Supply Planner

Foster Clark Products Ltd in Malta is looking to recruit a Supply Planner to join their team on a full-time basis.

Job Role:
Reporting to the Sales and Operations Planning Manager, your main responsibilities will include building production plans respecting the agreed level of available capacity, to ensure that finished and semi-finished goods are available with high freshness, at the right stock location to meet customer demand whilst minimizing cost.

Key Accountabilities
8 Weeks Plan:

• Create an 8-week production plan for the factories within your responsibility, within the defined capacity and SKU constraints
• Evaluate the production plan weekly to ensure that the volumes planned are produced on time
• Validate material availability and follow up with Purchasing on delivery dates
• Identify possible opportunities and improvements in collaboration with the factory within the 8-week horizon
• Allocate Finished Goods.

Customer Service:

• Review the Pending sales order list and ensure that supply meets demand on time
• Guarantee product freshness by carrying out systematic weekly reviews. Push the clearance of aging goods
• Evaluate and review stock cover policy to achieve business objectives on service level and working capital
• Prepare supply outlook; review & propose adjustments to the production plan, both time and quantity

Interdepartmental Role:

• Contribute to cross-functional planning activities such as MPR according to Best Practices
• Data Management: maintain appropriate Master Data in the system; Min/Max covers, Shift patterns, and maintenance downtimes and ensure regular housekeeping of data
• Prepare manufacturing performance and stock holding reports.

Ideal candidate profile
Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, operations management, business, or a related field. Additional qualifications in a relevant field will be preferred.

Experience:

• Two or more years of relevant operational experience at the market/business level is useful, in at least one of the following areas:
  • Factory Planning
  • Supply Network Planning
  • Purchasing
  • Factory Production Team Lead and
  • Demand Planning.

Skills:

• Solid working experience in demand planning & supply chain management in the FMCG industry, food industry experience preferred
• Experience in the following processes would be highly beneficial:
  • Product Life Cycle process
  • Factory Master Data Management
• Advanced mathematical and analytical skills
• MS software skills – Power BI, advanced Excel, PowerPoint & Word
• Exposure to working with ERP systems – Microsoft AX experience will be preferred
• Experience with delivering credible analytics with complex data.

Competencies:

• Teamwork
• Influencing and Impact, including conflict management
• Planning and Organizing
• Attention to details
• Program and project management
• Rule Oriented
• Analytical thinking and problem-solving.