Materials Planning Manager

4 weeks ago


Lincolnshire, United Kingdom Hays Full time

The Planning Manager will ensure all correspondence and communications with the customer are carried out in a timely and professional manner at all times. Become the go-to person for your area of responsibility.

Main duties and responsibilities:

  • Maintain and develop existing and new customers through appropriate communications.
  • Analyse and interpret customer schedule requirements to ensure on time deliveries.
  • Analyse, communicate with and schedule on suppliers and own manufacturing sites ensuring JIT deliveries whilst minimising inventory holdings.
  • Ensure the material planning cycle is accurately reflected 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 of contact for specific customers; maintain and develop existing customers development plans and progress shortages to ensure on time deliveries.
  • Analyse, evaluate and action MRP to ensure maximum on time deliveries with minimum inventory holding.
  • To be responsible for and the first point of contact 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 be able to present in a way in which people will understand.
  • Being the key liaison between internal departments and customers.
  • Use initiative to resolve issues and not be afraid 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.


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