Supply Planner

**Location**:_Southern Cluster
- Ultrapharm - Pontypool_**

**Shift**:_Mon-Fri 37.5h_**

**Salary**:_Competitive_**

We have a brand-new opportunity for an Supply Planner to join our Supply Chain Team.

Finsbury Food Group is a leading speciality bakery manufacturer. We constantly raise quality and efficiency standards, and build long-term relationships with major multiple retailers and the foodservice channel. The bread for your morning toast, ready for butter-spreading or egg-dipping. The candle-filled centrepiece for a memorable celebration. The buns, muffins and other treats that turn teatime into quality time. We make 75% of the UK’s sharing cakes from retailer own brands cakes, tray bakes through to party cakes like Caterpillar cakes This is what we do, and why we’re in business. Baking brilliance makes every day special.

Reporting to the Senior Supply Planner Supply Planner will be responsible for producing and publishing production plans for the Ultrapharm site, balancing efficient production verses customer demand.

This role is primarily site-based, with some travel to other Finsbury and / or supplier sites may be required.

This is a great opportunity for someone to gain experience with one of the UK’s largest bakery businesses. They’ll work closely with a friendly and engaging team from both a site and group perspective, offering opportunities for growth and long-term career development.

**This is what you’ll actually do**

You will manage and maintain planning data and system parameters and review demand from customers and adjust production plans accordingly. You will upload daily customer orders and advise of any concerns over unusual or erroneous order patterns and you will maintain finished good inventory that generate customer service levels of 98.5% or better, whilst ensuring write off of finished goods, due to short product life, is minimised. You will manage seasonal events in line with the business needs and will attend regular production review meetings as and when required. You will provide data and / or highlight concerns on a range of planning / production parameters such as yield or efficiency analysis and will consistently review sequencing of plans to reduce change overs, meet out loading requirements whilst balancing labour and production resource. You will work with the Material Planners to arrange for delivery of additional material into production departments as and when required. You will review and react to changes in customer priorities as and when required and will highlight where the Minimum production runs of a product exceeds the forecasted sales volume for the required shelf life. You will manage delist process of products to ensure minimum stock write-offs.

**Ideally this is you**
- Previous experience of working in a fast-paced and challenging environment is desirable.
- Be able to demonstrate a good understanding of Health and Safety and in particular Food Safety requirements.
- Experience of working to set targets and deadlines.
- Be able to demonstrate excellent attention to detail, being able to follow instructions at all times.
- Experience of working on your own, using your own initiative, and to be able to work and contribute as part of a team is essential.
- Be able to demonstrate a desire to improve ways of working, share new ideas and to understand LEAN Manufacturing and continuous improvements is an advantage.
- Must be PC literate and experienced in using and manipulating spreadsheets.
- Confident and able to communicate at levels in the organisation and positively represent Finsbury Food Group to external stakeholders.
- **Positive Communicator** with team members and workers across site at all levels with the ability to communicate clearly and positively and has a naturally ability to get on well with people.
- **Curious** - someone that always looks to improve ways of working.
- **Teamworking** - a strong team worker and takes team working seriously, supporting other team members to achieve production performance standards and targets.
- **Ownership** - take full ownership of the work you are responsible for, complete it successfully with mínimal input and involvement from others.
- **Respectful** - have respect for others in a multicultural and diverse workforce.
- **Good work ethic** is essential in this role, as is reliability, enthusiasm, hardworking and commitment to the delivering excellent performance for the company.
- **Pride** - Take pride in work that results in producing high quality standards.
- **Flexibility** - be able to adapt to changing priorities, demands and plans as the business requires.
- **Problem Solver** - the ability to remain calm in challenging and fast paced environments and be able to find solutions to problems faced with ease.

Our vision is to be the leading speciality bakery group in the UK, and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented pe