Supply Planner at Sealand Gear

Sealed Air is a leading global provider of Hygiene and Packaging solutions for different sectors and has a vacancy for Planning and Logistics Manager to be based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

• The Supply Planneris responsible for all forecasting activities associated with customers and products.
• The Supply Planner creates and maintains forecast models for their customers, incorporating business intelligence and forecast information gathered from sales, marketing, finance, retailer replenishment analysts, and other sources (i.e.: Nielsen or other syndicated consumer data).
• The Supply Planneris the integration point into the sales and commercial organization. Forecast modelling is the responsibility of this position.
• This position leads the dialogue each month for their respective customers and products with key counterparts in Manufacturing, SCF and Sales.

Day To Day Responsibilities

• Develop demand forecasts (operational forecasts) at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons as part of a demand planning function.
• Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast results.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities to reconcile variances and refine the forecast model to reflect updated sales and marketing assumptions.
• Interact with manufacturing, sales, customer service, and SC finance to understand demand forecast drivers and put in place plans to meet the customer requirements.
• Utilize a collaborative and consensus approach by working with manufacturing, sales, customer service, and SC finance to obtain and ensure that current and accurate information is used for demand forecasts.
• Use and maintain the Demand Planning tools (including SAP) as the primary forecasting system tool.
• Provide input to the Supply Planning and Production Scheduling organization in developing inventory strategies on existing items, new products, and product phase-outs.
• Closely coordinate and communicate customer action plans with supply planning.
• Manage inventory levels in line with AOP.

Qualifications

• University degree in operations management or equivalent.
• Honours degree advantage.
• Experience in logistics processes and experience with logistics tenders including provider selection.
• Planning and S&OP experience.
• Experience with IT systems.
• Working knowledge of SAP an advantage.
• Master in Excel.
• APICS certification (or similar) an advantage.