Assistant Manager, Planning

About the role

Lead production and shipment planning activities to ensure customer requirements, production capacity, and delivery schedules are properly aligned. Develop and monitor monthly production plans, weekly shipment plans, packaging plans, and volume outlooks. Oversee export sheets and PO monitoring, ensuring accurate and timely updates on production, shipment, sample approvals, and commercial changes. Coordinate with Production, Sales, QA, Finance, Purchasing, Logistics, Shipping, and Warehouse to ensure smooth execution of production and shipment plans.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the production and shipment planning activities to ensure customer requirements, production capacity, and delivery schedules are properly aligned
• Develop and monitor monthly production plans, weekly shipment plans, packaging plans, and volume outlooks
• Oversee the Export Sheet and PO monitoring, ensuring accurate and timely updates on production, shipment, sample approvals, and commercial changes
• Monitor RBD requirements and lifting activities, including copra deliveries, exposure, inventory aging, copra cake withdrawals, and lifted stocks
• Manage and monitor VCO and DC tolling/outsourcing activities, ensuring production schedules, volumes, materials, and finished goods are aligned with requirements
• Lead daily shipment coordination and shipment calls, resolving operational constraints that may affect delivery commitments
• Coordinate with Purchasing on the delivery schedule and availability of packaging materials to support production requirements
• Monitor outsourcing and tolling costs, billing, and overdue transactions in coordination with Finance
• Identify planning and operational gaps and implement corrective actions and process improvements to improve production efficiency, inventory utilization, and on-time shipment performance
• Provide leadership and guidance to planning personnel and ensure accurate, timely, and reliable planning information for decision-making

About you

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, Accounting, or any related discipline
• At least five (5) years experience in Production Planning & Inventory Control (PPIC)
• Managerial experience in PPIC is an advantage
• Senior Supervisor/Assistant Manager experience is an advantage
• Production Planning & Scheduling
• Demand & Capacity Planning
• Shipment & Inventory Planning
• Tolling & Outsourcing Management
• SAP/ERP Systems
• Advanced Microsoft Excel & Data Analysis
• KPI Monitoring & Reporting
• Cross functional coordination