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My client, based in Swindon are recruiting for an experienced Supply Chain and Planning Manager.

They have on site parking and an early finish once a week, alongside 2 x life insurance and a contributory pension. This is a fabulous opportunity for a Supply Chain / Planning Manager to join them

The Role - 

• Manage and develop a multi skilled Supply Chain team including Material Planner, Planning Manager and Logistics Planner
• Oversee the inhouse Technical Department
• Develop and implement appropriate systems and procedures in line with company requirements
• Liaise with the Commercial Departments in order to produce a robust 6 month rolling sales demand forecast that drives the material requirements plan
• Work alongside the Marketing team and specifically the Purchasing Manager, to ensure the smooth and timely introduction of new materials. Plus, the smooth and timely exit of obsolete materials
• Liaise with the Customer Support department and logistics partners to ensure that end to end Customer SLA’s are achieved
• Effective material requirements planning, maintaining lean stock levels whilst at the same time zero stock outs
• Efficient production planning, proactive management of sales peaks and troughs and adherence to production lead time SLA’s.
• Monitoring of supplier performance alongside the Purchasing Manager

• Excellent planning and organisation skills
• Natural ability to take ownership of the function
• Open to learning new processes whilst able to challenge existing methods constructively, always with a view to achieving improvements
• Attention to detail
• Ability to motivate and lead a well-established team
• Ability to build successful relationships with a variety of stakeholders throughout the organisation
• Excellent communication skills.
• Confident with ERP packages and Microsoft Excel, experience migrating several processes into one ERP system.

Reed Specialist Recruitment Limited is an employment agency and employment business

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