Cfi Material Planner

Overview:
To manage material planning agenda for snacks ensuring the delivery of the needed Finished Good timely without any business disruptions that may affect the AOP plan.

**Responsibilities**:

- Set daily and weekly raw & pack material plans and develop delivery schedules of raw and packaging materials.
- Set balanced need of material requirements to meet the production plan in order to fulfill both export & local markets demand and enable achieving sales AOP targets.
- Compare daily material’s opening stock versus the requirements according to the production plan and develop the material plans based on AOP then share it with the sourcing team.
- Review & govern RM stocks in partnership with manufacturing team, sales forecast figures and FG stocks.
- Issue purchase orders and create new items on SAP.
- Create return PO’s & review PO’s status monthly, update the POs and close the redundant ones.
- Assist and coordinate with Marketing Department in launching new products.
- Send delivery schedules to suppliers & RMWH team and follow up on suppliers to deliver based on the production plan and the available storage capacity.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor degree / engineering is a preferred
- Fluent in English and Arabic languages.
- 2 years’ experience SC preferably in Planning.
- Ability to deal with diverse backgrounds.
- Strong Analytical / Thinking skills to be able to identify opportunities.
- Good understanding of basic financial analysis.
- Strong communication & leadership skills.
- Strong Inter-personal Skills.
- Clearly demonstrate stock management skills ( FIFO, Stock cycle count, slow moving items,)
- Demonstrate credible relations with all internal and external client
- Supplier development experience