My FMCG manufacturing client are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Planner to join their planning team based in the Norfolk area. You will manage the production planning and scheduling of the manufacturing and packing plant.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast paced role, consistently looking at optimising customer experience by managing exceptional product availability.

Client Details

My highly reputable and successful client are the market-leader within their field, across both the UK and globally. Rightly so, they are proud of their heritage, passionate about sustainability, dedicated to providing the highest quality products and service, and offer their employees a progressive and inclusive working environment.

Description

As Production Planning and Inventory Manager, you will have the following responsibilities:

• Achieving a product availability targets of 99.5%
• Issue a weekly production plan/daily schedule for two local sites
• Own site weekly exception and adherence reporting to facilitate execution of the plan
• Support the maintenance of BOM's
• Drive issues to resolution in week or in period (exceptions to S&OP plan)
• Tracking and analysis of key site measures and challenging performance based on these KPI's
• Provide concise and clear information to the site leadership team to enable them to drive action and improvement
• Lead the Capacity Review process including run rate sign off, available hours and labour and gain commitment to forward volumes

Profile

• 2+ years working in a Production, Materials & Inventory Planning, Replenishment & Control role within a manufacturing environment (FMCG advantageous!)
• Strong IT skills - Microsoft Excel Advanced
• Knowledge of S&OP processes and culture
• Continually strives to improve and takes pride in the delivery of own work
• Ability to work with customers to understand their requirements and manage expectations

Job Offer

My client are able to offer training, development and a very exciting career path!

They are offering c. £45,000 - £55,000 plus package and a hybrid working environment (3 days on-site)