Resource Planning Manager - Greenford, United Kingdom - Talentspa

Talentspa

Verified Company

Greenford, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Our client is now looking for Resource Planning Manager to join their newly created function

Salary:
Commensurate with skills, experience and knowledge,plus benefits

Depot based:
Greenford UB6, Middlesex

Working Hours:
Monday to Friday 7am - 4pm

About the Company:

A unique opportunity to join their forward thinking and growing supply chain logistics business who partners with some of the more exciting UK grocery brands.

Through continuous drive for efficiency, excellence and sustainability, exciting opportunitieshave arisen to join their fast-moving perishables goods company based in West London as a Resource Planning Manager to create and develop this core function through people and process implementation.

The role is designed for individuals seeking a career inend to end food supply chain with focus on OTIF delivery across the week and relationship building with cross functional departments to drive sustainability.

Their local and global business prides itself on their family culture, making the work place a pleasing environment to explore your talent and develop essential skills and knowledge for long term career development opportunities in the fresh produce industrysupplying specialty and tropical fresh fruits and vegetables, herbs and ingredients.

A central key role for the business responsible to ensure effective and efficient resource planning and raw material allocation in a lean environment.

To optimise customer channels, demand, supply, yield and capacity to accommodate sales volume growth atmargin expectation. An important role to enable timely and cost effective delivery of joint business plans with key customers, day by day, week-by
- week over 52 weeks.

Resource Planning Manager duties:

Create, implement and manage a centrally driven resource planning function for the business operating 7 days a week Develop and manage a capacity planning tool for resource scheduling purposes
Produce effective rolling day production schedules by production line & depot
Produce effective short (16 Week) Mid Term (112 Week) and Long Term (152 Week) reliable, improved forecasting schedules for use by cross functional teams
Integral to determining raw material allocation to specific production works orders to optimise capacity and yield, mitigating waste, residency and handling
In addition to capacity planning, you will drive operational and performance statistics to enable reporting that will help improve efficiency across depots.
Ensure resources fully available in agreed state, specification and on time to achieve agreed production schedules by production line and distribution efficiency
Manage customer liaison activities to implement day to day order changes and amendments,
Responsible for and communicating continuous demand forecasting and planning projections for raw material, labour, plant & machinery, packaging, transport and distribution to ensure customer order delivery on time in full.
Responsible to ensure accurate key data fields for stock units, customers, packhouse resources, and suppliers across Prophet & OAL
Agility to deliver agreed seasonal plans with short term tactical opportunities
Continuous process of challenge, refresh, update, reconciliation, communication, reporting and management of daily, weekly, seasonal demand forecasts, orders, yield and wastage
Data insights, experience, market knowledge and intelligence based forecasting which incorporates forecast error, cumulative bias, lift, new products, promotional, weather and seasonal volume variation.
Intuitively collaborate cross functionally with CI, Commercial, Procurement, Technical, Operations and Logistics to ensure cost effective, margin enhancing, smooth and efficient running of supply value chains and our UK production facilities with quality,value & product delivery at its core.
Manage agreed specific cross functional KPI's as a basis for monitoring and communicating effectiveness of resource planning function to drive operational excellence and efficiency improvements
Embrace change consistent with company values.
Ensure compliance of all company policies and procedures taking appropriate action where necessary.
Promote a safe and environmentally conscious working environment.
Maintain responsibility for team performance, continually developing skills and knowledge.

Resource Planning Manager requirements:

Educated to degree level or equivalent in a relevant discipline
Highly proficient with IT systems
Clear communication and relationship management skills, internally aswell as with clients
Have a strong work ethic, numerate, analytical, with a results driven and logical approach.
A good commercial acumen and enjoy coordinating projects/driving change.
Resilient, responds well to pressure and manages emotions
Proven track record of resource planning capability within fast paced chilled supply value chain to major retailers in the UK
People management
Attention to detail and natural curiosity and capability in creating analytical insight,
Have a strong knowledge of forecasting methods and formulas
Expert skills in Excel for planning, modelling and scenario planning
Project management and strong reporting skills