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Job Title: Scheduler
Location: Lagos
Status: Contract
Contract Type – Indefinite Contract
Pay Band: BRC-4-F
Role Purpose
- The purpose of this role is to support planning and tracking exams capacity requirements against demand from 18 months out on a 12-month rolling basis down to handover to Operations Managers for Resource Management and Test Day delivery.
- The role will translate demand into capacity/resource requirements for venues, people, and test materials to fully optimise operations and margins while maintaining service levels, maximising agility, and ensuring contingency.
- It will also monitor and review changes to plan reporting on requirements to fill capacity, effectiveness of Planning and cost to serve.
- This role will work across functions in country to ensure counterparts understand requirements and execute to plan on Test Day.
Main Accountabilities
Nnot limited to the following:
- Executes capacity management plans.
- Supports Operations Planning Manager to collaborate with Commercial function for demand planning purposes
- Monitors rolling 18-month plan and makes appropriate changes to plans.
- Keeps Operations teams up to date on any changes.
- Provides support on Distribution and Schools exams with regards to registration requirements and post-test sales invoices
- Provides support to Operations Planning Manager on planning future changes to delivery profiles
- Contingency planning and risk management of supply.
- Adheres to set standards and performance manage Exam security and compliance
- Manages daily/weekly planning/capacity meetings
- Support creating regular reports on range of standard, corporate financial processes and procedures to enable effective budget and resource management for the team, unit or project(s) – e.g. purchase order system, FABS, SAP, procurement processes.
- Plans and prioritises own work activities, which span across a range of different work streams, responding to changing and at times competing requirements to ensure effective delivery of responsibilities over a weekly/monthly time horizon.
Role specific knowledge and experience:
- Experience of translating demand requirements to ensure capacity can be met to deliver operationally within a large business
- Experience in third party/Vendor relationship management
- Relevant experience of identifying suppliers in a business environment.
Desirable:
- Experience of working across a dispersed team within a single country.
- Experience in allocation and scheduling duties for a large team
- University degree in any subject or relevant qualification.
Salary
NGN7,363,086.00 per annum plus benefits.
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Deadline: March 26, 2023