Manager Operations/Production

Description Overview

The Planning and Scheduling Manager (Operations) is a leadership position, reporting directly to the Site Leader. This position requires an experienced leader to facilitate and drive results in a fast paced and demanding growth environment, leveraging their strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
The core functions of the position include:

• strategic and tactical decision-making related to balancing demand and supply;
• generating long and short term production schedules aligning volume and mix with capacity and capability;
• continuously improving current planning model;
• engaging with internal and external customers/suppliers on operational outcomes.

Scope of the Role

Major duties:

• Manage the aggregation of the demand plan process across product categories and brands, producing a rolling 12-18 month estimate of unconstrained future demand in units.

• Conduct rough cut capacity and scenario planning to be able understand potential production bottlenecks and engage with stakeholders to increase or fill capacity.

• Develop, monitor and revise production and resourcing plans, to meet the needs of customers.

• Achieve customer service supply objectives and develop supporting metrics, tools and reporting that will enable Operations, Quality and Procurement teams to achieve service level and inventory targets.

• Sound analytical and problem-solving ability.

• SAP production planning and master data maintenance.

Experience Required

To be successful in this position you will have:

• Related Tertiary Qualifications and at least 5 year’s experience in a demand planning position ideally in the Pharmaceutical or FMCG industries.
• Knowledge and experience in MRP and ERP systems inventory control, materials requirements planning, item master, demand planning and scheduling.
• Able to communicate effectively with senior management, peers, colleagues and external customers.
• People management experience including strong interpersonal and leadership skills: meeting facilitation, skill sharing and training, conflict management, relationship management.
• Knowledgeable in lean principles/methodologies.