Production Planner at Diageo

Key Responsibilities: 

Production Planning 

• Drive the production planning process, ensuring the creation of feasible and robust plans that meet market requirements. 
• Manage the supply network plan (frozen period to planning horizon) for the assigned business area to deliver target OTIFNE service and inventory levels. 
• Translate demand signals into an achievable production plan that meets customer expectations. 
• Produce weekly and monthly reporting, including KPIs, health trackers, risk assessments, and SKU exceptions. 
• Collaborate with Production Site Management and schedulers to ensure seamless execution of plans. 
• Address supply disruptions through consensus-driven solutions or escalation where required. 
• Support innovation by aligning production planning to new product launches and improving speed to market. 
• Identify risks and opportunities across the supply plan and communicate these effectively to stakeholders. 
• Conduct root cause analysis across multiple information streams to support codification and continuous improvement.

Data Management 

• Maintain and update planning parameters within SAP APO to ensure accurate and reliable planning outputs. 
• Ensure operational capacities, constraints, and resources are accurately reflected in the system. 
• Continuously review demand signals within the planning horizon and adjust planning assumptions accordingly. 
• Evaluate batch sizes, cycle frequencies, MOQs and stock levels to drive optimal market availability. 

S&OP Leadership 

• Represent Supply Planning within the S&OP process, ensuring supply and demand are effectively balanced. 
• Lead the Market Supply Review for your assigned market, providing clear insights and recommendations to support decision-making.

Capacity Planning 

• Regularly reassess production site capacity and highlight constraints or potential issues to the Supply Planning Manager and local market stakeholders. 
• Recommend solutions to mitigate capacity imbalances and protect service levels.

Innovation & Inventory Management 

• Monitor innovation inventory levels on an ongoing basis. 
• Partner with Supply and Commercial teams to manage stock-outs, stock breaches, and exceptional scenarios. 
• Identify potential SLOBs, assess risks of write-offs, and input findings into the S&OP cycle.