Supply Planner

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

**About this opportunity**

As a supply planner located at our Hornsby Contract Manufacturing site you will build strong collaborative relationship with customers, planning and production teams to assist in aligning purchasing, demand and supply planning. You will assess, maintain master data and implement innovations and developments on our existing personal and home care products. You will work closely with internal & external stakeholders based on customer orders and forecasts to ensure targets and customer satisfaction are achieved.

**Your key responsibilities will be to**:

- Analyze demand including sales orders & forecasts in SAP, identify supply risks and work out the recovery plan with internal and external stakeholders.
- Carry out clear and effective communications between customers and the business, highlight any supply risks on a timely basis.
- Identify and address the reasons for any potential supply risks promptly then provide alternative plans to customers to approve on a timely basis.
- Discuss forward production plans with internal team to identify potential problems and resolve the issues at an early stage.
- Ensure that products are being made in time and discuss with customers their order priorities.
- Perform root cause analyses of DIFOT misses, out of stock and aged stock situations and implement improvements.
- Raise purchase orders with suppliers in a timely manner. Communicate with suppliers for expediting or delaying orders to ensure packaging is available as per the production schedule
- Assess profitability and feasibility of innovations and developments on existing products through product costing and coordination with the production team
- Assist and support Internal Audits and External Audits.

**Your skills and experience**

To be successful in this role, you’ll have:

- High level interpersonal skills with ability to work collaboratively with the team
- Strong knowledge and experience with SAP or other ERP system with the ability to embrace and learn modern technology.
- Experience in a similar role, FMCG will he highly regarded.
- High level attention to detail and problem-solving skills as well as strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Solid Excel skills, including VLOOKUP, Pivot table etc.
- Organizational and time management skills with willingness to deliver to deadlines.

Additional Information
**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.