[Talent Pool] Material Planning Manager

[Talent Pool] Material Planning Manager
Unilever Kenya-Nairobi-Nairobi
Job description
Description

Unilever implements a proactive approach in expanding our Talent Pool - to reach out to prospective candidates while we don't have a current vacancy so that when an opportunity eventually arises, we will promptly get in contact to share more.

We are now expanding our Talent Pool for Material Planning Manager.Responsibilities: 

Materials Planning 

• Establish material requirements for Production Plans with the use of MRP Planned Orders.
• Monitor Stock levels and ensure material availability for current production requirements. Establish and maintain appropriate safety stock levels.
• Highlight material constraints that could impact production plans
• Communicate with suppliers on material requirement forecasts on an ongoing basis.Purchasing
• Raise Purchase orders and call offs to suppliers based on planned requirements
• Follow-up on supplier confirmation of Purchase Orders and shipments.

• Monitor shipments of all imported materials and take action when necessary to ensure timely arrival of material on site, thereby avoid disruption to production plans.
• Co-ordinate with Internal Logistics to ensure availability of all imported materials at BUL
• Establish requirements of specified packaging materials both local and imported based medium term requirements. Place purchase orders and issue call offs according to Production Schedules.
• Liase with Suppliers on rejected materials or short shipped consignments.Co-ordinate on sourcing issues
• Co-ordinate with Planners / Sourcing on new raw and packaging materials.
• Provide data to establish Supplier Performance rating.Materials Requirement Planning (MRP)
• Ensure MRP (planning) and call-off procedures are followed.
• Update MRP Master Data.
• Obtain information on MOQ, shipping and clearance lead-times and update planning information in Fourth Shift.

Requirements: 

• University Degree
• At least 3 Years experience of procuring local and imported materials and dealing with overseas suppliers
• High analytical skills
• Advance excel skills
• Familiar with MRP systems (SAP, Fourth Shift etc)
• Should have good interpersonal skills
• Planning and organizing skills

** Only qualified candidates will be progressed to next step.

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Asst Engineering Manager [Talent Pool]

Asst Engineering Manager [Talent Pool]
Unilever Kenya-Nairobi-Nairobi
Job description
Description
Unilever implements a proactive approach in expanding our Talent Pool - to reach out to prospective candidates while we don't have a current vacancy so that when an opportunity eventually arises, we will promptly get in contact to share more.
We are now expanding our Talent Pool for Assistant Engineering Manager
Responsibilities:

• Fully responsible for maintaining plant and equipment and providing engineering cover for the Factory, to ensure safe, efficient and reliable performance of all plants and equipment as well as maintenance of buildings and structures.
  
• To initiate and manage programmes to reduce cost, minimise waste, improve efficiency and machine uptime, reliability, quality and safety
  
• Ensures that maintenance plans are achieved at the agreed budget costs and in a safe manner.
  
• Ensures the efficient and effective maintenance and repair of all plants, equipment and building.
  
• Co-operates with the Manufacturing Excellence Manager in the planning and execution of TPM, training and cost savings/efficiency programmes.
  
• Responsible for the implementation of the Company Safety Policy in the Engineering Department, Particularly with respect to policy awareness and Conformance.
  
• Ensures prudent and judicious management of the maintenance and repairs budget to ensure optimum benefit.
  
• Submits to the Plant Manager capital proposals for the Department.
  
• Carries out any special projects assigned him by the Plant Manager and Engineering Manager.
  
• Responsible for the management of his staff on such matters as safety, training, maintenance, recruitment and welfare.
  
• Compiles, maintains and ensures compliance with safe and efficient maintenance and engineering procedures.
  
• Liaises with Development Department/Asst. Production Managers for the modification of process plants and equipment in the management of the innovation process for new products and processes.
  
• Initiates and manages waste minimisation programmes and reduce effluent loads on the environment.
  Requirements:
  
  • Minimum BSc. in Engineering.
    
  • 3-5 years of experience in Engineering Management.
    
  • Knowledge in Maintenance planning and execution
    
  • Excellent leadership skills.
    ** Only qualified candidates will be progressed to next step.
    

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IT Specialist vacancy

IT Specialist vacancy
IBM - Kenya
Job description
Provide project leadership in the IT Operations group to guide and direct implementation of infrastructure, systems, applications and technical integration activities. The individual will be responsible for managing project resources, planning, scheduling and monitoring for achieving successful implementations of key infrastructure and IT Operations components of business application initiatives.
Organize, manage, and lead multiple project implementations in a fast-paced IT environment across multiple functional teams.

• Manage and perform implementation of technical solutions, applications and systems.
  

• Lead infrastructure, technical system and application implementation discussions with technical engineers, contractors and vendors.
  

• Provide oversight and direction to implementation team to ensure the deployment meets the project specs and requirements.
  

• Develop integration plans using multiple vendor products.
  

• Participate in and/or lead cross-functional team resolving technical troubleshooting.
  

• Act as a technical liaison with all business partners, vendors and stakeholders.
  

• Extensive experience in IT infrastructure managing large scale infrastructure project implementation including servers, networks, SAN and NAS, databases, data warehousing and enterprise applications.
  

• Extensive work experience in data centers build out and migration supporting different environments: dev/test, QA, staging and production, etc.
  

• Experience in virtualization technology implementation for IT infrastructure and IT enterprise applications.
  

• Extensive experience in project/program management, procurement, resource management, scheduling, planning, deployment, support and training including experience in working within PMO, Change Management and Governance types of environments.
  

• Excellent understanding of process management, improvement practices, change management process, operation services.
  

• Excellent training and presentation skills with solid communication capabilities and practices, both oral and written.
  

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work cross functionally with other leaders.
  

• 5+ years experience in a technical project/program management role managing cross functional projects, end-to-end implementation and deployment.
  Required
  

• Bachelor's Degree
  
• At least 5 years experience in Business controls, time management and ability to multi task
  
• English: Fluent
  

Preferred

• Engineering
  
• At least 8 years experience in Business controls, time management and ability to multi task

Additional information
10+ years overall work experience in the technical industry preferably in IT/ Technical Operations organizations in supporting worldwide enterprise infrastructure, systems and applications.

• Experience working in a global environment, leading teams located in multiple regions.
  Minimum 10 years’ experience, supporting large scale enterprises and delivering small to mid-size IT Projects.
  

• IT certification (ITIL) or equivalent preferred.
  

• PMP Certification preferred.
  
  IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
  

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