PepsiCo

Makes salty snacks, sodas and sports drinks

Material Requirements Planning Lead

Production Planning & SchedulingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeNew Cairo City, Cairo Governorate, EgyptNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

Six to eight years of experience in an associated function.
Experience in supply chain planning, including demand planning, supply planning, and/or material planning.
Proven management skills and the ability to optimize team performance and development, including managing 6–9 direct reports.
High-level knowledge and understanding of end-to-end planning systems and processes.
Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work with other functions and departments to address critical challenges resulting from market changes or changes in technical, manufacturing, or end-to-end planning processes.
Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to interrogate data and produce detailed outputs.
Proficiency in Excel.
Team lead experience.
Problem-solving skills and analytical skills.
Ability to work independently in a multitasking environment.
Ability to apply supply chain principles, with extensive knowledge of material requirements planning and production planning.
Skills in query and reporting tools, spreadsheet applications, and presentation tools.

Responsibilities

Lead the material planning team for a specific category in the cluster.
Own weekly and daily material plans and issue purchase orders to materials suppliers.
Lead discussions with factory supply planners for in-scope materials.
Collaborate daily with CCC Supply Planning to align materials with production plans.
Share the 16-week plan with the Central Material Planning team for snacks and with suppliers for beverages.
Coordinate material product introductions, phase-ins, and phase-outs with the Innovation Coordinator to ensure timely delivery of new launches while minimizing obsolete materials.
Highlight material risks that could interrupt manufacturing to Supply Planning and RemainCo teams.
Provide insights through management reports.
Lead daily and weekly collaboration with suppliers to ensure timely delivery of materials.
Perform end-to-end inventory analytics, including business wastage and excess inventory, and work toward reducing inventory.
Deliver material planning key performance indicators and root cause analyses of issues.
Manage supplier key performance indicators and lead improvements or escalations when performance declines.
Analyze reasons for plan failures and work with internal teams to resolve issues.
Apply market best practices to delivery.
Manage a group of material requirements planning team members, including 6–9 planners, innovation coordinators, and master data management staff.
Adopt current systems and lead standardization and compliance targets for the Material Planning area.
Develop tools with IT teams.
Apply robotic process automation in existing delivery.

Desired Qualifications

An MBA in Operations, Supply Chain, or Engineering.
Experience with any enterprise resource planning system.

Overview

Reporting into cross category Cluster Head, the Material Requirements Planning lead is responsible for the cluster MRP planning activities in GCC for a particular category, ensuring the ongoing availability of materials to support the production plans and hence satisfy the market demand. Responsible for MRP planners, and is the Point of escalation in Global Business Service.

This role is the main interface between the GCC Planning Hub and the Market and GCC Supply Planning for materials Planning collaborating with the operations teams and market planners to ensure market plans are adopted and service levels and working capital targets are met

Responsibilities

Lead the Material Planning team for a specific category for the cluster
Accountable for the weekly/daily material plans and issuing POs (purchase orders) to materials suppliers
Front end the discussion with Factory Supply planners for in scope materials
Daily collaboration with CCC Supply Planning to match materials to production plans
Accountable for sharing the 16 weeks plan to Central Material planning team(Snacks) and with suppliers for beverages
Coordinate material PIPO with Innovation coordinator ensuring on time delivery of new launches with minimum possible obsoletes
Highlight any material risk that might cause manufacturing interruption to Supply Planning and RemainCo teams
Provide insights through various management reports
Leads daily/weekly collaboration with suppliers to ensure on time delivery of materials
End to End inventory analytics (ex-Business wastage, excess inventory) including target of reducing inventory
Deliver all material planning KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and RCA (Root Cause Analysis) of issues
Manager suppliers KPIs and leads the improvement and/or escalation of any declined performance
Analyse the reason for plan failures and work with internal team to fix the issues
Bring best practice of market to the delivery
Manage the group of MRP team members (6– 9 MRP planners & innovation coordinators, MDMs)
Responsible for adopting the current systems and leads the run to standard agenda and compliance targets for Material Planning area
Developing tools with the help of IT teams
Apply RPA (Robotic Process Automation) in the existing delivery

Qualifications

Qualifications:

MBA Operations/Supply Chain/ Engineering (preferred)
Experience – 6 to 8 years in associated function
Experienced in Supply Chain Planning (demand, supply planning and/or material plannings)
Proven management skills with the ability to optimise team performance and development (6 – 9 direct reports) at L6 and L7
High level of knowledge & understanding of the E2E planning systems & processes and experience with any ERP system (preferred)
Strong collaboration skills and an ability to work with other functions / departments to address critical challenges as a result of market change or changes in technical, manufacturing or End to end planning processes.
Strong analytical skills with a keen eye for detail, able to interrogate data and produce detailed outputs.
Proficiency in Excel

Abilities:

Team lead experience
Team oriented and collaborative
Problem solving know-how
Analytic skills
Excellent communication and relation building skills
Ability to work independently in a multi-task environment
Application of Supply chain principles with extensive knowledge in MRP & Production planning
Skills in query/reporting tools , spreadsheet applications and presentations

About the Company

PepsiCo

Makes salty snacks, sodas and sports drinks

PepsiCo makes snack foods and soft drinks that supermarkets, convenience stores and restaurants sell around the world. It owns some of the most familiar grocery brands, including Lay's and Doritos chips from its Frito-Lay division and Pepsi, Mountain Dew and Gatorade on the drinks side, along with Quaker oats and cereals. The company runs its own plants and distribution network and earns most of its money selling finished products to retailers and foodservice customers, while partner bottlers produce some of its drinks under license. PepsiCo was formed in 1965 through the merger of Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay and is headquartered in Purchase, New York.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: Harrison, NY
Founded: 1965

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