Production Planning Manager

**Posted**:
03/02/2025

**Closing Date**:
03/03/2025

**Job Type**:
Permanent - Full Time

**Location**:
Somerville

**Job Category**:
Strategy & Planning

We've been proudly bringing joy to tables and smiles to faces with the delicious food we've been crafting for over 100 years.

A large part of our strong growth and success is because we're always looking for new ways to do things and thinking about how we can create a better, more sustainable future world together.

Our success as an industry leader in providing deliciously good food means we can continue to invest in our future as we work towards becoming Australia and New Zealand's first choice for poultry.

Job Description

**Your opportunity to join our Planning Team**

Inghams is a fast-paced stable company that offers a diverse working environment, where the safety of our people always comes first. In our Operations Supply Planning division we are hard-working team players and problem solvers who are passionate about improving efficiencies and delivering the highest quality product to our customers.

Inghams VIC/TAS is seeking a Production Planning Manager who will drive and develop the site planning team in a range of planning activities. This role will be based at Inghams Primary Processing site in Somerville, Victoria.

**Responsibilities include**
- Work closely with the Plant Manager, Engineering Manager and Distribution Manager. You will be part of the national supply planning team to generate master production plans and schedules to effectively fulfil the end to end supply chain requirements.
- Manage and develop the site planning team, ensure clear KPI's and development plans are set.
- Capture the process constraints and further optimise tools required.
- Monitor and measure actual production versus schedule and plan how to maximise the output.
- Create reporting to provide insights on critical performance areas.
- Conduct analysis and use historical data to assist in identifying resource improvement opportunities.
- Understand enterprise agreements to ensure labour practices are compliant across the business.
- Work with Livestock supply team to develop optimal factory plans, weekly and daily agility.
- Work closely with distribution team and the replenishment teams, to optimise interstate transfers and overall demand fulfilment
- Collaborate with replenishment and sales teams on managing inventory exceptions

**You will bring to this role**
- Experience and knowledge of managing a planning function in a complex working environment. Ideally within the FMCG, manufacturing or distribution industry. Short shelf life industry preferred.
- Excellent analytical skills with the strong capabilities of working with multiple pieces of data and transforming them into meaningful relevant information for the wider business to understand.
- Advanced Microsoft Skills, High fluency in Excel is essential.
- Passionate about driving continuous improvement initiatives, with the ability to understand the business effect especially in areas such as safety and quality.
- Inclusive in management style, with the capabilities to engage a team, create a collaborative working environment.
- Ability to coach and develop others, monitor and measure performance and provide direct feedback.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders both internal and external to the organisation.

**Qualifications/Licences**
- Tertiary qualification in Business or similar discipline, APICS (ASCI) or other supply chain qualifications seen as highly regarded.
- If you regularly come into contact with pigs or birds.
- If anyone living in the same residence as you works in other poultry or pig operations.

We're looking for people who are curious, caring, courageous and committed to join us. People who want to contribute their best work every single day and continue delivering delicious food that'sAlways Good.