Shift Leader

Pact Group is hiring a Shift Leader in Melbourne, VIC, focusing on sustainable packaging. The role involves managing forecasting, supply planning, and manufacturing scheduling to enhance plant performance. Key responsibilities include compiling forecasts, managing suppliers, and implementing supply chain improvements. Candidates should have strong analytical skills, advanced SAP and Excel experience, and a background in production planning, ideally in FMCG or pharmaceutical sectors.
Job Description

Our Pact Packaging division is pioneering a whole of product life cycle approach to sustainable packaging. Partnering with global brands to local dairy producers, we integrate supply chain efficiencies and sustainable practices into everything we design and manufacture.

About this opportunity

We specialise in the manufacture and supply of rigid plastic and metal packaging servicing for the consumer and industrial sectors.

As Supply and Demand Planner, you will perform a pivotal role as the conduit between supply planning and manufacturing scheduling.

This includes forecasting, demand & supply planning as well as the S&OP process to unlock capacity and maximise plant performance.

Your key responsibilities will be to:
• Manage the forecast compilation process, which includes owning the short-term weekly plan and the long-term forecast (three or more months)
• Manage suppliers with long lead times
• Implement supply chain improvement initiatives, ensuring the improvement of forecast accuracy and inventory levels
• Perform root-cause analysis for continuous plan improvement for key service issues, forecast error and bias
• Check, validate and update BOMs

Your skills and experience

To be successful in this role, you’ll have:
• A keen eye for detail
• Strong ability to question the status quo and challenge the business positively
• Advanced SAP and Excel experience
• An ability to understand and analyse data to develop trends and set direction for the business
• A formal qualification in a Supply Chain or Manufacturing related discipline
• Strong interpersonal, communication & presentation skills
• A Production Planning background, ideally gained within a FMCG or Pharmaceutical manufacturing environment

Additional Information

About us

Our vision is to lead the circular economy through packaging, reuse and recycling solutions. It’s a future-driven group commitment, designed to create lasting value.

We’re the largest plastics recycler in Australia and New Zealand and one of the region’s biggest user of recycled materials. We have 6,000+ team members, operate 110 manufacturing facilities across 15 countries, and our customers include some of the world’s largest brands that consumers know and trust.

As a global leader in circular and sustainable packaging solutions, we’ve committed to lead the circular economy through a $500 million investment plan.

For us, it’s about finding new and better ways of doing things. Ways to grow business, to give back to the environment and to enrich people’s lives every day.

Our promise is to create a better and more prosperous world all round.

That’s our future Pact. Let’s lead the way together.