Planning Manager

2 months ago

Kegworth Leicestershire, United Kingdom Refresco Full time

After an internal promotion join the team at Refresco as a Planning Manager and play a key role in optimising production and inventory processes. You’ll lead a talented team, collaborate with key stakeholders, and contribute to Refresco's growth.

If you're passionate about supply chain planning and want to make a real impact at a global leader in the beverage industry, this is the perfect opportunity to grow your career.

Planning Manager

Kegworth, Derbyshire (J24, M1)

Permanent Monday – Thursday 8:30am to 5pm, Friday 8:30am to 4pm

What’s in it for you?

  • An annual 12.5% bonus
  • Personal private healthcare
  • 6% pension contributions
  • Access to a 24/7 virtual GP for you and your family
  • X3 Life assurance
  • Income protection
  • An enhanced holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays
  • Purchase extra holiday (up to 3 days per year)
  • Access to our brand new employee benefits platform offering discounts, cashback rewards, and access to more optional benefits
  • Access to Grocery Aid – for free financial, personal, health and wellbeing support

About The Role

Reporting to the Head of Supply Chain Planning, this role manages Production and Network Planners to ensure optimal inventory levels at minimal cost, adhering to planning policies. It is responsible for planning production lines and the warehousing network for up to a year, ensuring NPD and new formats are supply-planned.

The role involves liaising with internal and external customers to maximise inbound service performance and includes a 'dotted-line' responsibility for site Schedulers. It also manages stakeholder communication to address conflicts and capacity constraints, minimising financial and service impacts.

Responsibilities include:

  • Execute planning processes to meet customer service levels, optimise efficiency, and manage capital limits.
  • Coach the team to manage capacity, reduce labour costs, and maintain service levels.
  • Manage KPIs and inventory policies to boost profitability and reduce finished goods working capital.
  • Generate inter-site shunting plans to optimise warehouse utilisation and product availability.
  • Lead working capital reduction efforts, collaborating with finance, operations, and commercial teams.
  • Align demand and supply plans with Relationship and Demand Planning Managers, addressing issues and driving resolution.
  • Manage team development, oversee site Schedulers, and mitigate stock risks due to forecast changes or obsolescence.

The ideal candidate for the Planning Manager role will have:

  • Demonstrable supply chain experience, together with significant exposure, gained ideally in a fast-moving consumer goods environment.
  • Multi-site experience or experience for a large site with multiple production lines.
  • SAP experience would be beneficial but is not essential.

We want someone who will lead and role model to the Refresco core values - agile, responsible, excellent, passionate and entrepreneurial - see here for more detail:

About Refresco:

Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global, National and Emerging brands, and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia. Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass. Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market demand Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and has more than 13,500 employees.

Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we’re only just getting started.

We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers.

Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards. Our products get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high-profile customers.

Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.

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