From humble beginnings to extraordinary futures, Diageo is centred on crafting incredible stories of ambitious possibilities. From our iconic global brands such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Tanqueray and Don Julio, to our local homegrown heroes Bundaberg Rum, UDL and Reeftip, we are a team of pioneers, looking to lead the future of our industry and brands from today. At Diageo, you will be a chosen custodian of our brand portfolio, entrusted with building brands for consumers to celebrate with in the moments that matter. Alongside you will be a group of ambitious, passionate and innovative people, who will help you to achieve extraordinary heights. Together, you will help us create a future worth celebrating.
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Reporting to the Site Operations Manager - Mr Black and with dotted line reporting to the Supply Planning Manager, the Materials and Production Planner is responsible for managing and optimizing inventory levels, ensuring timely replenishment of materials, labour availability for bulk liquid production, and scheduling the production plan for Mr Black production.
This role ensures the reliable supply of Mr Black products through accurate planning to demand, on time ordering of materials and scheduling of 3rd party bottling operations. The role will also support the Mr Black site through the timely completion of other ad-hoc administrative tasks and reporting.
What does this role look like for you?
- Manage day-to-day relationships with sites and suppliers.
- Identify and implement opportunities for value creation and cost avoidance.
- Manage inventory holdings based on production requirements, contractual obligations, and warehouse space.
- Ensure materials are available at the right time and place for Site WG1 and Hunter bottling.
- Ensure timely replenishment of ingredients to support the production plan.
- Follow up on order reports and expedite orders to meet production deadlines.
- Review MRP requirements and take necessary actions.
- Provide regular reports and feedback to management on project progress, critical issues, and inventory status.
- Perform other administrative tasks as required to maintain the Mr Black Operations.
- Collect and report on data as required.
- Clear all outstanding invoices (GRNI).
- Ensure Production staff availability for Bulk Production as required.
What will you bring to the table?
- Demonstrated experience within the FMCG industry.
- Previous experience in planning, materials planning, procurement, or strategic sourcing and replenishment roles.
- Familiarity and experience with planning, and replenishment systems. Preference is experience in SAP.
- Demonstrated ability to work and make decisions in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment.
- Clear communication skills, both verbally and in written form.
- Proven ability to build and maintain relationships with vendors, production personnel, and other stakeholders.
- Proven ability to solve and address stock outages or delivery problems promptly.
- Analytical capacity and attention to detail in managing inventory and planning processes.
What are the benefits?
We are an organisation that creates products that are part of celebrations, and our culture reflects this. At Diageo, you will have the ability to work flexibly to ensure you can unlock your own potential through creating bold plans and executing your vision.
You will also be rewarded through competitive salary and monetary benefits including bonus, flexible leave entitlements and product allowance as well as being supported via non-monetary benefits including an industry leading parental leave policy, volunteering days and workplace giving, and subscriptions to mental health and fitness platforms.
Our commitment to inclusion and diversity:
We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.
Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don't let anything stop you from applying.
At Diageo, we pride ourselves on our fast paced, bold and agile culture. In order to ensure we're supporting the performance ambitions of our team, applications for this role will close 8th October 2024.