Supply Chain Planner

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Create short-, medium-, and long-term supply plans and balance demand with capacity, labour, and material constraints.
• Manage planning exceptions such as shortages, excess inventory, capacity constraints, and service risks; maintain Master Production Schedules.
• Monitor inventory, weeks of cover, and stock-at-risk; support component-shortage resolution and supply recovery.
• Contribute scenario planning and risk assessment to Supply Reviews and S&OP; promote schedule adherence and improve OTIF.
• Support product introductions, transitions, delistings, and lifecycle management; review aged, obsolete, blocked, and slow-moving stock.
• Work across Manufacturing, Procurement, Quality, Logistics, Material Planning, Production Scheduling, Transport Planning, and Commercial teams.
• Improve planning master data, parameters, processes, and operational efficiency.

Qualifications and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Business, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience in relevant planning, logistics, or procurement roles.
• Experience in supply planning, production planning, demand planning, supply chain planning, or related operations; manufacturing experience is preferred.
• Food ingredients, flavours, beverage, FMCG, pharmaceutical, or process manufacturing experience is advantageous, not essential.
• Understanding of S&OP, inventory management, and supply planning; ERP proficiency and strong Excel skills are required.
• SAP is beneficial but not essential; SAP APO, SAP IBP, Kinaxis, OMP, or equivalent planning tools are advantageous.
• Power BI or other data visualization familiarity is a plus.
• Requires data interpretation, problem solving, stakeholder management, communication, prioritisation, proactive risk management, and attention to detail.

Schedule

• Full-time, on-site role, five days per week.
• Working hours are 08:00–16:30 or 09:00–17:00, with a 30-minute lunch break.

Workplace

• The advert specifies an on-site workplace arrangement.

Benefits

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