MRP Planner SA (18 Months Contract)

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 specialized portfolio enterprise where we serve diverse businesses who support unique customers or markets, including animal nutrition and health, bioindustrial, road safety salt and Cargill joint ventures.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Material Requirements Planner will plan, schedules and handle raw material needed for production. In this role, you will handle moderately complex material movement with purchasing, warehouse and production areas and handle to established raw material inventory target level.

This is an on-site position based in Pietermaritzburg.

Key Accountabilities

• Participate in setting material requirements planning metrics targets.
• Create and publish a material requirements plan based on the published master supply plan.
• Provide necessary input to master planner for assigned product or location.
• Maintain data relevant to material requirements planning activities including sourcing and replenishment, supplier, planning calendar, material and location data.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience.

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:
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Client-provided location(s): Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

Job ID: Cargill_FGB-334057

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-09-24T19:25:26