Supply Planner

**Position**: Supply Chain Planner

**Location**: Haddenham, UK

**MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES**:
In this role you will work collaboratively as part of an EMEA Supply Planning organization with cross-functional teams and customers, to develop, plan and implement the Supply Plan for a portfolio within the integrated business planning process.
This will include the balancing and management of inventory, customer service requirements, and total cost to meet finished goods demand with optimized total delivered costs.
Managing inventory for New Product launches, managing of disposition of slow moving and obsolete finished goods, and developing and driving continuous process improvement initiatives that creates capacity, reduces inventory and/or improves service.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Experience in Supply Chain Planning, Logistics, Operations or a related field in an FMCG company
Demonstrated ability to analyse, trouble shoot, and problem solve.
Strong communication and organization skills are essential for leading cross-functional teams(s) to alignment and solutions. Building key collaborative relationships with Customer Service, Logisitics, Demand Planning, Plant Planning and Scheduling, Plant Operations, Commercialization and sourcing significant exchange of information in a concise and logical way.

**Proficient ability in MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and ERP (Ex**: SAP), ECC, APO.
You will also require an understanding of concepts and principles in Supply Planning and working knowledge of these elements in other areas including other Supply Chain sub-functions, Operations, Sourcing & Sales Working knowledge of how Supply Planning integrates within the end-to-end Product Supply Network (Sourcing, Planning, Making & Shipping)
A degree in an appropriate discipline
APICS CPIM is desirable but not essential

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