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Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

The key purpose of this role is to maximize business value, enhance overall value chain predictability and performance through improved sales forecast accuracy and effective portfolio management. The Demand Planning Specialist will do this by analysing and enriching statistical forecasts and collaborating with commercial teams, ensuring alignment and consensus on both weekly and monthly forecasts for release to the supply chain, while optimizing the product portfolio.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Support and Manage Zone LCP as per Scope Requirement (E.g. Demand Planning, Portfolio, Management, S&OP)
• Prepare, Manage and Facilitate key Demand and Portfolio routines (E.g. S&OE, S&OP, Portfolio Review, Demand Review, Supply Review)
  
  

• Oversee the generation and validation of statistical forecasting outputs, ensuring the application of best-fit models and appropriate disaggregation across relevant time horizons.
• Drive Touchless Demand Planning through enriched statistical forecasting and improved statistical forecast accuracy.
  
  

• Champion commercial enrichment initiatives (E.g. Marketing Calendars, Events, Promotions, NPDs, Discontinuations)
• Foster strong cross-functional collaboration with commercial, supply chain, and finance teams to integrate business intelligence and market trends into planning and portfolio decisions, including the integration of scenario planning and risk management into the demand planning cycle
  
  

• Direct the preparation, analysis, and implementation of recommendations for Demand Planning data (e.g., master data, aggregation rules, segmentation, demand drivers, normalization).
• Ensure appropriate master data management of Demand and Portfolio data within Demand/Portfolio planning tools (e.g. Active SKU validation, Delist actions, NPD/NPI Introduction).
  
  

• Partake in Portfolio strategies to optimize product mix, drive profitability, and align with market opportunities.
• Facilitate product introductions (NPD/NPI), rationalizations and lifecycle management by engaging in monthly Portfolio Reviews
• Collaborate with Zone Portfolio, Marketing, Revenue, Sales, and Innovations to identify and prioritize new product opportunities, manage discontinuations, and ensure portfolio alignment with business objectives.
  
  

• Lead the implementation, enhancement, and utilization of zone reporting tools and dashboards.
• Prepare and deliver regular reports and executive presentations on key performance metrics (e.g., Forecast Accuracy, Bias, SCOH, Touchless Demand Planning, etc.) and strategic recommendations to senior leadership.
  
  

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance forecast accuracy, portfolio performance, and value chain efficiency.
• Mentor and develop team members, fostering a culture of analytical excellence, innovation, and best practice adoption in demand and portfolio management.
  
  

• Effective numeracy, analytical skills & problem solving at both operational and tactical levels
• Ability to manage complexity and ambiguity
• Good communicator across all levels within and external to the organisation
• Strong negotiation skills and ability to build rapport and influence across all levels in the organisation
• Excellent self management practices with a pro active, energetic and committed approach
• Excellent presentation and report drafting skills
• Excellent analytical understanding and strong excel capabilities advantageous
• Ability to manage multiple streams of information optimally with attention to detail
• An orientation towards the quantitative disciplines of mathematics, statistics and economics would be advantageous
• Basic business financial understanding would be advantageous
  
  

• Candidate should have a 3-year Bachelor level degree in Sciences or Commercial or similar degree or equivalent tertiary education
• Ideal candidate should have between 3-5 years experience in the Demand Planning, sales/marketing, planning or supply chain disciplines in an FMCG environment
  
  

• Band: VI
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Management and Manufacturing
• Industries Food and Beverage Services

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Role Overview:
The Workforce Planning Specialist is responsible for analyzing workforce trends and designing strategies that align human capital needs with organizational goals. This strategic role ensures the right people are in the right roles at the right time.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain workforce models and analytics dashboards.

• Conduct supply-demand forecasting and scenario planning.

• Partner with HR and leadership to plan future workforce needs.

• Create staffing plans and talent pipelines.

• Monitor workforce KPIs and recommend adjustments as needed.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in HR, Business Analytics, Industrial Engineering, or equivalent.

• 5+ years’ experience in workforce planning, data analytics, or HR strategy.

• Strong quantitative, modeling, and Excel/data visualization skills.

• Familiarity with workforce planning tools and HR analytics platforms.

Preferred:

• Experience in large-scale organizations or governmental planning.

The incumbent will be responsible and accountable for the facilitation, guiding, directing, consolidation, monitoring and status reporting of SANBS Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) processes, initiatives, actions and implementation plans.

Key Performance Areas

KPA 1: Direct and facilitate, guide & drive SWP in SANBS

1. Provide specialists input by facilitating and directing, and driving all SWP processes and activities to ensure consistent application with optimal return for the business.
2. Manage the SWP process from start to finish and accept final responsibility of the organization-wide workforce plan.
3. Develop and implement the SWP policy, governance and frameworks.
4. Coordinate and schedule all SWP processes and activities ensuring alignment with the annual business cycle, leadership and reporting protocols.
5. Ensure all divisional SWP plans are timely submitted and comply with the SWP procedures and specifications.
6. Support divisions with SWP implementation and actions and proactively advise to ensure optimal return on investment.

KPA 2: Relationship Management

1. Strategic partner to the Executives, Senior Managers & Managers within SANBS to support SWP.
2. SWP stakeholder relationships management across the Departments and Divisions.
3. Support and enable a common SWP understanding in SANBS.
4. Ensure integration of all the functions in the SWP process and synergies and opportunities are fully exploited.
5. Close working relationship with Learning & Development to ensure the training matrix is active and supports all the SWP processes and actions.

KPA 3: Management of the SWP Annual Scenario Planning processes

1. Facilitate, direct and coordinate the annual SWP scenario planning process per department ensuring consistent application across SANBS.
2. Custodian of SWP templates and tools, ensuring templates and tools are reviewed when required to support efficiencies and effectiveness.
3. Ensure efficient scheduling and communication to support timely delivery.
4. Consolidate all divisional scenario plans in the SANBS plan, clearly articulating time, deliverables, actions and accountability.

KPA 4: Monitoring of SWP action plans, implementation

1. Proactively monitor the implementation and progress on all SWP action plans and identify potential opportunities to improve when required.
2. Interpret, provide input and revise (if necessary) divisional action plans, if no longer serving the organization.

KPA 5: Reporting

1. Consolidated SWP Reporting: Quarterly & Annually, ensuring accuracy and timely reporting.
2. Develop and submit reports detailing the link to business performance and quantify impact.
3. Develop reports associated with the 5-year strategic plan time horizon of the organization.

KPA 6: Up-to-date, accurate data and information management for SWP

1. Implement and ensure all information utilized on the SWP system and/or database/s is up-to-date and accurate.
2. Quality assurance checks and audits of information on a regular basis to ensure accuracy, relevancy and up-to-date information.
3. Ensure a procedure to maintain all information sources utilized effectively.
4. Develop appropriate and efficient systems to ensure accurate data management.
5. Interpret the SANBS workforce data and provide recommendations to senior leadership.

KPA 7: SWP Stakeholder Management

1. Support a consistent and common understanding of SWP across SANBS by developing communications for utilization by the Executives and Managers.
2. Draft SWP messaging and communication to support SWP implementation.
3. Drive change management to ensure strategic alignment with all relevant stakeholders in the process.

KPA 8: Risk Management

1. Identify potential early warning SWP risks and propose mitigating actions for approval and implementation.
2. Assist and support internal and external auditors by submitting correct data and reports.
3. Ensure organization-wide adherence to SWP policy and procedures.
4. Integrate SWP risks into the broader organizational strategic risk register.

KPA 9: Continuous Improvement and quality management

1. Identify opportunities to improve SWP and business processes at appropriate intervals.
2. Proactively identify opportunities and potential synergies across the business with skills planning and integration to talent mapping processes.
3. Incorporate SWP opportunities into the SANBS quality management system.
4. Track and monitor process improvements actions.

KPA 10: SWP Governance

1. Ensure SWP policies and procedures are up-to-date and support the business needs and requirements whilst adhering to labour laws and legislation.
2. Ensure SWP templates are reviewed timeously to support efficiencies and effectiveness of SWP operations.
3. Ensure a common understanding of SWP processes and procedures across SANBS.

Cognitive Skills

• Analytical thinking and attention to detail.
• Management Control.
• Project Management.
• Change Management.
• Holistic / Big Picture.
• Judgment and Decision making.
• Problem solving.
• Planning, Organizing and Monitoring.
• Knowledge of ER theory, concepts and best practice.

Personal Skills

• Ethical behaviour.
• Excellence Orientation.
• Resilience and stress management.
• Self-Management.
• Customer Service Orientation.
• Confidentiality.
• Resourceful.

Interpersonal Skills

• Communication.
• Conflict Management.
• Knowledge Sharing.
• Organizational Awareness.
• Relationship Building.
• Teamwork.

Professional Technical Skills

• Systems Competence.
• Business and Financial Acumen.
• Best Practice Thinking.
• SWP Practice.
• Business process understanding.
• Presentation and Business writing skills.

Leadership Skills

• Practical Execution Management.

Education

• Degree in Business, Strategic Management, Human Resources, Industrial Psychology or equivalent.
• Honors degree will be an advantage.

Experience and Knowledge Requirements

• 5 to 8 years relevant experience.
• Proven track record in the application of analytics in decision-making.
• Advanced Excel and data management skills.
• Understanding of the strategic management principles and processes.
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of strategic human resource management.
• Excellent understanding of operational business activities and relationship to manpower planning.
• Excellent understanding of skills development.
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of strategic workforce planning.
• The ability to translate business needs and requirements into practical people solutions.
• Knowledge of Labour Legislation.
• Advanced knowledge of information technology systems (SAP preferred).
• Up-to-date knowledge and understanding of new developments and strategies in Human Resources, transformation, high-performance cultures and change environments.
• Exposure and experience in/to a unionized environment.
• The ability to inspire, influence and create a positive work environment and atmosphere.
• The ability to understand, respect and work with all levels, different management styles, different personalities, work approaches, and cultures.

The incumbent will be responsible and accountable for the facilitation, guiding, directing, consolidation, monitoring and status reporting of SANBS Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) processes, initiatives, actions and implementation plans.

Key Performance Areas

KPA 1: Direct and facilitate, guide & drive SWP in SANBS

1. Provide specialists input by facilitating and directing, and driving all SWP processes and activities to ensure consistent application with optimal return for the business.
2. Manage the SWP process from start to finish and accept final responsibility of the organization-wide workforce plan.
3. Develop and implement the SWP policy, governance and frameworks.
4. Coordinate and schedule all SWP processes and activities ensuring alignment with the annual business cycle, leadership and reporting protocols.
5. Ensure all divisional SWP plans are timely submitted and comply with the SWP procedures and specifications.
6. Support divisions with SWP implementation and actions and proactively advise to ensure optimal return on investment.

KPA 2: Relationship Management

1. Strategic partner to the Executives, Senior Managers & Managers within SANBS to support SWP.
2. SWP stakeholder relationships management across the Departments and Divisions.
3. Support and enable a common SWP understanding in SANBS.
4. Ensure integration of all the functions in the SWP process and synergies and opportunities are fully exploited.
5. Close working relationship with Learning & Development to ensure the training matrix is active and supports all the SWP processes and actions.

KPA 3: Management of the SWP Annual Scenario Planning processes

1. Facilitate, direct and coordinate the annual SWP scenario planning process per department ensuring consistent application across SANBS.
2. Custodian of SWP templates and tools, ensuring templates and tools are reviewed when required to support efficiencies and effectiveness.
3. Ensure efficient scheduling and communication to support timely delivery.
4. Consolidate all divisional scenario plans in the SANBS plan, clearly articulating time, deliverables, actions and accountability.

KPA 4: Monitoring of SWP action plans, implementation

1. Proactively monitor the implementation and progress on all SWP action plans and identify potential opportunities to improve when required.
2. Interpret, provide input and revise (if necessary) divisional action plans, if no longer serving the organization.

KPA 5: Reporting

1. Consolidated SWP Reporting: Quarterly & Annually, ensuring accuracy and timely reporting.
2. Develop and submit reports detailing the link to business performance and quantify impact.
3. Develop reports associated with the 5-year strategic plan time horizon of the organization.

KPA 6: Up-to-date, accurate data and information management for SWP

1. Implement and ensure all information utilized on the SWP system and/or database/s is up-to-date and accurate.
2. Quality assurance checks and audits of information on a regular basis to ensure accuracy, relevancy and up-to-date information.
3. Ensure a procedure to maintain all information sources utilized effectively.
4. Develop appropriate and efficient systems to ensure accurate data management.
5. Interpret the SANBS workforce data and provide recommendations to senior leadership.

KPA 7: SWP Stakeholder Management

1. Support a consistent and common understanding of SWP across SANBS by developing communications for utilization by the Executives and Managers.
2. Draft SWP messaging and communication to support SWP implementation.
3. Drive change management to ensure strategic alignment with all relevant stakeholders in the process.

KPA 8: Risk Management

1. Identify potential early warning SWP risks and propose mitigating actions for approval and implementation.
2. Assist and support internal and external auditors by submitting correct data and reports.
3. Ensure organization-wide adherence to SWP policy and procedures.
4. Integrate SWP risks into the broader organizational strategic risk register.

KPA 9: Continuous Improvement and quality management

1. Identify opportunities to improve SWP and business processes at appropriate intervals.
2. Proactively identify opportunities and potential synergies across the business with skills planning and integration to talent mapping processes.
3. Incorporate SWP opportunities into the SANBS quality management system.
4. Track and monitor process improvements actions.

KPA 10: SWP Governance

1. Ensure SWP policies and procedures are up-to-date and support the business needs and requirements whilst adhering to labour laws and legislation.
2. Ensure SWP templates are reviewed timeously to support efficiencies and effectiveness of SWP operations.
3. Ensure a common understanding of SWP processes and procedures across SANBS.

Cognitive Skills

• Analytical thinking and attention to detail.
• Management Control.
• Project Management.
• Change Management.
• Holistic / Big Picture.
• Judgment and Decision making.
• Problem solving.
• Planning, Organizing and Monitoring.
• Knowledge of ER theory, concepts and best practice.

Personal Skills

• Ethical behaviour.
• Excellence Orientation.
• Resilience and stress management.
• Self-Management.
• Customer Service Orientation.
• Confidentiality.
• Resourceful.

Interpersonal Skills

• Communication.
• Conflict Management.
• Knowledge Sharing.
• Organizational Awareness.
• Relationship Building.
• Teamwork.

Professional Technical Skills

• Systems Competence.
• Business and Financial Acumen.
• Best Practice Thinking.
• SWP Practice.
• Business process understanding.
• Presentation and Business writing skills.

Leadership Skills

• Practical Execution Management.

Education

• Degree in Business, Strategic Management, Human Resources, Industrial Psychology or equivalent.
• Honors degree will be an advantage.

Experience and Knowledge Requirements

• 5 to 8 years relevant experience.
• Proven track record in the application of analytics in decision-making.
• Advanced Excel and data management skills.
• Understanding of the strategic management principles and processes.
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of strategic human resource management.
• Excellent understanding of operational business activities and relationship to manpower planning.
• Excellent understanding of skills development.
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of strategic workforce planning.
• The ability to translate business needs and requirements into practical people solutions.
• Knowledge of Labour Legislation.
• Advanced knowledge of information technology systems (SAP preferred).
• Up-to-date knowledge and understanding of new developments and strategies in Human Resources, transformation, high-performance cultures and change environments.
• Exposure and experience in/to a unionized environment.
• The ability to inspire, influence and create a positive work environment and atmosphere.
• The ability to understand, respect and work with all levels, different management styles, different personalities, work approaches, and cultures.

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Additional Career Level Description:

Knowledge and application:

• Uses extensive knowledge across functional areas to direct the application of existing policies and principles and guide the development of new policies and ideas across the function.
• Leads, integrates and directs work applying substantial practical expertise across function disciplines.
  
  

• Solutions are devised based on limited information and issues that are occasionally complex and fundamental principles and data may be in conflict.
• New concepts and solutions consider multiple perspectives and future implications.
  
  

• Interacts with senior management, executives, and/or major customers which frequently involves negotiating matters of significance to the organization.
• Reconciles multiple stakeholder views to drive business results.
  
  

• Works with senior management to establish strategic plans and translates business segment strategy into functional plans and guides execution.
• Erroneous decisions will have a critical long term (typically up to five years) impact on the overall success of function or multi departments.
  
  

• Accountable for results which impact function or multiple departments including budgets.
• Direct management of a team of professional managers and experienced individual contributors.
  
  

• Seniority level Director

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Business Development and Sales
• Industries IT Services and IT Consulting

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Director, Master Planning, Project Management Office page is loadedDirector, Master Planning, Project Management Office Apply remote type Hybrid Working locations Johannesburg, South Africa time type Full time posted on Posted 30+ Days Ago job requisition id R-129877

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Join a company that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We are renowned for our technical excellence and leading innovations, and for making a difference to our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion – it’s a place where you can grow, belong and thrive.

Additional Career Level Description:

Knowledge and application:

• Uses extensive knowledge across functional areas to direct the application of existing policies and principles and guide the development of new policies and ideas across the function.
• Leads, integrates and directs work applying substantial practical expertise across function disciplines.

Problem solving:

• Solutions are devised based on limited information and issues that are occasionally complex and fundamental principles and data may be in conflict.
• New concepts and solutions consider multiple perspectives and future implications.

Interaction:

• Interacts with senior management, executives, and/or major customers which frequently involves negotiating matters of significance to the organization.
• Reconciles multiple stakeholder views to drive business results.

Impact:

• Works with senior management to establish strategic plans and translates business segment strategy into functional plans and guides execution.
• Erroneous decisions will have a critical long term (typically up to five years) impact on the overall success of function or multi departments.

Accountability:

• Accountable for results which impact function or multiple departments including budgets.
• Direct management of a team of professional managers and experienced individual contributors.

Workplace type :

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HART Technologies, Inc. Program Analyst/Engineering Project Scheduler (RR901)
King George, VA 22485

HART Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Scheduling Program Analyst, to support program planning and scheduling for the Battle Management System (BMS) portfolio at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, VA (NSWCDD). Successful candidates will provide expertise in Microsoft Project scheduling and will assist project leads and technical SMEs in the development, implementation, and maintenance of an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS). Candidates who are highly motivated, process-oriented, and attentive to detail are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities:

• Document, Develop, Maintain, and analyze multiple project sub-schedules and IMSs, utilizing Microsoft Project.
• Function as a facilitator at all levels throughout the schedule development process and communicate effectively with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Work closely with project leadership and key stakeholders and multi-disciplinary engineering teams to understand program milestones, plans and resourcing.
• Maintain scheduled Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Organizational Breakdown Structures (OBS), Schedule Plans and Baselines.
• Support schedule presentation and documentation for key stakeholders and leadership at all levels of development.

Required:

• Experience with scheduling projects using an industry accepted project scheduling tool. (e.g. Microsoft Project, Primavera P6).
• Proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
• US Citizenship and the ability to obtain a DoD Security Clearance.
• Active DOD Security Clearance.

Preferred:

• 2+ years of experience in IMS / Project schedule development, analysis, integration, and monitoring.
• Experience with OnePager Pro.
• Experience with DoD engineering programs is highly desired.
• Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMI-PMP) or Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) or other scheduling certification is desired but not required.

Competitive annual salary plus paid time off, matching 401K, along with Medical, Dental and LT/ST Disability insurance for full-time employment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or veteran status.

Location: King George, VA

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