Job description

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Plan and maintain stocks for all assigned areas.
• Achieve all customer requirements
• Achieve stock targets.
• Generate capacity plans for specific bottleneck assembly operations to identify potential problem areas to obtain a resolution with manufacturing managers
• Run and satisfy daily arrears.
• Each morning ensures the overdue commitment plan is run and the actions/dates of agreed build are provided to the Planning Manager and Sales Administration Manager.
• Attend meetings with customers as required to better understand their needs to ensure all targets are met.
• Attend weekly Plan Conformance Review Meeting with the Planning Team to confirm whether all targets have been met and/or identify any issues if the target were not reached.
• Attend daily Planning meeting alongside the Production Managers, Senior Team Co-ordinators to confirm production plans for the day have been met and/or if not, how the issues can be resolved.
• Run weekly action message reports for the following week, identify and agree suitable plans for that week with the Planning Manager.
• Attend weekly Sign Off meetings with the Productions Managers and Senior Team Co-ordinators to confirm factory manning for the following week.
• Assist in the managing of the department in the absence of the Planning Manager.
• Comply with Health and Safety responsibilities as defined in the Company Health and Safety policy, and ensure these are adequately delegated in the absence of the job holder.

Person Profile:

• Highly Experienced in SAP within production planning, creating production orders, production line planning using customer orders and forecast information
• Numerate and excellent analytical skills
• IT literate with ability to learn new software packages
• Intermediate Excel skills
• Ability to learn and interpret large quantities of numerical information
• Ability to work within a team and autonomously without short interval supervision
• Ability to make fact-based decisions
• Ability to build and manage cross functional relationships with all departments in the business to ensure excellent internal communications.
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to present findings/recommendations to the management team
• Ability to use PowerPoint would be advantageous
• Ability to proactively identify and implement improvements to any business process through change management
• Tenacity in response to conflicting prioritisation requests from different departments

Education and/or Experience

• Experience of working with SAP
• Working in a FMCG environment
• 5 years’ experience in an operational environment
• 5 years’ experience in production Planning/supplier scheduling
• Extensive knowledge of Supply Chain/Manufacturing
• Our Head Office is based in Minworth, Birmingham (UK) and we are looking for a Production Planner to join us on a permanent basis.

What we offer:

• Company bonus
• 25 days holiday
• Free onsite parking
• Health cash plan
• Pension scheme
• Ride to work scheme