# Supply Planning Manager

**Company**: Diageo
**Location**: Johannesburg, South Africa
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

We are seeking a Supply Planning Manager to lead the Material & Production Planning and Scheduling Process, and manage a high-performing team.

The successful candidate will have a strong background in supply chain management, with experience in distribution, warehousing, and scheduling.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading and developing the Supply Planning function to ensure required capabilities are continuously developed

- Building and maintaining excellent relationships with key stakeholders

- Owning functional KPIs, inventory management, and optimization for locally produced finished goods

- Representing the Supply Planning function within the TIER/S&OE/IBP processes

- Providing clear direction and prioritization of workload across the team

- Achieving best-in-class engagement scores

- Driving standardization and automation of systems and processes

- Championing service and driving reliability

The ideal candidate will have:

- A BSc in Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, or equivalent

- Ideally a master's degree in business or engineering

- 10+ years of experience across Supply Chain, Logistics, and Customer Service

- Minimum 5 years in senior leadership roles

- Proven experience leading large multifunctional teams

- Strong experience managing Supply Planning operations within FMCG

- Demonstrated experience leading transformation, process improvement, and organizational change

- Proven track record delivering service, cost, and cash objectives

- Strong systems experience, including SAP and related planning and reporting solutions

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## Skills

### Required
- MPS/MRP and DRP methodology
- distribution and warehousing
- supply chain optimization platforms
- influencing and stakeholder engagement
- communication skills
- customer-centric mindset
- SAP and related planning and reporting solutions

### Nice to have
- master's degree in business or engineering
- digital transformation

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