East Africa Production and Scheduling Coordinator

Qualifications and Experience:

• A bachelor's degree in business, Agriculture., Engineering, or related fields.
  
• At least 10 years' experience in seed manufacturing operations and management or planning.
  
• MS Office software (Excel, E-mail, Word, Project etc.)
  
• Interpersonal and communication skills
  
• Results focused with ability to work on own initiative
  
• Strong teamwork (flexibility to work across the areas and positively influencing others)
  
• Establish clear direction and making decisions on a timely manner
  
• Fluent in English
  
• ISO training-desirable
  

• Plan and schedule production related activities across three sites in East Africa with key objective of creating transparency in the execution
  

  of the crop plans for the locations.
  

• In liaison with country production leads ensures accurate crop yield forecasting to achieve 95% crop plan adherence.
  
• In liaison with the Field Mission teams, develops crop delivery plans and ensures attainment of at least 95% harvest adherence.
  
• Coordinate on time Field sampling for SNP testing to achieve defined Turn-Around-Time and results on hand before harvesting commences.
  
• In liaison with the in-season planning mission team, the role coordinates the processing plan and ensures Processing Plan Adherence of atleast 95%.
  

• In liaison with the East Africa procurement lead, ensures all production consumables in line with the crop forecast are on hand prior to the
  

  production campaign.
  

• Coordinate KPI reporting for Tier 3 meetings and in S&OP and S&OE.
  
• Work with the Production Warehouse team to ensure seed is moved to finished goods warehouses.
  
• In liaison with Site Production Coordinators ensures Inventory visibility in SAP.
  
• Ensures weekly reporting of production status. The report will go out every Monday to all identified stakeholders.
  
• Maintain planning and scheduling records as required by the QMS management systems.
  
• Ensure compliance with quality assurance standards and management system set by ISO9001:2015.
  
• Provide information and insights on planning activities.
  
• Participate in 5WHY problem solving identifying corrective and preventative actions.
  

• Actively participate in implementation of the site safety program, lead ESH efforts, and aid and arrange for resources to promote site safety
  

  in line with ISO45001 standards.
  

• Adhere to all applicable legislation, Bayer safety policies and procedures