Planners at Tetra Pak Nigeria

Tetra Pak - Which takes its name from the original tetrahedron-shaped cartons it developed - manufactures and markets food packaging containers, filling systems, and distribution equipment for industrial customers in more than 170 countries. Its coated-paperboard boxes are used to hold dry, wet, cold, and shelf-stable foods and beverages. The privately-owned company is the largest subsidiary of holding company Tetra Laval International.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Planner

Ref No: LAG00001V
Location: Lagos
  
Responsibilities

• Execute resource planning and scheduling of the FSO field force and the TeSu System Specialists for a defined FSO area. Plan and schedule the service deliveries, the OFCE ItP projects and the TS projects in a timely manner and with a high level of quality and stakeholder involvement, ensuring the right competence is assigned to the right demand at the right time and at the right cost.
• Coordinate, develop and deliver all planned and unplanned Field activities to TS management Team.
• Ensure required tools, systems, man-power, and facilities have been harmonized and are made available to minimize operational impact and ensure the successful completion of all planned workload and travel for vacation coverage when required
• Evaluate current and future planned workloads for required resources to optimize man-power, and facilities to support future schedules/plans.
• Manage resources performance for optimal utilization of available resources while maintaining focus on reliability, cost and daily operational performance and implement changes to improve efficiency
• Builds and maintains a professional relationship with all levels in Technical Dept
• Effectively communicates with all stakeholders to make sure that planned activities will be done on-time with correct competence.
• Use Tetra Pak systems, tools and visual management to facilitate daily work, area improvement, extract reports, and achieve results.
• Share best practices and collaborates with service planning in the cluster to optimize utilization and solve issues.
• Execute market alignment with OFSP Processes in Cluster GMEA level and global standards.

Key Challenges:

• Communicate and engage stakeholders to drive results
• Manage diversity
• Reduce operational cost
• Optimize resources utilization – market level and cluster level
• Continues improvement
• Work under stress
• Effective communication
• Strategic thinking
• Good understanding of resources competence and capabilities
• Awareness of market demands 

Key Stakeholders:

• Cluster Operations Mgr.
• All in TS Dept. at local market
• FSO Cluster service Operations team
• OFSP CPD
• TS top Management

Qualifications

• University graduate, preferably in Business Administration or Commercial/Technical degree/diploma
• Experience: Minimum 3-4 years. Experience of Planning or similar position.
• Experience in planning of field resource capacity is important.
• Language: Fluent in local language, Excellent in English language.
• Skills: Excellent in handling computer system technologies and able to learn new systems.

Application Closing Date
Ongoing.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidate should:
Click here to apply online