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Overview:
This role is primarily responsible for optimizing raw materials planning, including vendor direct and third-party items, and production planning-scheduling to ensure all customer requirements are met in a timely manner while optimizing the use of available capacity and minimizing working capital requirements.
Responsibilities: - Manage day to day business processes across the Planning function.
- Ensure optimized inventory level management of raw and packaging materials to ensure that customer requirements are met on a timely manner.
- Responsible for managing US$200MM COGS.
- Manage and optimize planning parameters for finished goods, intermediate products, raw and packaging materials and intercompany items.
- Review customer orders against forecast and raw material availability in order to commit or roll customer requirements against the defined 25% tolerance.
- Review and align feasibility of demand change requests.
- Develop and maintain production order policies to optimise plant efficiency and working capital requirements while ensuring product availability to meet customer demands and efficient utilization of 3PL spaces.
- Develop and maintain raw materials safety stock and replenishment policies to ensure raw materials availability and optimization of working capital.
- Continuous process improvements in raw materials and production planning areas.
- Contribute to and provide leadership for inventory reduction strategies, including participating / leading monthly inventory review process to provide consolidated reports for financial reporting and risk assessment.
- Develop, maintain and analyze a comprehensive suite of KPIs to monitor performance and ensure targets are achieved.
- Develop, Lead and Motivate the Supply Planning team. Develop strength within the group through coaching and training to ensure targets are met.
- Lead implementation of training plans to ensure coverage across all areas for direct reports.
- Work cross functionally to develop mechanisms that will improve quality, provide realistic schedules, standardize processes and reduce costs.
- Participate in development and implementation of new area processes and improvements.
- Meet all internal and external compliance responsibilities including Purchasing Policy requirements, GCS, SOX & AIBI.
- Adherence to all PepsiCo Health & Safety requirements is a requirement of this role.
- Any other ad hoc duties and projects as assigned.
- Education or Professional Certifications
- Strong academic credentials – Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain or equivalent qualification in related discipline
- Six Sigma certification will be an advantage
- Experience
- 8 years of experience in materials and/or production planning in a high-volume manufacturing environment
- Previous experience in a supervisory role
- Demonstration of analytical and problem solving skills
- Knowledge and job skills
- Proven track record on planning capabilities
- Strong business acumen with an ability to drive and make good business decisions that are typically complex and broad in nature
- Experience in SAP e.g SAP PP / MM modules, PowerBI and Tableau
- Strong MS Office literacy, particularly in Excel
- Ability to draw insights from data to drive the right action(s)
- Competency in process improvement, Loss Analysis / Loss-Elimination and Lean Six Sigma would be an added advantage
- Soft skills
- Excellent communication and strong interpersonal skills with an ability to interact with senior stakeholders
- Strong aptitude and interest in people leadership but also able to influence and align teams
- Have analytical skill, complimented by strong / soft relationship management skill
- Ability to work cross functionally and influence other
- Self-starter, well organized, with attention to detail with ability to work on own initiative
- Ability to bring others together