Production Scheduling and Stock Manager

The Production Scheduling and Stock Manager is responsible for overseeing and coordinating the production planning process from the propagation stage, ensuring alignment with production movement dates and sales demand. This role manages plant stock efficiently by implementing effective scheduling strategies and ensuring optimal rotation based on key performance metrics. The Production Scheduling and Stock Manager collaborates closely with the Senior Managing Director, Director of Cultivation, and sales team to align production schedules with operational capabilities and customer needs.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES : (This list is not intended to be all inclusive)

• Oversees the production plan from the propagation stage, ensuring flowering production aligns with movement dates.
• Manages plant stock efficiently, ensuring proper rotation and scheduling based on key metrics such as cuttings per square foot per week.
• Implements production schedules aligned with sales demand and operational capabilities.
• Monitors the production schedule, addressing discrepancies by communicating with the Senior Managing Director and Director of Cultivation.
• Coordinates with the sales team to plan plant orders and ensure inventory meets customer demand.
• Updates weekly cuttings list, and transplant plans based on stock availability, sales orders, and propagation space capacity.
• Oversees the transplanting schedule to ensure accurate labeling of cultivars and crop weeks.
• Organizes transplanting and cloning processes, ensuring efficient grouping based on cultivar and growth stage.
• Works closely with management to adjust cultivar production in response to forecasted demand.
• Adjusts cultivar volume to maintain optimal production levels if forecasts shift.
• Maintains crop reports for each cultivar at the propagation stage, tracking essential data such as clone survival rates, transplanting dates, movement dates, greenhouse section assignments, and mother plant lifecycles.
• Ensures mother plant lifecycles do not exceed 90 days.
• Plans new cloning and planting of mother plants to sustain or expand production cultivars.
• Provides weekly task lists to the stock team for refreshing, planting, discarding, moving, and trimming mother plants—aligned with production and sales goals.
• Manages plant inventory to drive nursery sales.
• Delivers excellent customer service to clients and breeders, ensuring seamless order fulfillment.
• Communicates sales order logistics to staff, facilitating an efficient nursery sales program.
• Assists in acquiring new genetics by managing logistics, coordinating with breeders, and facilitating the intake of new immature plants.
• Tracks each variety through the production process, compiling yield and potency data into comprehensive variety reports, including photos and key observations.
• Leads daily staff activities, optimizing business processes and workflow efficiencies.
• Enforces company safety procedures, ensuring compliance by all team members.
• Oversees hiring, performance evaluations, disciplinary actions, and employee development.
• Executes Ad Hoc Projects as assigned by direct supervisor

CORE COMPETENCIES

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS and WORKING CONDITIONS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE PREFEERED :