Commercial Planning Executive

Company: Dawn Meats

Job Title: Commercial Planning Executive  

Location: Kildare town, Co. Kildare 

Contract type: Full-Time/Permanent 

Role Summary:

Dawn Meats is a premium meat processor and supplier of choice for a range of leading supermarket, foodservice and restaurant businesses. Established in 1980, Dawn Meats is an industry leader with annual revenues of over €2bn, employing over 7,300 staff in 15 countries and exporting to over 50 countries. The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing and producing efficient daily production plans in response to customer orders and forecasts. Using the planning model and various other factory systems to process all incoming orders ensuring they enter factory system to be ready for picking and revise daily plans accordingly. You will play a central role in communicating information between various departments. Furthermore, you will be responsible for planning and managing finished pack inventories, production batch control and raw material movements back to site and allocation into the factory.  

The successful candidate will work as part of the Commercial team and will be responsible for:

• Maintain service level of 99% as an average, or higher
• Create site capacity plan weekly and share with relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure clearly communicated plans drive effective utilisation of resources.
• Manage the team to ensure minimisation of stock write off of finished goods through effective planning.
• Constantly manage stock levels of all products to ensure stock maturation and that product is utilised in a timely manner to maximise the value of that product and eliminate stock write offs.
• Constantly and consistently review systems and procedures to ensure continuous improvements.
• Key point of contact between external and internal stakeholders. Communicate planning detail to each department as required. 
• Maintain product batches within the factory system.
• Validate daily customer orders.
• Oversee the raw material to ensure customer orders are met efficiently.
• Review raw material on daily basis, communicate with raw material planning to resolve issues wherever possible.
• Involvement in project work as required.

Key Requirements:

• A 3^rd level qualification in Business related field or similar.
• 2+ years’ work experience in planning or supply chain management.
• Familiarity with lean manufacturing principles, production scheduling methodologies, and supply chain management best practices.
• Good technical, communications, and interpersonal skills.

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