Production Planner

Production & MRP Planner 

Glanbia Ireland is a world class, ambitious, integrated agri-food and nutrition business, with a diverse portfolio of quality ingredients, leading consumer and agri brands with the proven talent to succeed in the global market.

Glanbia Ireland owns leading consumer and agri brands such as Avonmore, Kilmeaden Cheese, Premier Milk, Wexford, mymilkman.ie and GAIN Animal Nutrition. It processes a 2.6 billion litre milk pool from 21 counties and exports high quality dairy and agri ingredients as well as branded products to over 60 countries.

With annual revenue of €1.8 billion, Glanbia Ireland has 11 processing plants, 53 agri branches and over 1,800 employees. 
 

Overview 

The Production Planner reports to the Production Planning Manager (Consumer and Ingredients) and plans, organizes and coordinates production schedules. This position is tasked with continually balancing and rebalancing resources (such as equipment, raw materials and staffing) in effectively deploying a production schedule that allows manufacturing to run as efficiently as possible while meeting customer expectations

Responsibilities 

• Plan, organize and coordinate production schedules, continually balance resources (such as equipment, raw materials and staffing)
• Define weekly / daily production plans based on the agreed monthly Integrated plan and operational constraints; make adjustments to accommodate near-term customer orders that differ from the agreed S&OP plan
• Create weekly production plans in SAP and track production variance(s) to plan
• Define inventory plans  and ownership to ensure proper coverage, accurate planning and allocation of stock to specific customer orders
• Ensure packaging / ingredient stock availability to meet production requirements based on safety stock and safety time management practices, warehousing requirements, and working capital impact(s)
• Work closely with Purchasing personnel to consider external vendor inputs and outputs to determine options for component management
• Provide input and analysis into the monthly S&OP process to ensure alignment between Integrated monthly plan and production plans
• Liaise with Third Party manufacturers and plan production, as required
• Measure, analyse and report key process metrics, and monitor adherence to key performance indicators (KPIs). Analyse data to drive insights to inform decision making across key stakeholder groups.
• Participate in cross functional projects across the business

Requirements 

Competencies 

• Dealing with Ambiguity
• Interpersonal Savvy
• Drive for Results
• Negotiating
• Planning
• Problem Solving

Experience 

• Analytical and critical thinking skills
• Participation in S&OP process
• Experience in the use of  SAP planning tools is desirable
• Hands-on experience with inventory management, manufacturing resource planning (MRP)
• Supply & Production planning experience
• Working collaboratively across multiple functions, Excellent communication 
• Judgement skills and ability to leverage information
• Understanding production capabilities and capacities in relation to customer and manufacturing specifications
• APICS / IIPMM qualified advantageous