Lubricants Planning Manager at TotalEnergies

The candidate should possess the following:

• Suitable 3-year tertiary education
• Post graduate degree/Industrial Engineering will be an added advantage.
• Extensive experience in costs analysis in petrochemical, production or industrial environment
• Minimum of 6 years’ experience in Logistics Management (which includes materials management, materials
• requirements planning, materials forecasting, warehousing, managing materials budgets and transportation) of which at
• least 3 years’ experience in a managerial position in a large organization with a complex operations environment
• Extensive experience in stock management gained in a petrochemical, production or industrial environment.

The candidate will be responsible for the following:

HSEQ:

• To ensure constant adherence and compliance to company HSEQ and security standards, local by-laws, standards and legislation
• Promote safe working practices and be an advocate for a safe working environment.
• People Management:
• Lead, motivate and manage the control tower team
• Direct work schedules to provide business continuity during absence periods
• Manage third party staff to improve primary transport utilization

Governance:

• To ensure effective risk management and internal control, including asset management
• Follow up and close findings emanating from various audits
• Ensure compliance with group purchasing policies

Supply Chain Optimisation:

• Management of world class supply concepts to facilitate improved Inbound Logistics
• Manage the logistics, procurement and storage flows for finished products throughout the supply chain
• Maximise efficient inventory management for finished materials
• Control stock count process at all stock holding locations, including: planning, count entry, reconciliation
• Represent Supply Chain at Lubricants range review sessions
• Work with Corporate Purchasing to review vendor performance and identify improvement opportunities
• Work with Corporate Purchasing team for tendering activities
• SAP Key user for production planning, master data and product purchasing. Initiate best practices for SAP flows
• Manage UK article range in SAP to ensure data integrity for costing and cession pricing. This includes product introduction
• and removal from the range
• Dead stock: Identify, report, providing rework and disposal solutions
• Work with local and group colleagues to optimise sales forecasting requirements
• Work with Business Support in preparing Lubricants Supply Chain annual budgets and Long-Term Plan

Continuous Improvement:

• Nurture a culture of continual improvement in the team
• Review Actual vs. planned supply chain performance, understand reasons for deviations and implement improvements as required
• Actively investigate network optimization alternatives and work with LMP and Commercial to justify & implement changes
• Follow models of competitor supply chains based on current operation and future investment plans, present findings regularly