Join Link Snack's and Feed Your Wild Side!
As the global leader in branded protein snacking, Link Snack's is passionate about creating great-tasting, high-quality products that consumers love. With a growing presence across Asia Pacific, we continue to expand our reach and bring our iconic brands to more consumers across the region.
We embrace the wild side of business - moving fast, thinking big, and challenging the status quo. If you are looking to make an impact in a collaborative, high-growth environment, Link Snack's offers the opportunity to build your career while helping shape the future of protein snacking across APAC.
About the Role:
We are looking for a proactive and detail-driven Production Planner to join our Supply Chain team in Casino, New South Wales In this role, you will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and optimising production plans that balance customer demand, capacity, inventory, service levels, and cost in a fast-paced FMCG manufacturing environment.
Reporting to the Head of Supply Chain APAC and leading one direct report, you will play a key role in driving planning excellence, ensuring effective execution of production schedules, and supporting the ongoing development of planning capability within the team.
Working cross-functionally across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Operations, this role plays a critical part in ensuring uninterrupted supply, efficient use of resources, and minimal waste. You will translate demand signals into executable production schedules, proactively manage risk, and support continuous improvement across planning and execution.
What You’ll Do:
1. Production Planning & Scheduling: Develop and manage short- and medium-term production plans and daily/weekly schedules, optimising sequencing to minimise downtime, changeovers, and waste while responding to real-time disruptions.
2. Demand, Supply & Inventory Coordination: Align production with demand forecasts, customer orders, and inventory targets by monitoring raw materials, WIP, and finished goods, while managing shelf-life and avoiding excess or obsolete stock.
3. Stakeholder Collaboration & S&OP: Partner cross-functionally with Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, Procurement, Logistics, Sales, and Customer Service, contributing planning inputs to S&OP and providing clear production updates.
4. Performance Monitoring & Continuous Improvement: Track schedule adherence and key KPIs (DIFOT, production attainment, utilisation, inventory, waste), investigate variances, and drive improvements in planning accuracy and execution.
5. Systems & Planning Transformation: Support the transition from Excel-based planning to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central by designing, testing, and embedding automated planning, MRP, and scheduling processes.
What You’ll Bring to the Table:
Tertiary qualification in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, or a related discipline (preferred)
2–5+ years’ experience in production planning and/or scheduling within manufacturing or FMCG
Experience across both spreadsheet-based planning and ERP-driven environments
Practical experience using ERP/MRP systems (e.g. SAP, Oracle, Dynamics, Pronto, or similar)
High proficiency in Excel and reporting tools
Strong analytical, planning, and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail
Ability to manage competing priorities in a dynamic production environment
Clear and confident communicator across shopfloor and office-based teams
Organised, disciplined, and able to re-plan quickly under pressure
Who you Are:
Detail-oriented with a disciplined and structured planning approach
A strong collaborator who works effectively across supply chain and manufacturing teams
Calm under pressure and adaptable to changing priorities
Confident working autonomously while contributing to team outcomes
Committed to continuous improvement and operational excellence
Applications are open to candidates with eligibility to work in Australia
What’s Next?
Ready to make your mark? Click " I'M INTERESTED" to submit your cover letter and CV. We can’t wait to hear from you!
Additional Information:
Applications are open to candidates with eligibility to work in Australia
Pre-employment checks may be required for successful candidates.
What’s Next?
Click "APPLY NOW" to submit your cover letter and CV. We can’t wait to hear from you!
When it comes to being wild, we know a thing or two. We're not afraid of trying something new or the hard work it takes to make it happen. It's in our DNA. We've turned a family recipe into a new snacking category. And the wilderness into the world's largest meat snack business, that's still proudly family owned and operated.
We're a company built by innovators, and are driven to not only satisfy your hunger, but to also feed your journey – whether that journey is on the road, on the run, at the campground, at the playground, in the office or in the moment. It’s a journey we share with you. It’s the journey forward of our people, of our communities, of our category…with a reverence for quality and an irreverence for the status quo.
At Jack Link's Protein Snacks, we see every moment of every day as an opportunity to move forward, to forge new ground. To realize our vision of becoming the World’s #1 Protein Snacking Company. We never give up. You never give up. Together, we keep going. Are you wild enough to join us?
Jack Link's Protein Snacks is a global leader in snacking and the No. 1 meat snack manufacturer worldwide. Family-owned and operated with headquarters in Minong, Wisconsin, Jack Link’s Protein Snacks also has a large corporate hub in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company is made up of passionate team members, across 11 countries, who share an uncompromising commitment to delivering awesome products and feeding the journey of those who move things forward. The Jack Link’s Protein Snacks portfolio of brands includes, Jack Link’s, Lorissa’s Kitchen, MATADOR Jerky, Golden Island, BiFi and Peperami.
