As a Planning and fulfilment Manager, you will coordinate with various departments, and implement strategies to optimise production planning, order fulfilment, warehouse operations, and logistics. You will develop and maintain production schedules based on sales needs and plans. You will work closely with production managers, procurement teams, and others to ensure timely delivery of products while minimising costs and maximising efficiency. You will oversee the internal fulfilment process.
What would I be doing?
- Collaborate with the sales team, production, procurement, and other relevant teams/individuals to ensure seamless communication and coordination throughout the production process.
- Implement and optimise systems for order tracking, processing, and fulfilment.
- Ensure there is sufficient inventory in internal and external warehouses to meet customer orders, overseeing inventory levels, and managing inventory storage.
- Address any issues that may impact production timelines and work proactively to find solutions.
- Develop and maintain production schedules based on demand forecasts, production capacity, and inventory levels.
- Continuously monitor and adjust schedules to meet changing demands, production constraints, and customer requirements.
- Ensure that products are manufactured, packed, and shipped in accordance with production schedules.
- Work closely with logistics partners to optimise transportation routes, reduce delivery times, and minimise shipping costs.
- Utilise technology solutions, such as warehouse management systems (WMS) and order management systems (OMS), to streamline fulfilment processes and improve visibility.
- Continually assess and improve fulfilment processes to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve customer satisfaction.
What do I need?
- Experience in planning and/or fulfilment management or a similar role within a production company
- Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
- Familiarity with any production planning software, warehouse management systems and/or order management systems.
- Good understanding of logistics and transportation processes.
- Communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to build systems from scratch.
Bonus skills (wanted & prized, but optional)
- Experience in food or beverage production.
We offer:
- Trust and autonomy to develop and implement your ideas and solutions.
- We are planning to grow quite fast in the next couple of years so there will be lots of opportunities for taking over more responsibilities/areas etc.
- A good company of creators who love food, science, and art.
- Location: Domžale, Slovenia, on-site.
- Schedule: flexible.
- Salary: let’s talk, this is a new role for us so we are interested in your ideas about the package.
- Some other things (like mileage and lunch money and so on) that we probably take for granted by now but might be a game changer for you - give us a call, happy to give you more insights into anything you might be interested in.
September 2023 picnic group photo