Planning Manager

The company

Brewster Partners are recruiting for a Planning Manager, for a market leading food Production Company. As the Planning Manager, you will be responsible for effectively leading a team of Planners, Schedulers and SOP Clerks.

The job

• Work closely with stakeholders to ensure that daily forecasts are compiled and communicated effectively
• Maintain a close working relationship with Production, Procurement and Commercial teams with a focus on delivering alignment, efficiency, and waste reduction
• Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Collaborative style, with well-honed negotiation skills to drive common supply chain processes across multiple departments within the site.
• Manage and review stock and systems to ensure deadlines are successfully met
• Lead, motivate and coach the team to deliver consistently high performance, achieve their KPIs and meet their training and development needs
• Encourage and facilitate continuous improvement thinking, collate and share knowledge and best practices and define ways of working for the future
• Monitor sales forecasts and demands from customers ensuring that the team builds these into the business plan
• Identify opportunities for improvements to optimise performance and cost efficiency
• Take overall responsibility for production planning, schedule adherence, and continuity of supply for frozen BULK and Finished products
• Review and ensure the weekly planning process / cycle is fit for purpose and adhered to
• Participate in shaping Supply and Demand Planning strategies, capabilities and processes that aim to improve operational performance and meet high service levels
• Identify opportunities to reduce Slow moving and obsolete stock
• Review and manage demand vs. capacity, delivering solutions to mitigate bottlenecks via developing capacity models; Support management with risk assessments, alternative plans and mitigation activities
• Drive and ensure master data accuracy for all production planning parameters
• Optimise / increase utilisation of system-based production planning– enable long-term planning less offline planning
• Collaborate with other managers to establish and build SOPs for existing and new processes and procedures.

The person

Skills and experience required:                               

• Strong Understanding of Planning
• Experience in supply, demand or inventory planning and execution
• Communication and interpersonal skills with experience presenting to various levels
• Proven strong people leadership skills
• Previous manufacturing industry experience with strong working knowledge of business planned systems
• Strong analytical skills, solutions & process oriented with an understanding of the importance that people, processes and technology in collaboration deliver Best in Class service
• Demonstrated ability to look for solutions to eliminate manual processes, streamline existing processes and improve workflows
• Experience of working within fast moving chilled goods, including supervisory experience
• Track record of delivering business excellence
• Strong communication and organisational skills
• Ability to build relationships with a range of both internal and external stakeholders

The benefits

£40,000 pa

Contact

Lee Gibbons
Associate Key Account Director
Brewster Partners Recruitment Group

Applications

To apply for this job, please send your CV to the email above or to info@brewsterpartners.co.uk quoting "Vacancy: Planning Manager, Reference: LG / BBBH16018". Thank you for your interest.

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