Material Support Coordinator at Kimberly-Clark

• This position is responsible for 1) controlling all material under the jurisdiction of production, this includes all material issues, returns & physical stock on the production floor and 2) coordinating and reporting on daily production.

In this role, you will:

• Liaising with Planning to agree on all material requirements for production
• Checking & controlling production material floor stock
• Daily floor stock counts at required times (Including adhering to month end deadlines)
• Ensuring that all required materials are issued a shift in advance
• Ensuring that all material returns & NCRs are processed and captured correctly on SAP
• Tracking all consumption & returns of material on SAP: finishing materials and raw materials
• Investigate material variances daily, including analysis of material quality
• Assist operations team with material trials
• Reconciliation of physical material stock to SAP after every Production run & ensuring that all adjustments were processed on SAP (Diaper raw material to be reconciled daily)
• Alerting Planning in advance for any material shortages that might occur, to ensure timeous procurement of new material
• Ensure adherence to financial procedures during stock counts and reconciling of counts
• Provide timely and accurate decision support, reporting to management to assist in optimising manufacturing cost and meeting plant objectives.
• Work with mill operations team to investigate results, adverse trends and communicate outcomes, as well as suggested corrective actions to relevant individuals.
• Prepare daily production reconciliation reports
• Declaration & Reconciliation of production and machine hours.
• Track total waste trends and share weekly updates

JOB REQUIREMENTS: 

• Grade 12 with accounting and 1-2 years’ relevant experience, preferably within a FMCG environment
• 3 Year tertiary Finance / Logistics qualification / ASCM accredited.
• Computer literate, with SAP exposure

Deadline:21st August,2025