Supply Planner

Role overview

Nestlé is seeking a Supply & IMS Planner for its Bryanston office in Gauteng, South Africa. The role focuses on creating supply and production plans that fit available capacity, support customer demand, and maintain freshness, stock availability, and cost efficiency.

Guided by a 150+ year legacy, the company emphasizes continuous improvement, operational excellence, and delivering finished goods to the right location at the right time with the required service level.

Key responsibilities

• Review supply plans and net dispatch needs, taking network complexity and supply limits into account, and maintain an 18-month production plan for the factory in scope.
• Manage inventory so that product availability is protected while stock holding costs stay as low as possible.
• Handle planning exceptions, make prioritization decisions or escalate for arbitration where needed, and update plans accordingly.
• Set and track short- and long-term production requirements and ensure production plans are followed through.
• Maintain strong customer service levels for domestic and Inter-Market Supply customers while meeting working capital and freshness targets and limiting bad goods impact.
• Define finished-goods stock policies for Inter-Market Supply with receiving-market planners and regularly review domestic and receiving-market stock levels to address deviations early.
• Identify volume-variance issues that could affect supply and improve logistics and supply-planning processes, tools, and methods to deliver measurable benefits such as time savings and better efficiency.
• Work with manufacturing teams to manage lot sizes and cycle times, and support demand planners in improving forecast accuracy and demand planning quality.

Qualifications and experience

• A degree, national diploma, or B-Tech in Industrial Engineering, or a similar qualification where Planning or Logistics was a major focus.
• At least 2 years of relevant operational experience at market or business level.
• Useful background in production planning, supply network planning, IMS planning, or related demand and supply planning roles.

Additional information

Location: Bryanston, Gauteng, South Africa.

Closing date: 18 June 2026.