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Supply Chain Planner

Employer
Torchlight Solutions
Location
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Salary
Up to £45,000
Closing date
20 Feb 2022

Job Details

A fantastic opportunity has arisen working for a prestigious company based at one of our Clients two facilities in and around the Cheltenham area. We are looking for two Supply Chain Planners to join the existing procurement team. This is a permanent role with plenty of scope. 

Job Role:
You'll be responsible for ensuring inventory and planning processes within the supply chain team are effective and make available material to support business needs within planned inventory values and stock turn KPI. You'll also be responsible for creating purchasing plans that supports the demand plan and production plan established as part of the SIOP process. This position is a key interface between suppliers, buyers and the extended SIOP team.

Job Responsibilities:
* Working with buyers and planners, ensure inventory levels are planned to support internal operational and customer needs.
* Establish inventory management processes that review production yield, forward forecasting and planning and supplier capacity reviews and build them into 12 month rolling purchasing plans.
* Create and Analyse supplier performance data and integrate results into both Continuous Improvements plans and Business Inventory plans.
* Working with operations team understand and identify critical items and establish process to ensure adequate risk mitigation is taken in purchasing plan.
* Attend internal supply meetings as and when required to support Value Stream forecasts and customer demand reviews.
* Manage SIOP supply data analysis to support SIOP process
* Collaborate across all business teams and encourage/present positive supply chain working relationships with key stakeholders

What you've done before:
* 5+ years experience in a supply chain or materials planning role.
* Excellent negotiation, organisational and communication skills
* Commercially minded with an ability to deliver “outside of the box” solutions to commercial problems.
* Positive can-do attitude
* Strong IT skills, including working knowledge of MS office and ERP systems essential (Visual and/or Syteline preferred but not essential)
* Self motivated and confident decision maker who enjoys working in a fast paced continuous improvement environment

Company

Our vision is to become an extension of your business when it comes to your recruitment needs. We can adapt to your requirements whether that be on a regular or ad-hoc basis. Our experience compliments each other perfectly to create effective solutions for all aspects of your business demands.

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