Position Snapshot

Location: Nestle Dubai Manufacturing, Nestle Middle East Manufacturing UAE (Factories), Dubai

Division: Technical & Production

Reports to: Procurement and Planning Manager

Full-time

Position Summary:

Provide consistently short-term finite constrained production plans which are feasible, optimized and realistic that are sequenced with the agreed standard in daily buckets accordance with the availability of resources – production line, capacities, labor and materials.

• Cost & Service: Create a feasible production plan within the DPS period (next 4Weeks) that takes into consideration available capacity, Raw and Pack materials, available/optimized labor, optimized material losses to meet the customer service requirements (MSA, DSA and COF).
• Inventory & Cost: Align and ensure accurate planning master data a in the system and drive improvements. Schedule production plan to maximize line loading opportunities.
• Collaborative Planning: Drive continuous improvement in production planning by collaborating with Production, Demand and Supply Planning, Procurement and Supply Chain that positively impact business – cost, service, inventory and organizations key performance indicators. Support implementation of lean initiatives
• Growth: Work on innovation/renovation project teams to ensure production are planned on time to launches and relaunches.
• Process Compliance: Facilitates create alignment in Weekly Planning Review (WPR) and provide key outputs involving multiple functions in Monthly Production Planning Reviews (Demand & Supply Team, MRP Planners, Business Unit, Supply Chain & Factory) to ensure alignment between operations & business. Drive improvements in internal and cross-functional processes to ensure free flow of materials and information. Ensure compliance to audit points, standards and guideline. Provide daily/weekly alerts on production changes and minimize material wastes, write offs and additional factory and supply chain costs

What will make you successful?

• Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma
• Minimum 1-2 years operational experience in one of the following areas: MRP (Material Requirement Planning), Logistics Coordinator, Warehousing, Production, Production Planning, Demand & Supply Planning
• Good communication skills, Proactivity and ability to collaborate internally and externally
• Basic understanding of Consumer & Customer needs
• Ability to challenge the current status quo & drive continuous improvements.
• Ability to proactively look at details and trigger issues and opportunities
• Good knowledge on MS Office and Presentation Skills
• Understanding of Lean Value Stream would be an advantage
• Understanding of planning and inventory concepts would be beneficial

We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those individuals selected for an interview will be contacted.