Planning Manager

Cape Herb & Spice has grown from entrepreneurial roots into a global FMCG player, employing over 500 people and operating across 3 sites in Cape Town. Cantered around innovation and quality, Cape Herb and Spice gives any candidate a great opportunity to gain extensive international experience and build an exciting career.

Our Gifting Division is driven by the love of food coupled with uncompromising expertise in design, food trend forecasting and packaging technology.

We are looking for a meticulous, reliable and experienced production planner/people manager to oversee this Division

Job Objectives:

• Production and Demand Planning
• People management
• Driving continuous improvement activities
• Planning and alignment with Warehouse teams, NPD, Procurement, Sales and Finance

Key Functional Areas:

• Oversee the Gifting production department to ensure output, efficiency, quality, cost and other relevant KPI’s are achieved.
• Demand planning and resource management considering seasonal fluctuations and sales targets.
• Update production plans in line with required dispatch dates and available capacity.
• Drive continuous improvement, production efficiencies and cost reduction projects
• Inform the sales team on a regular basis of the status of open orders and proactively communicate any delays and issues to them.
• Provide input on production lead times and other requirements for new product developments.
• Provide forecasts and production plans to the procurement team
• Work with the Warehouse managers and quality department to assure the materials required are available and in line with production requirements
• Provide input to finance and account teams on order commitments 
• Perform administrative tasks required to provide necessary data and information to the business.
• Provide input to support continuous improvement within the production and support departments.

Required Knowledge & Skills:

• Excellent Computer literacy skills (Windows operating system and Microsoft Office)
• Experience working on an MRP System (experience in Syspro would be advantageous)
• Advanced Excel skills

Required Prior Learning/ Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Planning experience
• Trained in Lean/WCM practices will be to your advantage.
• Experience in a FMCG or food manufacturing environment will be to your advantage.

Personal Characteristics:

• Strong leadership skills
• Strong analytical, planning and organizing skills
• Continuous improvement mindset with ability to follow through on the implementation of changes
• Very good communicator with ability to lead and work with various people and teams
• Problem analysis and problem-solving skills with focus on solution-oriented approaches
• Excellent interpersonal skills to effectively interact with production teams and all other areas and levels of the business
• Proactive and logical thinker
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to work in a highly pressurized environment
• Deadline driven individual
• Resilience

If you have not received a response within two weeks of submission, kindly consider your application unsuccessful.

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HR Contact:Mary-Rose Wrigley

Enquire now:recruitment@capeherb.co.za

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