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  • Posted: Feb 24, 2026
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    Site Planning Lead - BBG

    WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

    Production Scheduling

    • Schedule the factory resources optimally in line with the Master Production Schedule (MPS) provided by the L2 Planning Hub for week 0 to 1 horizon
    • Review previous week’s performance against schedule and agree production orders to be carried over
    • Align with factories to confirm inputs to line scheduling (eg. factory calendar, labour)
    • Create the production schedules in line with the MPS
    • Ensure that materials are available before presenting the production schedules to the factory for sign off
    • Ensure that production schedules are in line with warehouse capacity constraints
    • Align with the factory operations teams, challenge and adjust schedules as necessary and publish
    • Feed back to the L2 Planning Hub when adjustments are needed to improve the MPS in future
    • Incorporate in week adjustments as necessary - Innovations, Breakdowns, Unplanned Maintenance
    • Monitor and drive conformance of Operations to the production schedule
    • Act as point of contact between the factory and the L2 Hub i.e. communicate factory information needed by the L2 Hub to create an executable MPS
    • Monitor and manage volume of product left from change overs and rework activities
    • Propose adjustments to the MPS to E2E Planner to resolve constraints
    • Manage unexpected plan shutdowns or extraordinary events and communicate at the earliest opportunity to the L2 Hub
    • Convert Planned Orders to Process Orders
    • Flag any risks to delivering export specific volume to the Market Collaboration Planner
    • Flag any risks to delivering local and export (shared SKU) volume to the Market Collaboration Planner
    • Flag any short-term risks to the E2E Planner weekly before weekly Ops meeting
    • Work with the operations team to generate run sequences per line to minimise downtime and maximise output
    • Review previous week’s performance and root cause, adjust plans after checking carry overs.

    Output Reliability (OR):

    • Review previous week’s factory performance against plan (Latest Plan OR) and input into the weekly OR loss tree with sourcing unit input and consensus (owned by Ops).
    • Report on losses and plans to improve in weekly Ops meetings and S&OP Supply meeting, when required.

    Transition Management:

    • Execute material write offs at product launches, re-launches, SKU rationalisation, VIP projects, working closely with the E2E planner to ensure that all plans are optimised and run-out schedules are accurately maintained
    • Incorporate transition activities into the daily schedule e.g. schedule production trials
    • Provide input into MOC for FG

    Working Capital Management

    • Execute working capital reduction plan at site for Finished Goods through run strategy, EBQ optimization etc.
    • Flag any reduction opportunities with the Market Collaboration Planner.
    • Execute actions proposed by the Inventory Specialist and End to End Planners on Slow and Obsolete (SLOB) finished goods and ensure that provisions are raised timeously
    • Data Maintenance
    • Provide feedback to Parameter Optimisation Specialist to ensure run strategy is workable
    • Provide and validate input data to the Inventory Specialist for generation of the Inventory Planning Model and agree output prior to implementation
    • Provide and validate other planning master data required by the L2 Hub
    • Ensure proper maintenance of relevant data in the system as defined by the Master Data templates
    • Ensure accuracy of dynamic factory master data (e.g. changeover times)
    • Perform regular scheduling data health checks
    • Reporting
    • Work closely with supply planning team in updating customer service reports and providing information on recovery.
    • Capture OR Losses with sourcing unit stakeholders on a weekly basis (Latest Plan OR) and communicate to stakeholders.
    • Provide data for CCFOT loss analysis to the E2E Planner (losses pertaining to OR).
    • Support S&OP Supply Meeting preparation (and attendance), when required.

    WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

    Experiences & Qualifications

    • Tertiary degree with Supply Chain and/ or Business Management is preferred.
    • Engineering degree will also be considered, with experience in the general supply chain being an advantage
    • Further studies in supply chain, including a APICS/SAPICS qualification, would be beneficial
    • 1-3 Years exposure to broad based Supply Chain management.
    • A good understanding of, and the use of SAP is essential
    • Planning and functional business process knowledge
    • Commercial Acumen
    • Excellent communication skills and ability to influence stakeholders to achieve results
    • Strong change, service and agile mindset
    • Strong accountability and responsibility      
    • Understand ‘Make’ and ‘Source’ processes
    • Fully operational in ‘Plan’ processes
    • Experience in managing external parties.
    • Experience working and interacting with all levels in a business.
    • Strong planning knowledge
    • SAP and Kinaxis knowledge
    • End to end supply chain knowledge

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