Senior Planner

Summary

This Senior Planner vacancy is an excellent opportunity for a planner looking to take the next step into an influential planning position.

Job Description

This business is part of a multi-sited, multi-product food giant with sites all across the UK. They are innovation led and quality driven and are seen as market leaders in a number of areas. This specific site has a well-respected product range supplying the premium retailers.

The main focus of this role is to ensure that the daily planning process is completed as effectively as possible. It shall also challenge existing planning methods and drive continuous improvement initiatives while identifying opportunities and threats that could potentially affect the business in a time frame of up to 28 days.

Specific duties are:

• Determine inventory levels and replenishment rules to minimise out of life disposals from raw material through to finished goods. This is to be achieved by balancing the most efficient production cycles with the optimum daily volumes.
• Ensure that 100% customer service level is maintained at minimal cost both to our internal and external customers
• To ensure audits take place for all systems to ensure data integrity is present for all products and resources
• To produce the weekly plan incorporating promotional activity, delists, launches and supplying volume requirements for production and procurement

These positions require someone who has previously worked in a planning function and is able to quickly handle and analyse data. You should have strong communication skills with a strong decision making capability. The ideal candidate will also have people supervisory/management experience.

This business is looking to interview shortly so please apply now if it is of interest.

Ref DAC8578