ABOUT US
As a rapidly growing world-class organisation with a global footprint spanning every step of the food journey – join us to create food the world loves to eat!
Our people are innovative, with a diversity of expertise, working together with our customers to create value at every opportunity.
We are constantly looking for problem solvers who combine creativity with passion in our quest in to deliver fresh, natural, and convenient food solutions across the globe.
Your future in food starts here | Planning Specialist
THE OPPORTUNITY
Location: Birtinya, Sunshine Coast
The Planning Specialist plays a pivotal role in integrating demand and supply planning to drive forecast accuracy, optimise inventory, and support high customer service levels. This role partners closely with Sales, Production, and Operations to translate demand signals into executable supply plans, enabling agile decision-making across the supply chain. By balancing customer requirements with capacity and inventory constraints, the Planning Specialist contributes directly to customer satisfaction, working capital optimisation, and overall business performance.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop and maintain accurate demand forecasts in collaboration with Sales, using historical data, market trends, and customer insights across red meat product ranges.
- Integrate demand forecasts into forward production, logistics, and livestock planning to enable efficient, end-to-end supply planning.
- Translate demand signals into executable supply and production plans aligned with capacity and inventory constraints.
- Maintain optimal inventory levels by ensuring future production is allocated and sold, while actively managing unsold or unallocated stock.
- Provide timely and accurate advice to the business to support effective product distribution decisions.
- Manage and maintain the sales order book to ensure alignment with sales order strategy, data integrity, and accuracy.
- Oversee sales order engineering processes, including substitution strategies, to maximise sales outcomes and mitigate product availability risks.
- Deliver high levels of customer service excellence through defined service standards and effective problem-solving methodologies.
- Provide timely advice to customers on stock movements, shipping schedules, and product specifications.
- Maintain a detailed communication register for all product movements and customer interactions.
- Resolve ineffective communication that may result in adverse operational or customer outcomes.
- Work closely with Sales, Production, Logistics, and Supply Chain teams to ensure alignment of planning activities with business objectives.
- Effectively receive, analyse, and distribute data across departments to support production and logistics planning.
ABOUT YOU
- 3-5 years of experience in demand planning or supply chain planning
- Prior experience in FMCG, food or manufacturing environments
- Tertiary qualification in Supply Chain, Business or related discipline
- Analytical mindset with whole business thinking, able to conduct forecast reviews by account.
- Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills, as well as strong skills as a facilitator to reach consensus, buy-in and commitment.
- Stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
- High Level of Microsoft Excel experience
- Able to provide insight and quickly identify a way forward when presented with challenges.
- Promote and work to continuously improve systems and process development to best practice.
- Demonstrated resilience and ability to quickly engage with change.
BENEFITS
- Remove heavy traffic from your daily commute
- An organisation where cultural diversity is celebrated
- Access to professional Financial Planning services
- Access to discounted premium meat
HOW TO APPLY
- If you are looking to join a company that promotes innovation, is a leader in industry and champions success, then apply now.
- We are an equal opportunity employer and make every effort to select the best qualified individual for the job based on job related qualifications and experiences. Some of the information we collect via your application form and resume is “personal” information as defined by the Privacy Act. All information provided via your application form and resume is treated as confidential.
