Title:  Production Planning & Inventory Control Specialist (Initiatives Planner)

The Production Planning & Inventory Control Specialist (Initiatives Planner) is responsible for overall initiatives planning and project management of Business units/Commissaries to be produced in JFC commissaries. Scope of work includes New products, Limited Time Offer (LTO), Reformulation, New Market, Expansion of existing product to other commissary

Job Description:

• Leading the project from kick off to launch. Project work group composed of R&D, Manufacturing, QA, Procurement, Accounts Management (AM), Production and Category Material Planning, Manufacturing Excellence Team (MET), Site Logistics, Supply Chain Finance (SCF), Engineering and others as needed by the project.
• Coordinating timely and quality execution of the activities in the project timeline (CPS – critical path schedule) to ensure launch timing is met. Works on options/acceleration opportunities with the team to mitigate risk on launch. Timely escalation of barriers to stakeholders for issue resolution.
• Coordinating capacity and risk assessments, trials, validation, endorsement, and commercial run.
• Coordinating and ensuring timely completion of SAP set-ups, manufacturing documents, regulatory requirements (as needed), and other requirements as deemed necessary by the project
• Coordinating and ensuring RM availability. Secures all needed document to enable material ordering and coordinates with Category Material Planner for supply planning and ordering execution.
• Timely endorsement/turn-over to Production Planner and Material Planner.
• Securing and aligning remnants plan to Marketing and ensures actual remnants are within the aligned budget. Ensures remnants are disposed no later than 3 months from the last run/usage of the item.

Job Qualifications: 

• Graduate of any 4 years Business Course but preferably Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering.
• With at least 3 years experience in production planning in project management on product launch and heavy on coordination with different stakeholders (Marketing, R&D, Procurement, Manufacturing, and Supply Planning) is a must.
• Must be knowledgable in Excel / ERP / MRP-MPS / SAP and other Microsoft application.
• Willing to work on a hybrid set-up in Canlubang, Laguna.

Zenith Foods Corporation, the hiring entity, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Jollibee Foods Corporation.