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
- 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.
