Planner

The incumbent will be responsible for maintaining optimal stock cover at each location, ensuring minimum distribution costs, liaising with internal stakeholders across the supply chain lifecycle , to execute necessary changes & communicate effectively to internal key stakeholders and support business needs. Additionally, the incumbent will have to be flexible to work in shifts.

Roles & Responsibilities

Fuel Distribution Planning

• Ensure precise, cost-effective fuel supply planning and lowest unit cost delivered for the trucks planned.
• Planning indicator summarization, analyses, and reporting.
• Fulfil operational goals and objectives to achieve optimal fleet planning metrics (HSE, Load size, drop size, productivity, P&L (in house) etc)
• Liaise with Supply or sourcing, operations, BU fuel team and execute on actions to always ensure efficient value chain.
• Handle calls and address operational issues during shift.
• Liaison with other units in the company to gain planning improvements.
• Support improvement projects or new systems implementations as needed.
• Pro-active approach to suggest solutions to customer complaints.

Operational Excellence

• Monitor activities within fuel stations to ensure sufficient inventory levels.
• Ensure ownership of HSSE targets & compliance within distribution together with operations managers
• Ensuring efficient fleet planning performance metrics (Drop size, load size, productivity etc.)

Stakeholder Management

• Proactively recommend multiple approaches along with their pros & cons to the business stakeholders and support making the right decisions
• Collaborate closely with colleagues inside and outside Global Fuels and Circle K, to drive business results

*24*7 Operations, shift work is required to cover at all times of the operations.

Education

• Bachelors degree or equivalent
• Strong mathematical and analytics skills evident in education.

Relevant Experience

• 0-3 years minimum relevant experience from logistics and operations planning.

• Fluency in English, both written and oral

Behavioural Skills

• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving approach as well as detail-oriented personality.
• Innovation and agility
• Hands-on & reliable with attention to details
• Global mindset capable of working with multi-cultures

Technical Skills

• Demand Planning
• Distribution Planning
• Fleet Management