About this role
Supply Planner
We are Africa’s premier Agribusiness company solving problems in agriculture and ensuring food availability through efficient farming and food production methods, thereby raising agribusiness models.
Supply Planner
- Job Type Full Time
- Qualification BA/BSc/HND
- Experience 3 - 6 years
- Location Lagos
- Job Field Procurement / Store-keeping / Supply Chain
Job Summary
- The Supply Planner is responsible for ensuring the continuous availability of raw materials and finished products across both local and export markets, while actively managing inventory health and supporting new product introductions.
- Operating in a fast-paced, Excel-driven environment, the role demands strong analytical discipline, proactive risk identification, and structured communication with commercial and operations stakeholders.
- The successful candidate will own a defined portfolio of SKUs for both local and export markets, maintain planning rigour across the full replenishment cycle, and contribute meaningfully to working capital improvement and supply risk reduction
Principal Accountabilities
Supply Planning & Inventory Management:
- Maintains stock cover, safety stock levels and replenishment schedules for a defined portfolio of raw materials and finished products for the Nigeria market.
- Develop and drive execution of supply plans for locally produced finished products and leads weekly production planning discussions.
- Leads end-to-end intercompany replenishments from providing visibility via purchase forecasts, to firming orders with production planners in line with agreed lead time and demand signals to ensuring timely delivery of shipments to warehouses through careful coordination with the imports team.
- Manage import planning cycles (intercompany raw materials and imported finished products), tracking shipment ETAs and flagging deviations proactively.
- Ensure zero out-of-stock events, especially for Class A & B finished product items and all directly managed raw materials
Export Supply Compliance:
- Coordinate export supply requirements in line with the aligned out from the Supply Review Meeting (SRM) and ensure compliance.
- Plan and confirm stuffing schedules for export requirements with the Customer Excellence and Logistics team, and drive zero missed vessel schedules.
- Proactively communicate shortfalls and supply risks to the export market representatives.
SLOB and Working Capital Management:
- Proactively identify SKUs at risk of entering SLOB status and escalate recommended actions to prevent it.
- Drive reduction of current finished goods SLOB profile through coordination with commercial stakeholders.
- Track and report slow-moving and SLOB stoc