MRP & Production Scheduling Manager - FMCG

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the team to reach operational goals with a hands‑on approach, ensuring alignment and seamless execution across functions.
• Lead and develop the MRP and production scheduling activities, ensuring accurate planning and seamless execution across functions.
• Build and maintain short-, mid-, and long-term production plans (daily/weekly/monthly), balancing capacity, constraints, and demand priorities.
• Own the MRP process, ensuring accurate parameter setting (lead times, safety stocks, reorder points) and accurate supply planning.
• Ensure material availability (raw materials, components, semi-finished goods) in line with production requirements and service level targets.
• Optimize production sequencing and scheduling, minimizing setup times, improving line efficiency, and reducing downtime.
• Act as the central coordination point between production, supply chain, procurement, logistics, maintenance, and quality.
• Manage planning deviations and disruptions (machine breakdowns, shortages, urgent orders), ensuring rapid re-planning and continuity.
• Drive and monitor Factory Reliability KPIs related to planning accuracy, adherence, and service level.
• Maintain full control of inventory planning, ensuring the right balance between availability, working capital, and obsolescence.
• Ensure alignment between system and physical stock, improving inventory accuracy and root-cause resolution of discrepancies.
• Collaborate with procurement to ensure supplier reliability and inbound flow optimization, based on forecast and consumption analysis.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives on MRP processes, planning tools, and material flow efficiency.