Senior Supply Planner - Pontypool, United Kingdom - Finsbury Food Group

Finsbury Food Group

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Pontypool, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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We have a brand-new opportunity for an experienced Senior Supply Planner to join a senior position in our Supply Chain Team.

Finsbury Food Group is a leading speciality bakery manufacturer. We constantly raise quality and efficiency standards, and build long-term relationships with major multiple retailers and the foodservice channel. The bread for your morning toast, ready for butter-spreading or egg-dipping. The candle-filled centrepiece for a memorable celebration. The buns, muffins and other treats that turn teatime into quality time.

We make 75% of the UK's sharing cakes from retailer own brands cakes, tray bakes through to party cakes like Caterpillar cakes This is what we do, and why we're in business.

Baking brilliance makes every day special.

Reporting to the Supply Planning Manager for the Southern Cluster, the Senior Supply Planner will be responsible for developing and executing supply plans that meet customer demand while optimising inventory levels and minimising supply chain risks, effectively running the day-to-day activities of the Supply Planning Team.

This role sits as part of the 3rd pillar of the Supply Chain Group Structure of which covers the Customer Demand and Forecasting, Logistics/Distribution and Warehousing, Supply Planning and under pinned by a Sustainability Pillar.

This role is primarily site-based, with flexibility for home working as and when required.

This is a great opportunity for someone to gain experience with one of the UK's largest bakery businesses.

They'll work closely with a friendly and engaging team from both a site and group perspective, offering opportunities for growth and long-term career development.

This is what you'll actually do

You will manage the short term and long term capacity along with any risk that may impact service delivery and identify and mitigate potential risks related to supply chain disruptions.

The Senior Supply Planner will cover Daily / Weekly production schedules based on demand v inventory during any period of absence or holidays.

You will refine systems and methods to continually improve planning so that the most efficient plans are issued to the factory.

You will manage Finished Goods master data for Supply Chain from set up to delist ensuring the site always maintains data integrity and accuracy.

As Senior Supply Planner you will pro-Actively work alongside Demand and Forecasting team to ensure alignment with demand and upcoming promotional and delist activities and interface with Operations in order to maintain or improve manufacturing efficiency.

You will have responsibility for stock build campaigns, defining the plan and tracking execution for site. As Senior Supply Planner you will participate in daily site meetings and provide updates on supply planning activities.

You will work closely with Supply Planning Manager to provide relevant reports to drive monthly S&OP and Supply Review activities and to support day-to-day supply planning activities.

You will deputise for the Supply Planning Manager during periods of absence / holidays.

You will drive and implement personnel development programmes for direct reports and lead and motivate Site based Supply Planning team to achieve objectives.

Ideally this is you

Good knowledge of a supply chain ideally in a FMCG environment
Experience of production planning
Key User in M
IT skills e.g., Excel, MRP systems, Optimity
Attention to detail, commitment to high standards.
Be selfmotivated with the ability to work to tight deadlines in a fastmoving environment.
Planning and organising able to forward plan.
Works well as a team.
Works well on own initiatives.
Communicates well with internal and external departments.
Works well under pressure.
Time management
Manages priorities.
Challenge when needed and takes on board others' views.
Adapting and responding to change
Be an effective communicator.
Strong interpersonal skills; excellent verbal and written communication skills

Our vision is to be the leading speciality bakery group in the UK, and we want the best people in place to achieve this.

Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals.

We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength. If this sounds like you, please get in contact to learn more