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Employer: McCormick South Africa
Material Planner
Midrand, South Africa
The Material planner oversees the end-to-end raw material planning process, ensuring alignment with production requirements and operational efficiency. This role involves conducting daily analysis of the production schedule to optimize material purchases, develop short - and medium - term material requirement plans, and contributing to the creation of long - term strategic planning initiatives. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills, proactive problem-solving abilities, and the capability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain optimal inventory levels and streamline procurement processes.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
- Material Shortage Management: Proactively initiate and coordinate action plans to mitigate material shortages, ensuring continuity in production.
- Inventory Control & Optimisation: Monitor inventory levels, minimizing excess stock while proactively managing Slow-moving and Obsolete (SLOB) items.
- Supplier Coordination: Provide material schedules to suppliers at required frequencies to maintain alignment with business needs.
- Procurement expediting: Expedite materials in accordance with SAP recommendations to support timely fulfilment to business requirements.
- SAP Data Integrity: Ensure the maintenance of SAP parameters as regulated by management, keeping system data accurate and up to date.
- Continues Improvement & Cost optimisation: propose and valuate process enhancements to improve material flow and drive cost reduction.
- Risk assessment & Mitigation: Identify short-to medium -term supply chain risks, implementing preventive strategies to minimize impact.
- Working Capital Management: Oversee inventory levels to maintain working capital targets, ensuring efficient resource allocation.
- Compliance & Reporting: Complete shortage and surplus reports within communicated deadlines, provide in accurate data for decision -making.
- Safety stock maintenance: Establish and maintain appropriate safety stock levels to safeguard against demand fluctuations.
Candidate Requirements
CANDIDATE PROFILE
- Solid experience in a supply chain role working with customers, suppliers, and other internal stakeholders.
- Practical experience of material planning in FMCG company (preferably in food industry).
- Experience in managing run in - run out (face in - face out) of materials.
- Degree in Industrial/Supply Chain/Business/Accounting.
- Proven leadership skills and ability to influence stakeholders on all levels in the organization.
- Excellent presentation skills and ability to proactively contribute to customer presentations.
- Proven experience in managing and executing CI projects within a dynamic environment.
- Cross functional team player and able to operate effectively within a matrix structure.
- Flexible approach & innovative problem solver.
- Exposure to ERP/SC systems (SAP) and Advanced level Microsoft Office (Excel).
- Potential and desire to build career within Supply Chain.
- Flexibility in complex, ambiguous and fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
COMPANY
At McCormick, we bring our passion for flavor to work each day. We encourage growth, respect everyone's contributions and do what's right for our business, our people, our communities and our planet. Join us on our quest to make every meal and moment better.
Founded in Baltimore, MD in 1889 in a room and a cellar by 25-year-old Willoughby McCormick with three employees, McCormick is a global leader in flavour. With over 14,000 employees around the world and more than $6 Billion in annual sales., the Company manufactures, markets and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments and other flavourful products to the entire food industry, retail outlets, food manufactures, food service businesses and consumers.
While our global headquarters are in the Baltimore, Maryland, USA area, McCormick operates and serves customers from nearly 50 locations in 27 countries and 135 markets in Asia-Pacific, China, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and the Americas, including North, South and Central America with recognized brands including Schwartz Herbs, Spices & Seasonings, French’s American Mustard, Franks Hot Sauce, Cholula Hot Sauce & Herdez our Authentic Mexican range.
At McCormick, we have over a 100-year legacy based on our “Power of People” principle. This principle fosters an unusually dedicated workforce requiring a culture of respect, recognition, inclusion and collaboration based on the highest ethical values.
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