Production Planning And Inventory Control Specialist Initiatives Planner

Jollibee Group North America; Calamba; Hybrid; PHP 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Zenith Foods Corporation, the hiring entity and a subsidiary of Jollibee Foods Corporation, seeks a Production Planning & Inventory Control Specialist to drive initiatives planning for new products, LTOs, reformulations, and market expansions across commissaries.

You will coordinate cross-functional teams (R&D, Manufacturing, QA, Procurement, AM, Production, MET, and more) to drive on-time launches, manage capacity, and ensure SAP setups and RM availability align with budget targets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field.
• Experience in production planning and project management for launches.
• Proficient with Excel, ERP systems, SAP and MS Office.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives planning from kick-off to launch with cross-functional teams.
• Coordinate project timelines and critical path to ensure timely launches.
• Assess capacity, run trials, and coordinate regulatory/production requirements as needed.
• Ensure SAP set-ups and material planning activities are completed on time.
• Align and secure RM availability and hand over to Production/Material Planners.
• Manage remnants planning and budget-aligned disposal timelines.

Skills

Project coordination

Cross-functional collaboration

Production planning

Stakeholder management

Education

4-year business degree

Industrial Engineering degree

Tools

Excel

ERP

MRP-MPS

SAP

MS Office

Job description

Job Description:

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 CategoryMaterial Planning, Manufacturing Excellence Team (MET), Site Logistics, Supply ChainFinance (SCF), Engineering and others as needed by the project.
• Coordinating timely and quality execution of the activities in the project timeline (CPS - criticalpath schedule) to ensure launch timing is met. Works on options/acceleration opportunities withthe team to mitigate risk on launch. Timely escalation of barriers to stakeholders for issueresolution.
• Coordinating capacity and risk assessments, trials, validation, endorsement, and commercialrun.
• Coordinating and ensuring timely completion of SAP set-ups, manufacturing documents,regulatory requirements (as needed), and other requirements as deemed necessary by theproject
• Coordinating and ensuring RM availability. Secures all needed document to enable materialordering and coordinates with Category Material Planner for supply planning and orderingexecution.
• 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.