Planning Team Lead - Loughborough, United Kingdom - Forfarmers

Forfarmers

Verified Company

Loughborough, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

To work with all areas of the business to provide an exceptional level of customer service and the continuous flow of product from our external customer sites / suppliers to end customer by effective management and communication with haulier's as well as internal logistic and sales teams.

What is your role?

Coordinating production plans given from our customer for one or multiple products
Planning and prioritising customer / supplier requirements.
Call off straights contracts as required by Trading Team.
Determining vehicle resource required, sourcing hauliers and rates and issuing work to hauliers.
Liaising with dedicated 3rd party logistic providers to schedule in collections to ensure no production disruption.
Ensure we have sufficient raw materials, production and finished product required to cover customer demand in a timely manner.
Ensuring customer demand/requirements are planned withing delivery band widths and if not notify Sales Coordination Team in a timely manner so customer relationships are managed effectively.
Be the central point of communication/escalation for your customer production site.
Updating the trading board with required volume to be sold in line with sites production forecast.
Monitor any changes in customer requirements made to the pre trading board by sales coordination team.
Ensure any changes are relayed back to the relevant haulier / customer production site.
Keying in new sales / purchase orders passed from the trading team.
Ensure monthly purchase base prices / spot purchase prices / haulage rates are entered and maintained.
Effective planning of raw material intake in line with sales volume expectation.
Confirming current / forward orders with suppliers.
Excellent twoway communication with the Sales Coordination Team and support to the Sales Coordination Team as required
Lead, motivate team and set example.
Develop other team members
Work with Management to ensure clear training/cover plans in place Improve relationships internal and external
Improve and streamline process
Engage and lead collaboration with other teams within DML Organisation
Selfmotivated and work using own Initiative
Problem solving skills