Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

The purpose of this role is to provide accurate production & sales plan and shutdown plans, short-term, long-term production forecasts, participates in 1+4 Year Business Plan development, Supporting Insurance/Audit related matters, and Supports preparation of economic scenarios and Market trends.

Key Accountabilities:

• Responsible to sustain high SHE and Quality standards in the Production Planning & Economics Department
• Manage Production Plans and Forecasts on a daily, monthly, and annual basis, or as required
• Annual and 1 + 4 years Production and sales Plan
• Monthly rolling forecast for marketing
• Other Production forecasts
• Responsible for Turnaround & outage plan scheduling of all Major plants in coordination with external and internal parties
• Responsible for analyses of actual operations performance in terms of volume, specific consumption, and capacity utilization against design, business plan, and/or forecast, as applicable
• Interface with external and internal parties on Production plan & forecast: Between Marketers and Operation (Shipment scheduling). Between Finance and Operation (Business Plan and OPM). Between Maaden Affiliates. Plant integration activities including plant-wise energy and P2O5 balances.
• Act for Manager (DOA) when required.
• Ensuring Contractual Obligations are met.
• Act as custodian for Marketers shares entitlement.
• Manage to develop production scenarios to support production for decision making during periods of upsets / deviations.
• Responsible to reply to external queries (from Marketers regarding Production forecast and inventory) and internal queries (Finance, Operation).
• Identifies and develops databases on market trends, prices and related information.
• Reviews weekly special trade related publications to calculate and present product market movement and cost economics to management.
• Support all insurance / audit related activities and audits.
• Evaluate business models for all business opportunities.
• Monitor and highlight product sales price movement.
• Support analysis for interpretation of cost relationships from the study of market trends and in solution of problems arising from operation and distribution of products.
• Identifies and develops databases on market trends, prices and related information.
• Reviews weekly special trade related publications (CRU, ..) to calculate and present product market movement and cost economics to the management.
• Supports preparation of economic scenarios for forecasting for cash planning and product / operation optimization
• Support economical, technical and other analysis with the use of modelling and simulations for but not limited to new products, new investments, projects and MOCs.
• Work in conjunction with PED, CL and Operation to support NPI (New Product Introduction)
• Support monitoring of Company performance management KPIs.
• Participates in operation planning activities through daily production planning, sales planning and feedstock and utilities requirement through implementation, communication and administration of section objectives on both a short & long term basis.
• Participates in improvement in operational performance and profitability through available data & information for predictive analysis
• Review the long-term needs and availability of all the major feedstock and alternative actions.
• Periodically engage with the feedstock suppliers to evaluate the trends.

Desired Candidate Profile

• University Degree in Engineering (preferably Industrial Engineering or similar)
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in a business planning fertilizer manufacturing plant or equivalent
• Background for business economic scenarios and modelling analysis
• Ma aden High Performance Competencies: Results Oriented, Self-motivated, Flexible & Attention to details
• Skills: Interaction on manager / section head level, Management reporting in an integrated chemical complex, Attention to detail, Troubleshooting, Good computer skills in using Microsoft Office Applications (Word, Excel, Power Point, etc.)