Job Details

Materials Planner

Sector:

Region : North West England

Location: Burnley

Salary: C£26,000

Job Ref.: 88229

Job Information

The Role:
The key focus of the position is to ensure a continuous supply of both finished product and component parts into the business, meeting demand and agreed stock level targets; ensuring that customer service levels can be met, whilst managing stocks such that warehouse storage and product obsolescence are minimised.

We are seeking applicant who can demonstrate the drive and ambition to match that of our client, they are growing at a rapid rate and plan on increasing their growth through organic and acquisition.

Main Duties:

• Forecasting demand for all product ranges based on historic usage and sales promotional activity.
• Maintaining stock levels against order quantities/batch sizes, product mix constraints and lead times
• Liaising with Senior Management; recommending volumes for ordering for each specific range.
• Expediting materials as necessary to ensure material availability to achieve customer service levels
• Communicating supplier performance to relevant departments specifying delivery dates and any alterations of such.
• Managing a booking in system for deliveries of products and related accessories, publishing a delivery schedule on a weekly basis.
• Producing the weekly raw materials stock graph.



Key Experience:

• Previous experience in a materials control/planning role
• Proficient user of Microsoft Excel
• Experienced user of forecasting techniques
• High level of interpersonal skills
• Good analytical thinking skills
• Good planning, organising and integration skills
• Good written and verbal communication skills



If you feel you have the necessary skills and experience to be able to hit the ground running and succeed in this role; then please forward your CV to me as soon as possible.