Job Openings at Cargill

Job Purpose and Impact

The Supply and Inventory Planner will coordinate supply and inventory planning for one of our sales products in South Africa to address capacity issues and production location decisions in support of business goals. In this role, you will monitor key integrated business planning performance indicators, cost to serve performance data and help coordinate the company's cross functional work teams to meet high customer service standards.

Key Accountabilities

• Maintain data relevant to network distribution planning activities including capacity, constraint, logistics, supplier, master, and location data.
• Create requirements plan and long term supply plan for assigned products and locations as input for the integrated business planning cycle.
• Participate in the creation of inventory planning metrics targets.
• Develop gap coverage plans during inventory shortages.
• Generate and execute cycle stock and safety stock plans for the assigned product or location, using the approved supply plan inputs.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of three years of related work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in supply and inventory planning
• Good understanding of statistics, forecasting, and supply chain planning
• MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint), PowerBI & SAP 

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Job Purpose and Impact

The Supply Chain Lead will lead and provide direction to supervisors and analysts, overseeing all day to day supply chain activities across a country or single site operation. In this role, you will design, propose and implement logistic and supply chain strategies, guidelines and procedures to meet requirements supporting short and long term business needs.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of four years of related work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Two years of supervisory experience
• Seven years of experience, with at least three in supply and inventory planning
• Six Sigma certification a plus 

Key Accountabilities

• Participate in selection of direct reports and other employees.
• Reconcile and review supply and demand calculations for a medium or small team and evaluate moderately complex analyses of the data.
• Collaborate with our team to handle key contacts within the commercial team, operations, and Cargill Transportation & Logistics.
• Participate on a country or single-site team to construct forecasting, demand planning and allocation planning for a tactical outlook.
• Provide general oversight, guidance and integration of multiple areas in the Cargill supply chain such as customer service, supply chain planning, strategic sourcing/procurement, plant operations, and transportation and logistics.
• Lead and develop a team, coach and make decisions related to talent management, hiring, performance, and disciplinary actions