Sales and Operations Planning

Rivalea is a leading integrated Australian agri-food company, with extensive agricultural, processing and marketing interests that support high quality pork production for Australian and export markets.

Previously known as Bunge and QAF, the business is over 50 years old. Now owned by global protein company JBS, Rivalea employs more than 1,000 people and offers outstanding career opportunities. The company operates across a number of farming, processing and distribution sites in New South Wales and Victoria.

**About the Role**

Due to the rapid growth of the Rivalea business, we are currently recruiting an experienced Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) Manager to join our Supply Chain team. Based at our processing site in Laverton, the newly appointed S&OP Manager will be responsible for improving the planning strategies for our three processing facilities ensuring operationally efficient methods and optimising resources. This position will collaborate across sales, farming and operations to deliver a sustainable competitive advantage for the company, customers and suppliers.
- Develop, execute and communicate a Master Production Schedule with a focus to manage and link sales requirements, farming requirements and operational capability
- Understand material and capacity constraints and provide feedback to stakeholders around predicted failures due to demand, supply or other changes
- Contribute to the ongoing refinement of the planning process, ensuring that the process is adapting to a changing environment
- Develop and monitor feasible production schedules taking into consideration production constraints
- Develop and monitor feasible farming deliverables taking into consideration livestock seasonality and growing trends
- Interact with commercial teams to shape demand when requirements cannot be met by suggesting and evaluating alternatives
- Work with operations to resolve manufacturing efficiency issues or production information as requested from operations, sales or finance
- Develop, implement, maintain and execute planning parameters within planning systems
- Run the supply review process ensuring long, medium and short-term capacity requirements are communicated within the business
- Drive effective communication with all stakeholders, supported by factual reporting and analysis
- Create cost contingency plans and scenarios, supported by the operational and finance teams
- Be an important player in the yearly the budget process

**About You**
- Tertiary qualifications in business, supply chain/materials management or related discipline
- Previous experience in planning production across large food manufacturing operations
- Solid experience in the production process, capacity planning, and scheduling techniques
- Strong knowledge of Integrated Business Planning, Integrated Tactical Planning and Demand Management
- Exceptional Distribution Requirements Planning abilities
- Proven experience in writing quality business documentation
- Proven experience in process improvement
- Experience in delivering high quality customer service, providing customers with options and solutions
- Ability to articulate key metrics and root causes of performance to stakeholders
- Ability to effectively manage people and leading teams including team building, fostering a positive learning culture and driving high performance
- High level verbal and written communication skills
- Strong experience engaging with and managing business stakeholders
- Strong experience with managing complex problem solving, and the ability to develop solutions to meet business outcome
- Exceptional experience in handling difficult behaviour and the ability to respond to a range of challenging behaviours in ways that de-escalate conflict
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to effectively manage, organise and prioritise multiple work assignments within a fast-paced environment

**What next?**
If you’re passionate and want to be a part of the largest meat, pork and salmon manufacturer and producer in Australia, this opportunity may be for you