Sourcing Unit Planner at Flora Food Group in Nairobi, Kenya

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    Sourcing Unit Planner

    Flora Food GroupNairobi, Kenya

    Posted

    1 week ago

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    26 Aug

    Full Time
    On Site
    Mid
    Manufacturing & Warehousing
    Supply Chain & Procurement

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    Job Description

    We are looking for a highly analytical and proactive Sourcing Unit Planner to play a critical role in ensuring the reliable delivery of customer demand through world-class production planning, inventory optimization, and capacity management. Reporting to the Head of Factory -Kenya, this role sits at the heart of our factory operations, connecting demand, supply, manufacturing, and procurement to drive service excellence and operational efficiency.

    Key Responsibilities

    • Translating demand forecasts into executable production plans that ensure consistent product availability and customer service
    • Optimizing factory capacity, production schedules, and resource utilization to improve operational performance
    • Ensuring material availability while maintaining healthy inventory levels and supporting working capital objectives
    • Driving planning excellence through Integrated Business Planning IBP, data-driven decision making, and continuous improvement initiatives
    • Partnering with stakeholders across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Procurement, and Demand Planning to manage risks and enable seamless execution
    • Contribute to improvements in customer service and product availability, Forecast accuracy and planning effectiveness, production plan attainment and schedule adherence, capacity utilization and operational efficiency, inventory performance and material availability.

    Required Qualifications

    • Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Business Management, or a related field
    • 3-5 years' experience in production, supply, or manufacturing planning
    • Experience within FMCG, food manufacturing, consumer goods, pharmaceutical, or industrial manufacturing environments
    • Hands-on experience in Integrated Business Planning IBP, Master Production Scheduling MPS and Detailed Production Scheduling DPS using SAP or similar Advanced Planning Systems
    • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and effective stakeholder management skills
    • A continuous improvement mindset with the ability to influence and drive results across teams.

    Job Details

    Job Function

    Supply Chain & Procurement

    Minimum Experience

    3 years

    Education Level

    Bachelor’s Degree

    Area of Study

    Business

    Field of Study

    Supply Chain Management

    Additional Information

    How to Apply: Interested and qualified? Go to Flora Food Group on www.florafoodgroup.com to apply.

    Show Your Planning Chops: From Forecast to Factory Floor

    This role lives where demand meets supply. Hiring managers will probe how you turn a forecast into a feasible schedule, keep inventory healthy, and keep stakeholders aligned when things shift.

    1. Prove your SAP planning fluency: Be ready to walk through a specific planning cycle in SAP or a similar APS. Mention the transactions or modules you used (like PP/DS) and how you handled exceptions like material shortages or capacity overloads.

    2. Quantify your impact: Use numbers to show what you improved: service level, schedule adherence, inventory turns, or forecast accuracy. Even a 5% gain in one metric shows you measure and act.

    3. Show your IBP experience: Integrated Business Planning is more than a tool—it's a way of aligning functions. Describe a time you used IBP to resolve a demand-supply conflict or improve a S&OP process.

    4. Prepare for scenario questions: Expect questions like 'What do you do if a key material is delayed?' or 'How do you prioritize orders when capacity is tight?' Practice structured answers that show your decision framework.

    5. Highlight stakeholder management: Planning is a cross-functional role. Give an example of how you influenced manufacturing, procurement, or sales to achieve a planning goal without direct authority.

    6. Know the FMCG context: Understand the pace, seasonality, and short lead times of food or consumer goods. Mention any experience with perishables, promotions, or new product launches.

    7. Show continuous improvement: Planning is never static. Talk about a process improvement you initiated—like reducing changeover time or improving data accuracy—and the result.

    8. Ask sharp questions: In your interview, ask about the current planning tools, the biggest planning pain points, or how IBP is embedded. It shows you're thinking about the role's real challenges.

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    Tags

    production planning
    inventory optimization
    SAP
    IBP
    MPS