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About us

Our vision is to lead the circular economy through packaging, reuse and recycling solutions. It’s a future-driven group commitment, designed to create lasting value.

We’re the largest plastics recycler in Australia and New Zealand and one of the region’s biggest user of recycled materials. We have 6,000+ team members, operate 110 manufacturing facilities across 15 countries, and our customers include some of the world’s largest brands that consumers know and trust.

As a global leader in circular and sustainable packaging solutions, we’ve committed to lead the circular economy through a $500 million investment plan.

For us, it’s about finding new and better ways of doing things. Ways to grow business, to give back to the environment and to enrich people’s lives every day.

Our promise is to create a better and more prosperous world all round.

That’s our future Pact. Let’s lead the way together.

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Company Description

Our Pact Packaging division is pioneering a whole of product life cycle approach to sustainable packaging. Partnering with global brands to local dairy producers, we integrate supply chain efficiencies and sustainable practices into everything we design and manufacture.

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Job Description

Reporting to the Plant Manager – Closures and Speciality, the Planning Manager will perform a pivotal role to the plant, looking after forecast, demand & supply planning as well as the S&OP process.

Your key focus is to be the conduit between supply planning and manufacturing scheduling, bringing your exceptional forecasting and demand planning skills to improve stock availability and ensure we have the right products in a timely manner to meet our customers’ needs.

Whilst no two days will look the same, this role will see you:

• Manage forecast compilation process, which includes owning the short-term weekly plan and the long-term forecast (three or more months)
• Manage a large number of suppliers with long lead time
• Implement supply chain improvement initiatives, ensuring the improvement of forecast accuracy and inventory levels.
• Perform root-cause analysis for continuous plan improvement for key service issues, forecast error and bias
• Work closely with both production and suppliers to maximize production planning and capacity, particularly during peak periods

About you

With your keen eye for detail and a formal qualification in a Supply Chain or Manufacturing related discipline, as the ideal candidate, you will also possess:

• Production Planning background (ideally gained within a FMCG or Pharmaceutical manufacturing environment)
• Strong interpersonal, communication & presentation skills
• Strong ability to question the status quo and challenge the business positively
• Advanced SAP and Excel skills
• Ability to understand and analyse data to develop trends and set direction for the business.

If you are excited to be part of a great team that is striving to succeed and grow sustainable Australian manufacturing – please come and join us!

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