Materials Planner - Kettering, United Kingdom - Vanilla Recruitment (UK) Ltd

Vanilla Recruitment (UK) Ltd

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Kettering, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We're looking for a Materials Planner with previous experience to join our manufacturing client based in Kettering.

Supporting the Materials team to ensure Purchase Orders are placed in line with requirements and within the agreed supplier lead-times, working within agreed target stock levels to ensure mínimal write off exposure.

This role includes liaising with suppliersand sharing longer-term forecast visibility.

This is a temporary assignment for around up to
6 months duration. Due to business requirements, applicants must be available to start in January.

Duties and responsibilities:

Ensuring materials are readily available to meet production plans to achieve target service levels and to identify/mitigate potential risks
Identifying demand requirements and managing orders with suppliers in line with the SLA's
Proactively tracking purchase orders to ensure on time delivery and all advanced requirements are met prior to good being received
Monitoring stock levels in line with the inventory stock holding targets
Working with the production planners to ensure any plan change decisions avoid incurring additional costs
Managing suppliers on a daytoday basis.
Monitoring and reporting supplier performance data and reviewing supplier demand forecasts

Skills and experience required:

Previous experience in a planning/inventory role
Able to communicate in a friendly, professional and effective way (both written & verbal)
Experience of liaising with suppliers and managing those relationships
Stakeholder management experience would be an advantage
Demonstrates excellent attention to detail as well as strong organisational and planning skills
IT proficient, and able to use Microsoft Office, Excel, Word and databases
Can interpret and explain data confidently and clearly

Hours of work: