Supply Chain Planner

​The Rewards and Benefits on Offer;

• Competitive starting salary

• Permanent job opportunity

• Great work/life balance

• You will be working for a prestigious Manufacturing company

• Supportive & friendly working environment

• Immediate start date available

The Company you will be working for;

MTrec Commercial are proudly representing our prestigious client on their search for an experiences Supply Chain Planner to join their team on a full-time permanent basis. If you feel you have the required skills and experience, then please apply for an immediate response!

The Role you will be doing;

• Production planning support to manufacturing/operations teams

• Master Production Schedule management/maintenance

• Develop production schedules/scheduling systems, working with operations/manufacturing

• To plan all incoming orders, acknowledging production deliveries to Sales and Customers, ensuring Customers delivery requirements are achieved and OTD is maximised.

• To ensure weekly production plans are achievable and issued on time

• Ensuring sufficient inventory of materials and services to meet customer and business needs

• Analyse demand forecasts and MRP reports for intercompany and marketing, ensuring continuous material availability

• Manage and expedite orders with suppliers to meet demand

• Coordinate with Sales/Marketing, Purchasing and Planning on new products to ensure that the BOMs and BOOs are defined and entered in a timely manner to ensure a swift and seamless introduction to market

• Support and ensure stock accuracy and transactional precision within operations and business systems data. Assist investigating raw material variances and actions to correct data.

• Act as focal point for the materials replenishment process on site, ensuring we balance inventory requirements with space constraints.

• Support / manage inventory counts – Cyclical and Full stocktakes.

• Develop/maintain measures of performance against key performance indicators

• Champion supply chain improvement activity & promote materials management best practice (focusing on implementing lean manufacturing principles)

• Support new product introduction projects Analyse existing processes and KPIs, supporting improvements and implement actions

• Work with Managers/Supervisors to maintain and report manufacturing performance statistics which should include efficiencies, output and on-time delivery.

• To progress any production problems through daily production meeting

• Coordinate with Sales/Marketing, Purchasing and Planning to ensure that samples to support new product introduction and new range introduction are defined and support with process to successfully deliver to the customer

• Work with Production, Purchasing and Planning to ensure that the BOM has the correct structure as well as accurate components and quantities with the appropriate units of measures assigned for precise transaction and stock control

• To carry out planning related tasks as required by Supply Chain Manager

• Promoting the desired business culture, business ethics and business initiatives

• Adhere to company rules and regulations

• Other duties as assigned by your manager.

About You;

• Good track record in production and/or materials planning with understanding of manufacturing planning systems

• Experience in a manufacturing discipline

• Experience of working with MRP/ERP systems

• Logical and methodical approach to planning challenges.

• Demonstrated proficiency with MS Office Suite, specifically Excel. It would be advantageous to be able to create charts, macro's, pivot tables and formula's

• Strong understanding of integrated processes, including but not limited to manufacturing, and supply chain.

• Strong analytical skills, highly data literate

• Strong focus on internal/external customer satisfaction

• Good influential skills, ability to communicate at all levels & work well under pressure

• Motivated, proactive self-starter, a team player