Execution scheduler

Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.

This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Execution Scheduler creates, manages and releases production schedules to ensure products are made and delivered to customers on time and in full in a make-to-order environment. Using supply plans, production capacity, and business priorities, this role balances customer demand with operational needs to support reliable order fulfillment.

The role works closely with Operations, Supply Planning, Logistics, Sourcing Execution, Customer Excellence, FSQR to coordinate production activities and resolve execution challenges. As part of the Supply Chain Downstream Execution team, the Production Scheduler is responsible for delivering assigned schedules, maintaining service reliability, and supporting continuous improvement of key performance indicators.

Key Accountabilities

• Create and maintain feasible production schedules based on supply plans, capacity to supply, and material availability within a make-to-order environment.
• Review, reconcile, and adjust production schedules in line with network priorities and changing operational requirements across plants and customers.
• Release production schedules to operational systems and ensure timely visibility of production orders for execution teams.
• Identify and flag scheduling constraints, supporting order prioritization and resolution of execution challenges to protect customer service via the order management processes and systems.
• Maintain accurate master production scheduling, location and material requirements data either directly or through established data management processes in the relevant systems.
• Collaborate closely with Supply Planning, Sourcing & Execution Scheduling, Operations, Transportation & Logistics Scheduling, Customer Excellence, and other key stakeholders to ensure effective schedule execution.
• Provide scheduling insights and execution feedback to Supply Planners to support tactical planning and decision-making for assigned products, customers, or locations.
• Execute routine scheduling activities and lead problem-solving and continuous improvement efforts within the short-term planning and execution horizon (0-5wks) to meet customer requirements.
• Ensure compliance with safety, food safety, quality, and hygiene standards in all scheduling activities and decision-making.
• Provide back-up support for designated supply chain tasks as required.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Experience in ERP Systems.
• Independent language application in French and/or Dutch and English (B-Level).

Preferred Qualifications

• Competent language application in Local language (C Level).
• Experience in either Supply Chain Planning or Operations (MSC).

Our Offer

We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.

Interested? Then make sure to send us your CV and cover letter in English today:  Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cargill

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