Overview

Position Title: Production Scheduler

Company: Diageo

Location: Glasgow, UK

Job Description:

Our Global Beer category brews and packages 7mHls of beer at 3 sites across Ireland and the UK. The Supply Chain Planning team interprets demand signals from Domestic and Export Markets and translates these into supply, replenishment and scheduled production plans, with the objective of optimising customer service, inventory, capacity and cost.

Responsibilities:

  • The function is responding to increasing SKUs, packaging and component complexity, and it is operating in environments that are becoming increasingly utilised from a supply perspective.
  • Our planning function is building a world class organisation that is based on standardised processes, ways of working and employing best practice in planning approaches to support delivery of the Diageo performance ambition.
  • You will be responsible for producing clear and concise scheduled production plans to guarantee availability of product to meet customer demand on time and in full to world-class standards while maximising production efficiency.
  • Managing short term capacity horizon at 2 packaging plants and rework sites to meet requirements and avoid outsourcing costs.
  • Building and maintain excellent relationships with key partners at all levels throughout Diageo and use these relationships to deliver the Beer category strategy.
  • You’ll initiate, lead and action Dry Goods inventory holding plans to control stocks of materials and to avoid write off costs for all markets supplied.
  • Play a lead role in run and improve the business, Global Supply Chain Projects, Continuous Improvement agenda, Product Innovation and Renovation Processes, balancing need for flexibility with commitments to service, cost and quality.

Requirements:

  • To be successful in role you will have supply chain planning experience ideally within FMCG.
  • Ideally you will have good knowledge and understanding of Demand and Supply Planning, Operations, Logistics and Route to Market is desirable.
  • You will have excellent IT and numerical skills, to exploit benefits of SAP ECC6, SAP APO SNP, Business Warehouse and BEX Analyser.

About Diageo

As a global leader in beverage alcohol, our 200+ brands are part of everyday celebrations in over 180 countries. Our ambition? We want to be one of the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world.