AVI Ltd. is known for its leading household brands across many categories including hot beverages, sweet and savoury biscuits, and snacks, frozen convenience foods, personal care products, cosmetics, shoes, accessories, and fashion apparel.NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED operates 5 manufacturing sites, offering world-class manufacturing facilities in Isando (Johannesburg), Rosslyn (Pretoria), Westmead, and Durban (KZN). It is home to some of the best-known South African tea, coffee, and creamer brands, including our delicious range of much-loved savoury and sweet biscuits, and our melt-in-your-mouth snack range.An exciting opportunity exists within NBL for a Supply Planner. The successful candidate will report to the Planning Manager and will be based in Bryanston.Job Specification:Key Performance Areas:Manage service levels - Targets set by the business.Provide a production plan each week.Manage finished good stock levels within predetermined target days cover (this includes stock builds for promotions, line shutdowns, and peak build for seasonality).Work closely with the Factories, Sales, and Marketing teams to ensure that stock is available when needed.Work closely with the distribution and the deployment team to ensure that all regions have sufficient stock to meet the demand.Manage forecast accuracy - Set by the business.Run monthly forecasting meetings.Maintain planning parameters within SAP and Barnton Planning tool.Manage new product launches to ensure that suitable stock covers are achieved before the launch date.Hold weekly feedback sessions to highlight service level, production, stock, or sales issues with key stakeholders in the various business units.Take part in monthly New Product Development meetings to discuss new products and available capacity etc.Do weekly/monthly reporting as required.Be able to do scenario planning and give feedback to the business units on capacity constraints and the view going forward.Collaboration with the Customer DC Planners and/or Deployment Planners.Experience:At least 8 years' experience gained in an FMCG environment of which a minimum of 5 years' experience as a Planner in FMCG AVI Ltd. is known for its leading household brands across many categories including hot beverages, sweet and savoury biscuits, and snacks, frozen convenience foods, personal care products, cosmetics, shoes, accessories, and fashion apparel.NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED operates 5 manufacturing sites, offering world-class manufacturing facilities in Isando (Johannesburg), Rosslyn (Pretoria), Westmead, and Durban (KZN). It is home to some of the best-known South African tea, coffee, and creamer brands, including our delicious range of much-loved savoury and sweet biscuits, and our melt-in-your-mouth snack range.An exciting opportunity exists within NBL for a Supply Planner. The successful candidate will report to the Planning Manager and will be based in Bryanston.Job Specification:Key Performance Areas:Minimum Requirements:Manage service levels - Targets set by the business.Provide a production plan each week.Manage finished good stock levels within predetermined target days cover (this includes stock builds for promotions, line shutdowns, and peak build for seasonality).Work closely with the Factories, Sales, and Marketing teams to ensure that stock is available when needed.Work closely with the distribution and the deployment team to ensure that all regions have sufficient stock to meet the demand.Manage forecast accuracy - Set by the business.Run monthly forecasting meetings.Maintain planning parameters within SAP and Barnton Planning tool.Manage new product launches to ensure that suitable stock covers are achieved before the launch date.Hold weekly feedback sessions to highlight service level, production, stock, or sales issues with key stakeholders in the various business units.Take part in monthly New Product Development meetings to discuss new products and available capacity etc.Do weekly/monthly reporting as required.Be able to do scenario planning and give feedback to the business units on capacity constraints and the view going forward.Collaboration with the Customer DC Planners and/or Deployment Planners.Experience:At least 8 years' experience gained in an FMCG environment of which a minimum of 5 years' experience as a Planner in FMCGQualifications: A completed degree or equivalent qualification in Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Procurement or similarCPIM will be advantageousAdditional Requirements:SAP experience requiredExperience using Barnton or any other Supply Chain planning softwareAdvanced MS Excel skillsMS PowerPoint skills (presentations)FMCG experienceCompetencies:Analysing DataDeciding and initiating actionRelating and NetworkingPlanning and organisingDelivering Results AVI LIMITED is home to many of South Africa's leading and best-loved brands. Listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in the Food Products sector, AVI's extensive brand portfolio includes more than 50 brands. Our single-minded purpose is our brands growth and development. Our brands span a range of categories including: hot beverages, sweet and savoury biscuits and snacks, frozen convenience foods, out-of-home ranges, personal care products, cosmetics, shoes, accessories, and fashion apparel.AVI's brands have grown into great South African favourites including: Five Roses, Freshpak, House of Coffees, Frisco, Koffiehuis and Ellis Brown in the Beverages category; Bakers, Pyotts, Willards and Provita in the Biscuits and Snacks category; I&J in the Frozen Foods category; as well as Ciro, Lavazza and Douwe Egberts Cafitesse for the Out Of Home market. Our beauty and personal care brands include Yardley, Lentheric and Coty Great international and local Fashion Brands in the AVI stable include Spitz, Carvela, Kurt Geiger, Lacoste, Gant and Green Cross Shoes. We have a well-developed shared services structure spanning: International, IT, Finance, Logistics, Marketing, Procurement and Field Marketing that allows us to take advantage of our scale.AVI's brands are a household name in South Africa and growing every day.
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