Supply Chain Manager - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Reed Business Support

Reed Business Support

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an experienced Supply Chain professional to join a brilliant client of ours as a Demand Planning Manager on a fixed term contract for 18 months starting in late Feb/early April.

This role is to manage a team of 7 in total that includes 2 demand planners, 1 supply chain planner, and 4 administration staff.

This role will suit someone with wealth of demand planning or production planning experience, who has team management experience also.

This person will need to be a great problem solver and can identify possible issues before they arise.

Salary = £45-55,000 per annum (depending on experience)
Hybrid working = 3 days a week office based - Site in based in Aston area

Expectations:

Manage team, along with monthly One to Ones and Annual PDRs
Liaising with the NPD department on new launches/Product changeovers
Liaising with the sales team on any product exits
Challenge accuracy and ensure the correct loading of the forecast into SAP to drive demand
Ensuring the correct production quantities are being produced in line with forecast and product/material changes. This is across two different production sites and 6 production lines
Communicate relevant production plan changes across to wider business
Lead the team in ensuring supplier forecast are sent out correctly and ontime
Managing materials and providing authorisations to manufacture to suppliers as and when required
Liaise with engineering managers to add in weekly and additional asset care for production lines to ensure we are gaining the best performance.
Warehouse monitoring to ensure we only fill our capacity with the correct products
Support other departments as and when required
Communicate any forecast required changes with contract pack customers
Attend ongoing training to support the development of your role
Previous demand planning manager/coordinator or production planning experience is necessary
Experience of SAP systems would be an advantage
Advanced Excel skills, including vlookups, pivot tables
Team management experience
Accurate and good attention to detail
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate at all levels
Confident with ability to handle pressurised situations in a calm and composed manner
A team player who is hardworking, selfmotivated and proactive