Job Purpose Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. If you are an effective communicator, have high problem-solving skills, have great time management skills & high attention to detail then this role is just for you! You’ll be part of a team that believes in doing work that matters — for people and the planet.
Because here, we don’t just hire for jobs. We invite you to be part of something bigger.
Key Responsibilities Materials Planning:
- Ensure materials/FGI requirements are reflected in SAP.
- Establish material requirements for Production Plans with the use of MRP Planned Orders/Purchase Requisitions & Purchase Orders.
- Run & maintain IPM model.
- Monitor Stock levels and ensure material availability for current production requirements.
- Establish and maintain appropriate safety stock levels.
- Highlight material constraints that could impact production plans for the upcoming 3 months at least.
- Communicate with suppliers/Sourcing units on material requirement forecasts on an ongoing basis.
- Identify materials with continuous bottlenecks situations & plan to mitigate them or debottleneck them.
- Anticipate constraints in materials availability On Time In Full.
- Plan materials with near expiries or expired to replenish them.
- Plan new innovations or projects materials orders with alignment of Supply Planners & Innovation Planner respecting the innovation/projects network & alignments.
- Plan [To be delisted/To be obsolete] materials rundowns/depletion based on alignment of project network.
- Cross check with suppliers on materials development of projects/innovations.
Purchasing
- Raise Purchase orders and call offs to suppliers based on planned requirements.
- Follow-up on supplier confirmation of Purchase Orders and shipments.
- Monitor shipments of all imported materials and take action when necessary to ensure timely arrival of material on site, thereby avoid disruption to production plans.
- Co-ordinate with Internal Logistics to ensure availability of all imported materials
- Establish requirements of specified packaging materials both local and imported based medium-term requirements.
- Place purchase orders and issue call offs according to Production Schedules.
- Liaise with Suppliers on rejected materials or short shipped consignments.
Co-ordinate On Sourcing Issues
- Co-ordinate with Planners / Sourcing new raw and packaging materials.
- Provide data to establish Supplier Performance rating.
Sap
- Ensure MRP (planning) and call-off procedures are followed.
- Update MRP Master Data.
- Obtain information on MOQ, shipping and clearance lead-times and update planning information in SAP.
Reports
- Provide necessary information and maintain necessary records to enable proper control of inventory and prices
- Reports such as: Working Capital reports, Critical Material Report, Purchase Order Report, SLOBS List Report, Critical Materials Report (CMR), Neary Expiry Materials Report (Raw Materials Planning mainly).
Required Qualifications
- Engineering / Supply chain educational background.
- 1-3 years of experience in related field.
- At least 1 Year experience of procuring local and imported materials and dealing with overseas suppliers.
- Knowledge of the principles of Material Requirements Planning (MRP II).
- High analytical and communication skills.
- High problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Knowledge of analytical tools (Excel, Power BI,…) / familiarity with SAP is a big plus.
Preferred Qualifications
- Inventory management experience.
- FMCG / Foods / Beverages experience is preferable
- Fluency in English language.
- Time management skills
- Team player
Additional Information Working conditions:
- Hybrid – HPC Factory, Industrial Zone, 6th of October City – Egypt.
- Start date: May / June
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