Planning Manager

Lead a professional Planning function across Caraway Nigeria Biscuits Confectionary and Snacks operations to maximise service levels to customers while optimizing stocks. Caraway is centered around West Africa and now has 7 Manufacturing Plants in Nigeria across 6 product categories – Tomato Paste, Seasonings, Instant Noodles, Biscuits, Beverages, and Sweets & Candies. The planning Manager Biscuits Confectionary and Snacks will have the responsibility for Material planning, Supply planning, coordination of the S&OP process, and will facilitate demand planning across the designated categories.

Key Deliverables

• Compliance to planning policies including inventory policy, and categorization of finished goods and raw and packaging material and align with the system integration.
• Manage stock levels within agreed policy levels for material and finished goods.
• Facilitate the demand planning process for all the appropriate categories, focusing on eliminating bias and improving forecast accuracy.
• Production planning taking account of demand planning, supply chain policy, capacity limitations, and other production constraints.
• Materials requirement Planning.
• Create and maintain the materials requirement plan.
• Establish material safety stock and reorder levels with accurate lead times.
• Implement stock plans to achieve stock targets on materials and finished goods.
• Master Production Scheduling.
• Distribution requirement planning / replenishment.
• Evaluate risks and opportunities creating contingencies and making decisions.
• Capacity management planning.
• Drive business planning, and in particular, the annual volume planning process which includes interfacing closely with sales, Marketing and finance to ensure timeous delivery.
• Support innovation teams in launching new products.
• Develop and train the Demand planners and supply planners across all operations.

Requirements

• Development Projects: Lead ERP projects, integration of SAP MRP.
• Establish MRP, MPS, and capacity planning processes and align with the system integration.
• S&OP coordination by Planning Manager.
• Complexity Management – regularly review SKU portfolio.

Education

• B.Sc. in Engineering. (M.Sc. or MBA preferred).

Experience

• Min 10 years of experience in supply chain in Leading Global Agri-Manufacturing/FMCG/Consumer companies with positions covering Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Stock Management and Primary Distribution.
• Experience of Lean, Six Sigma and/or TPM strongly preferred.

Skills

• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Knowledge of SAP or any ERP is required.