Logistics Planning Analyst

3 days ago


Cheshire East, United Kingdom Innova Solutions Full time

Job Title: Logistics Planning Analyst

Location: Birchwood

Contract- 6 Months


Flexible working arrangements will be considered for this role, in-line with the needs of the business.

Sponsorship & Relocation is not supported for this role.


Job Summary

An exciting opportunity to work as part of the Inbound Supply Team who are responsible for managing supplier schedules and performance whilst helping drive customer availability and profitable growth for the business.


This role is essential in ensuring that lead time supplier schedules are acknowledged and managed into the business on time, in full and compliantly, as well as ensuring that all supplier arrears and customer backorders have relevant and up-to-date promise dates or robust action plans in place to recover. This role also requires timely action, responding to escalated customer requirements, managing internal and external expectations and challenging supplier performance.


The success of this role is achieved through a tenacious work ethic and belief in delivering best-in-class customer service.


What You Will Do:

  • Ensure that all customer backorders have a relevant and up to date recovery/availability date.
  • Manage communication to the Customer Services group where a recovery date is not provided.
  • Report supplier adherence to processes surrounding order acknowledgements and ASN deliverables.
  • Manage output from our forecasting system, communicating firm requirements and negotiating schedule changes with the supplier.
  • Arrange collection transportation where appropriate.
  • Weekly & monthly analysis across the desk to identify and report on Supplier Performance failure:
  • Use Tableau reporting to highlight account adherence to schedules by Suppliers
  • Use output of Built In Quality process to drill down and provide root cause fix to reasons behind instances causing business grief on physical and invoice receipt.
  • Using Plan-Do-Check-Act method to formulate action plan / next steps for suppliers of focus.


What You Have:

  • Previous work experience within a Supply Chain function
  • Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications
  • Previous work experience and knowledge of SAP systems.
  • Previous work experience and good knowledge of EDI (Electronic Date Interchange)
  • Knowledge of Lean methodology and 8 Wastes.
  • Ability to identify a problem, articulate it clearly, progress it to a solution involving others as appropriate
  • Strong team ethic with the ability the work on own initiative
  • Proven ability to maintain react and think quickly to fast moving fluid situations and deadlines
  • A collaborator, building strong working relationships with all levels of all functions, always working towards a win/win result across all relationships
  • Demonstrate meticulous levels of attention to detail.
  • Ability to Prioritize according to discipline of Business Goals whilst remaining flexible and adaptable to customer specific requirements.


What You Will Get

  • The opportunity to work for a diverse, world-class business with a competitive salary and the opportunity to work flexibly.
  • Opportunity to work with a team that is critical to the success of the Aftermarket Parts business and to work with a number of different external suppliers and internal departments across the business to drive cross-functional working and decision making to drive profitable growth for the business.


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