Production Planner at Avon

Role Type

Permanent

What You'll Be Doing

• Ensuring the highest possible service level is achieved by strategically optimizing product flow through the supply chain.
• Stabilize New Product Development (NPD) agenda and deliver NPD on time in full.
• Effectively minimize inventory cost and control functions to planning department standards.
• Minimize Air freight spend through effective forward planning and SLA management.

Key Responsibilities

• Balance daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly supply and demand issues whilst maintaining inventory targets.
• Liaison with local and regional planners, marketing and sales to ensure service delivery.
• Facilitating Risk Review meetings.
• Collating and processing of statistical information.
• Proactively liaise with stakeholders in the supply chain to improve service levels, reduce inventory, and air freight cost.
• Evaluating purchase orders to create suitable production schedules.
• Preparation of Supply review slides.
• Version control – responsible for system accuracy.
• Analyze stock on hand figures to actively drive down inventory days.
• Manage the NPD process and Stage gate from initiation to Completion to order placement to CM’S.
• Campaign readiness preparation report – to highlight operational consequences and needs.
• Concorde system setup before campaign go-live date.
• Run down stock quantities in readiness for new product entries and phase outs (Status Conversion) - (PIPO).
• Liaise and support the marketing department on any initiatives to deplete excess ,aged or discontinued stock items through Inventory reduction initiatives.
• Promptly addressing and resolving production issues to minimize delays in production.
• Recommending viable solutions to reduce production costs as well as improve production processes and product quality.
• Estimating the amount of material, equipment, and labour required for production.
• Manage the Red List/ Expired Materials at All CM’s.
• Recommending viable solutions to reduce production costs as well as improve production processes and product quality.
• Manage the complete Gifting process.

We'd Love You To Have

• Relevant University Degree (pref. Supply Chain Related).
• Proven experience working as a production planner.
• Proficiency in all Microsoft Office applications.
• Sound knowledge of material requirements planning (MRP) and related software.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Effective communication skills.
• Demonstrated knowledge of best in class supply chain and planning practices.
• Demonstrated knowledge of lean supply chain practices
• Proven experience in implementing supply chain agility improvements.
• Problem solving will be a daily activity for this person as the demand volatility and supply constraints occur on an ongoing basis will require quick yet analytical thin