Job Title: Production and Scheduling Coordinator
Date Posted: 10/07/2026
Job Type: Full Time
Employer: Bayer East Africa
Industry: Production
Salary: Open
Location: Nairobi
Country: Kenya
Deadline: 24/07/2026
Looking for a production job in Kenya?
Bayer East Africa is hiring a Production and Scheduling Coordinator skilled in production planning, manufacturing operations, inventory control, and workflow scheduling.
Job Summary:
- The role will Plan and Schedule production related activities for
both field and processing activities for the three sites in East Africa-
Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania.
- Further the role will ensure end-to-end crop plan execution for the
region.
- This includes crop planting plans, quality testing planning and
scheduling, harvest planning and scheduling, delivery planning and
scheduling, processing planning and schedule management.
Responsibilities
- Plan and schedule production related activities across three sites
in East Africa with key objective of creating transparency in the
execution
of the crop plans for the locations. - In liaison with country production leads ensures accurate crop yield
forecasting to achieve 95% crop plan adherence.
- In liaison with the Field Mission teams, develops crop delivery
plans and ensures attainment of at least 95% harvest adherence.
- Coordinate on time Field sampling for SNP testing to achieve defined
Turn-Around-Time and results on hand before harvesting commences.
- In liaison with the in-season planning mission team, the role
coordinates the processing plan and ensures Processing Plan Adherence of
atleast 95%.
- In liaison with the East Africa procurement lead, ensures all
production consumables in line with the crop forecast are on hand prior to
the
production campaign. - Coordinate KPI reporting for Tier 3 meetings and in S&OP and
S&OE.
- Work with the Production Warehouse team to ensure seed is moved to
finished goods warehouses.
- In liaison with Site Production Coordinators ensures Inventory
visibility in SAP.
- Ensures weekly reporting of production status. The report will go
out every Monday to all identified stakeholders.
- Maintain planning and scheduling records as required by the QMS
management systems.
- Ensure compliance with quality assurance standards and management
system set by ISO9001:2015.
- Provide information and insights on planning activities.
- Participate in 5WHY problem solving identifying corrective and
preventative actions.
- Actively participate in implementation of the site safety program,
lead ESH efforts, and aid and arrange for resources to promote site safety
in line with ISO45001 standards. - Adhere to all applicable legislation, Bayer safety policies and
procedures
Key Working Relationships:
- Operate in Resource Mission Squad
- Squad Connections:
- End-to-End Mission Team
- Production Squad
- Trade and Compliance Squad
- HSE Squad
- Field Mission Team
- One Management System Squad (ISO)
- Planning Mission
Qualifications and Experience:
- A bachelor’s degree in business, Agriculture., Engineering, or
related fields.
- At least 10 years’ experience in seed manufacturing operations and
management or planning.
- MS Office software (Excel, E-mail, Word, Project etc.)
- Interpersonal and communication skills
- Results focused with ability to work on own initiative
- Strong teamwork (flexibility to work across the areas and positively
influencing others)
- Establish clear direction and making decisions on a timely manner
- Fluent in English
- ISO training-desirable
How to Apply
