Senior Business Analyst
Adcock Ingram
Total years of experience :15 years, 6 months
Senior Analyst supporting 3 factories and Headquarters locally.
Provide support in the form of consultancy on the following project: Revenue Recovery Project together with City Power and related 3rd party suppliers. Essentially managing the relationship between various suppliers and City Power, while at the same time ensuring key deliverables are met on time and accurately.
Provide support and leadership within the following areas of the business including production planning, logistics, customer service, warehousing, purchasing and procurement.
Responsibilities:
• Manage the Manufacturing Services Department within JTI operating standards with the objective of planning, purchasing, transporting, and customs clearing of all tobacco and non-tobacco materials required for the production of cigarettes
• Manage efficient production planning and utilization of production capacities. Continuous monitoring of capacity demands and possibilities as well as the material coverage of approved production plans. Informs timely about known discrepancies of both capacity balance and material coverage of production
• Controls purchasing of tobaccos, NTMs, spare parts according to Global Procurement policies and guidelines. Participate and prepare the annual and strategic planning initiatives concerning production capacity, material procurement and inventories. Responsible for timely delivery of purchased materials and equipment from suppliers to the factory
• Responsible for Finished Goods, raw materials, tobacco and spare parts inventory levels in line with committed strategic plans
• Manages operating of warehouses with relation to production requirements
Key achievements:
• Successfully implemented safety days stock on raw materials while maintaining optimum stock coverage
• Successfully implemented and reviewed all related raw materials to be fully updated and compliant with company standards
• Successfully overseen implementation of various tenders for suppliers as well as services amounting to $600k plus savings in 2014
• Managed and overseen raw materials in excess of $12MM in value across a 12 month period, while optimizing the month to month total inventory value in excess of $6MM
Fully responsible for the leadership and daily operations of the Quality Department and related functions. Focused on the development and implementation of all internal control systems to ensure the establishment and maintenance of a robust, efficient, and cost effective operating environment.
Responsibilities:
• Playing a leading role in giving advice across the organization as an expert in the product quality field such as: Quality Control parameters communication and follow up of the improvement activities to achieve the quality targets approved during the strategic strategy session. Leads the contact with Research & Development, Lead Factory and Global Quality Control.
• Develop and maintain an efficient and effective Quality Control department, which give support to production team, in order to be in line with quality standards. Equally takes care of the product quality (process control and quality plan with respect of the QC Manual) so that the company meets the Quality KPI’s
• Develop advanced Static Quality Control (SQC) tools to improve factual data analysis and minimizing the variances in products
• Ensures the training of production team to improve the company standards quality understanding
Key achievements:
• Successfully oversaw improvement in all KPI’s to a global competitive level
• Successfully oversaw an improvement of over 60% relating to consumer related product complaints
• Successfully oversaw our pest control (Beetles) KPI improvement to reach the best ever results 2 years consecutively
Fully responsible for the electronic issues of production lines in all aspects of the business. Lead and perform preventive & corrective maintenance in addition to electrical maintenance for factory equipment and devices.
High School Education
Bachelor of Engineering specializing in Electronic and Digital Communication.