Materials Planning Manager

Your new role
The Planning Manager will ensure all correspondence andcommunications with the customer are carried out in a timely and professionalmanner at all times. Become the go-to person for your area of responsibility.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Maintain and develop existing and new customersthrough appropriate communications.
• Analyse and interpret customer schedulerequirements to ensure on time deliveries.
• Analyse, communicate with and schedule onsuppliers and own manufacturing sites ensuring JIT deliveries whilst minimisinginventory holdings.
• Ensure the material planning cycle is accuratelyreflected in our MRP (Material Planning) system.
• Enter or maintain customer schedules, via EDI(Electronic Data Interchange) and other processes in an accurate and timely manner.
• To be responsible for and the first point ofcontact for specific customers; maintain and develop existing customersdevelopment plans and progress shortages to ensure on time deliveries.
• Analyse, evaluate and action MRP to ensuremaximum on time deliveries with minimum inventory holding.
• To be responsible for and the first point ofcontact for specific suppliers maintain and develop existing suppliers'development plans and progress shortages to ensure on time deliveries.
• Continually work to improve working processes,on time deliveries and cost reductions in conjunction with other departments
• Maintain data integrity and support finance,quality and dispatch teams with day-to-day operations.
• Analyse and interpret large sets of data and beable to present in a way in which people will understand.
• Being the key liaison between internal departmentsand customers.
• Use initiative to resolve issues and not beafraid of making decisions.

What you'll need to succeed
You will have previous experience in a very similar role either within Materials, Production or Supply Chain Planning. You will have excellent people management skills as you will be leading a large and diverse team, all with different levels of experience.

You will be determined and driven to succeed, possess excellent customer service skills and be able to prioritise a busy workload and have excellent problem solving skills. Excellent ICT skills will also be required with strong experience in using MRP systems and Microsoft Excel.A background or experience from either a logistics, manufacturing or production environment would be advantageous.

What you'll get in return
An excellent package is on offer for this role with a competitive salary of c.£50,000 per annum. You will also get an excellent benefits package with a great pension scheme, 25 days holiday plus the addition bank holidays, flexible/hybrid working options and a real opportunity for progression with a forward-thinking business that continues to grow.

What you need to do now
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