solutions for optimizing the plant output in line with customers/market demands
- Give necessary support to the management in taking the related decision in anticipating problems linked to capacity and production needs.
- Prepare the optimized planning for production, logistic, purchase, and communicate to all related department.
- Manage the planning tool and ensure the link with IT and controlling department for related optimization.
- Implement the part of supply chain strategy directly linked to planning in LCR.
- Find, propose and implement solutions for cost reduction and service improvement, through the planning process. Manage projects links to general improvement of the planning activity within LCR.
- Anticipate problems and work to mitigate risks linked to planning activities
- Ensure the relate work with the export department in anticipating and defining the export planning.
- Ensure the related support and information for logistic, purchasing and production departments.
- Give necessary support (informations) to the OP responsible in taking the related decision linked to available amounts of products
- Support Supply Chain Director in case studies and scenario for improvement solutions
- Participate to budget and forecast exercises in coordination with controlling department.
- Understand the general aspects linked to supply chain, and propose solutions for further optimization between planning and the others departments in supply chain
Qualifications and experience
- Degree educated, in a commercially based Discipline
- Highly experienced in a FMCG Purchasing environment.
- Ability to display Strategic thinking and developing strategic options.
- Excellent negotiation and communication skills with significant evidence of savings and value delivery.
- Project Management skills and ability to track & drive through projects
- Sound commercial awareness and the ability to contribute to the wider business process outside immediate role responsibilities.
- Exceptional leadership skills to build and maintain a high performing team
- Ability to work though X-Functional teams across multi sites.
- Ability to engage and influence a wide range of senior stakeholders and be a change agent
- Ability to negotiate Services and Supply Contracts effectively, manage outsourcing contracts strategically.
- Ability to develop mental resilience in the face of barriers/obstacles
- Work with X-Functional Teams across the BU
- Effective Communication skills for disseminating relevant information to all stakeholders at the right time
- Ability to present management position without difficulties
- Good understanding of International Trade and INCOTERMS
- Ability to contribute to the wider business process outside immediate
- Accounting Competency for commercial negotiations and Cost Management
What is on offer: Attractive package
If your experience, personal characteristics and qualifications meet the position specifications and your personal objectives are to seek such a challenge, then we would like to hear from you with details of your current earnings, up to date CV and explanation as to why your achievements to date fit you for consideration.
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