Materials Planner
Are you an experienced Materials Planner? Have experience in procurement and Inventory Management? Have you worked/ would like to work for a Manufacturing business?
If so, this opportunity may be for you.
Role: Materials Planner
Location: Wolverhampton
Salary: £27K
Role Type: Permanent
Hours: Flexible between 8am-4pm and 9am-5pm Monday to Friday with 30 minutes lunch.
Purpose of Role
Inventory control - Plan & purchase all materials for specified manufacturing and warehouse locations in order to meet production requirements and customer demand whilst optimising inventory levels. Carry out analysis & reporting related to inventory consumption & stock levels, to analyse result performance & provision of inventory forecasts to target & budget levels.
Key Result Areas & Responsibilities
- Responsible for the management and planning of inventory, covering more than 300 SKU's over two business units and product streams to achieving inventory targets and budgets.
- Organising, administrating and coordination of the placement of purchase orders for raw materials, finished goods, and packaging items.
- Ownership and management of the complete purchase process from decision making on order placement to order receipt for intercompany supply and external vendors
- Analyse inventory levels and demands to determine reorder levels and safety stocks that will ensure product availability and minimise inventory levels and costs.
- Actively provide input into the demand planning process to capture and react to regional activities, trends, and demand changes.
- Manage B2B purchasing and transactions with daily communication and actions, taking timely actions as necessary.
- Develop existing forecast and supply programs to improve current days of inventory and cash cycle.
- Drive, promote, and develop positive and constant communications with suppliers and key business partners both internally and externally to improve forecast accuracy.
- Coordinate with manufacturing and warehouse teams to ensure material requirements both in-bound and out-bound are correctly reflected in material planning
- Partner with supply planner to ensure allocation and plans meet regional demand requirements, accounting for seasonality and product life cycle.
- Oversee and facilitate all inventory and purchase order transactions within the ERP system.
- Track and escalate inventory logistics as needed to ensure on time arrival.
- Coordinate with suppliers to ensure smooth processing and delivery of goods including customs agents for material imports.
- Monitor, maintain, and analyse current inventory Trends, Metrics and Goals.
- Manage and generate inventory adjustments and transfers in ERP and planning system.
- Update and adapt product forecasts and material consumption in conjunction with the sales team forecasts, in order to meet the demand profile whilst maintaining inventory targets.
- Monitor and drive action planning for slow moving, obsolete, or damaged inventory and instigate actions to minimise it.
- Monitor performance of the suppliers and raise complaints where required through the complaints database. Investigating and processing complaints and invoice queries.
- Advising the production planning and customer services team of any potential issues that may affect their orders and working to resolve these.
- Answering phone calls and reacting efficiently and professionally to queries.
- Maintaining high levels of service excellence whilst adhering to all Company procedures / rules and processes.
- Take responsibility for the control and co-ordination of all stock taking activities across several warehouses
Ideal Background - Education and Experience
- Experience with an ERP / planning system (ideally SAP).
- Degree in a numerate subject desired.
- Education to 'A' level standard or equivalent.
- 1-2 years relevant professional experience.
- Experience of working in a high pressure and target driven environment.
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
- Experience in building strong working relationships both internally and externally.
Personal Attributes - Capabilities and Skills
- Candidates must have demonstrated high-level analytical skills, including MS excel, data-mining software and other analysis tools.
- Ability to create high-level analytic reports, insights, summaries, and recommendations: strong Excel data modelling skills and analysis work required.
- Ability to manage product life cycle through EOL.
- Comfortable navigating systems and ability to adapt quickly to new systems / support UAT.
- Proven people skills required: ability to professionally manage external partners and react efficiently and promptly.
- Team-worker essential, with excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
- Self-starter with high levels of motivation.
- Willingness to "muck-in" as part of a small, closely-knit team.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Ability to understand and solve problems fast.
- Willingness to work as team member but also able to show initiative.
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