Prod Planning & Scheduling Senior Analyst

Overview

Leading Supply Planning team in Egypt SNKs. & a team of 11 members. Providing the proper service level and Inventory Coverage across the whole 7 SNKs Categories for Poland and Germany.

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.
• 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.
• Adherence to all PepsiCo Health & Safety requirements is a requirement of this role.
• Any other ad hoc duties and projects as assigned

Qualifications

• Experience of 5-8 years in FMCG (Preferable Planning)
• Bachelor of Science in Engineering
• Fluent in English & Arabic
• Very Good in Communications & Leadership
• Very Good in SAP, MRP tools, Microsoft apps.