Rm (Raw Materials) Planner

3 days ago


Liverpool, United Kingdom Valeo Snackfoods Full time

Valeo Snackfoods is the combination of Kettle Foods, Tangerine, Big Bear and Its All Good and is one of the UK’s top 100 grocery brands. It is headquartered in Norwich and Pontefract and employs around 2,000 people. Over the past few years, we have strengthened our portfolio to include the Metcalfe’s popcorn brand and Yellow Chips in Emmeloord, Netherlands. The business in the UK and Europe generates revenues of over £280 million.

Our brands include KETTLE® Chips, Metcalfe’s® popcorn, Foxes, Poppets, Barratt (Wham, Fruit Salads, Black Jacks, Refreshers, Sherbet fountain, Dip Dab)

**Job Purpose**

The RM (Raw Materials) Planner plays a fundamental role in ensuring that production schedules are met by purchasing the necessary raw materials in a timely manner. The RM planner supports the MRP function in executing the daily MRP tasks and working in conjunction with Production Planning and the Lead RM Planner to determine the resources necessary to meet the production schedule and to ensure timely arrivals of raw materials into the factory to avoid operational downtime.

**Key Accountabilities**
- Monitor inventory levels against forecast and place orders to maintain adequate levels of parts and raw materials to manufacture the product along with adequate safety stocks without exceeding working capital constraints
- Monitor deliveries to ensure supplier compliance to delivery schedule.
- Process MRP and ensure timely order placement for all purchase orders.
- Monitor bulk tanks each day ensuring adequate stock levels are maintained.
- Checking expected deliveries daily and making adjustments to the delivery schedule based upon amendments to the production plan.
- Updating Sage with BOM’s via the product specification documents.

**Key Measures**
- Maintaining adequate stock levels in line with safety stocks
- Stock outages
- Customer service level
- Raw material working capital
- Obsoletion management

**Competencies (Levels 1 & 2)**
- Customer Focus - Building strong customer and supplier relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions
- Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
- Self-Development - Actively seeking new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels
- Decision Quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organisation moving forward
- Delivers Objectives - The ability to focus on the desire to set challenging goals, focusing effort on the goals, and meeting or exceeding them.

**HSE Responsibilities (Levels 1 & 2)**
- Co-operate with supervisors and managers on health and safety related matters
- Not to interfere with anything provided by the Company to safeguard their health and safety
- Ensure their actions do not place the health and safety of others at risk
- Lead by example and ensure all tasks are completed in a safe manner
- Challenge and stop any unsafe behaviour or work considered to be unsafe
- Complying with Company health & safety requirements, policies, procedures, safe working practices, training, instructions relevant to their duties and responsibilities.
- Complying with any statutory regulations concerning their work
- Working with regard to the safety of themselves and others

**Qualifications/Experience**
- Experience in FMCG material planning - desirable
- Experience with ERP systems in FMCG - desirable
- Organised and methodical
- Strong Analytical skills/numerate
- Ability to work with large amounts of complex data and analyse trends
- Good general IT skills - MS Excel is extremely desirable
- Maths or Business qualifications an advantage

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £25,000.00-£28,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
- Store discounts

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Liverpool, L7 0HA: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- FMCG material planning: 1 year (required)
- ERP systems in FMCG: 1 year (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)



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