Materials Planner at Olam International Limited

Olam International is a leading food and agri-business supplying food, ingredients, feed and fibre to over 19,800 customers worldwide. Our value chain spans over 60 countries and includes farming, processing and distribution operations, as well as a sourcing network of 4.8 million farmers. Through our purpose to 'Re-imagine Global Agriculture and Food Systems', Olam aims to address the many challenges involved in meeting the needs of a growing global population, while achieving positive impact for farming communities, our planet and all our stakeholders. Headquartered and listed in Singapore, Olam currently ranks among the top 30 largest primary listed companies in terms of market capitalisation on SGX-ST.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Materials Planner

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Function: Not Applicable
Sub-Function: Not Applicable

Job Description

• Manages and ensure availability of locally sourced and imported raw/packaging materials.
• Maintain stock levels of ordered materials as per the agreed stock norms to help in achieving the supply chain objectives whilst optimising working capital and ensuring stock availability at the lowest cost.
• Materials Planning Manager is responsible for the management and communication of material forecasts with suppliers and pro-actively identifying and managing any potential supply constraints.
• S/he also manages supplier relationships and accountability in conjunction with Procurement and resolve materials supply issues or conflict escalations from other internal stakeholders.

Key Deliverables
Materials Requirements Planning:

• Stock is to be managed within working capital targets.
• Ensure regular update and maintenance of MRP Master Data.
• Monitor stock levels and work closely with the Procurement team and suppliers to ensure appropriate stock levels are maintained both on-site and at the suppliers to ensure that service level targets are met.
• Coordinate in conjunction with Procurement on material planning and sourcing activities.
• Keep track of materials usage versus BOM target and flag concerns to stakeholders accordingly.

Manage relationship with suppliers:

• Meet suppliers on a regular basis to identify and manage possible constraints, up to 52 weeks forward
• Work with Procurement to manage and ensure supply consistency and Supplier reliability. Provide data to establish and report Supplier performance rating scores.

Procurement:

• Ensure the timeous delivery of stocks to site and escalate to Procurement where required
• Track Working Capital of packaging and raw materials on a weekly basis.

Requirements
Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree / HND in any discipline from a reputable Institution
• Supply Chain (APICS etc) qualification (added advantage).

Experience:
Essential:

• 3 - 5 Years exposure to broad based procurement.
• Working Knowledge of Operations Planning / Supply Chain modelling and optimization
• Experience in managing external parties.
• Experience working and interacting with all levels in a business.

Preferred:

• FMCG experience.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.