Demand Planner - Citrus / Agriculture

• Receive
  and analyse production forecasts
  
• Monitor daily
  changes in production, expected volume, variety packed, count/size distribution
  and grade distribution
  
• Identify
  changes between forecast and actual production
  
• Receive and analyse customer
  demand from commercial team.
  
• Understand commercial demand
  by customer, and customer requirements by variety, grade and count
  
• Identify shortages, excesses
  and potential stock risks
  
• Identify products that need
  alternative customers, and where sales should be increased or reduced
  
• Advise the
  commercial team on what’s available to sell, shortages, excesses, and where
  substitutions or exchanges may be required
  
• Recommend
  which customers should receive specific fruit, prioritising strategic customers
  and the best commercial return – based of the commercial strategy provided
  
• Help the
  business avoid overselling a variety, count or grade, underutilising available
  fruit, or allocating the wrong fruit to the wrong customer
  
• Own the
  company’s pack plans
  
• Prepare the
  demand analysis before weekly commercial meetings
  
• Translate
  demand into practical pack requirements and adjust plans as production changes
  
• Monitor
  whether pack plans are being achieved and identify deviations early
  
• Present the
  pack plans to the commercial and production teams on a weekly basis
  
• Analyse
  budgeted production vs actual production. Identify reasons for variances.
  
• Maintain
  direct communication with packhouses on expected production, packing dates,
  produce orders, grade and count splits, quality information, and delays or
  unexpected changes
  
• Maintain
  direct communication with the production teams in the packhouses
  

Requirements

• Grade
  12
  
• Degree in
  engineering / industrial engineering
  
• Ideally an
  industrial engineering background
  
• Minimum of 2 years
  relevant experience, preferably gained in the citrus industry  
  
• Advanced
  Microsoft Excel skills
  
• The ability
  to code / develop systems is a strong advantage
  
• ​Valid
  drivers licence and own transport