Master Production Planner

Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.

This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Master Production Planner will contribute to and create the long term monthly supply plan and facilitate material requirements planning aligned with near-term staffing activities. In this role, you will handle and support multiple product lines or sites with medium to high impact on working capital and ensure the connection between integrated business planning activities and tactical production execution.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide informal mentorship and training to other planners.
• Participate in setting master production planning metrics targets.
• Provide necessary input to supply planner to support integrated business.
• Handle feedback/escalations from Operations or other Production planners .
• Maintain data relevant to master production planning activities including planning calendars, material data and location data.
• Analyze plant capacity and production requisition data to resolve manufacturing plans and required resources.
• Hold self and others accountable to meet commitments and challenge targets
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.

Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Related experience in master production planning, production scheduling, or supply planning.
• Experience working on Master Planning projects.
• Strong continuous improvement mindset, preferably based on Lean Six Sigma principles.
• Ability to plan and prioritize work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.

Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.

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