Scheduler / Planner

Acorn is currently offering this unique opportunity for a Scheduler / Planner or a graduate from university with a background in export or production planning with good excel skills to join their clients team working four days on, four days off, from 6am-6pm.

Hours: 4 on 4 off, 6am - 6pm

**Salary**: £29,000 - £30,000 per annum

Example of role responsibilities:

- Using forward planning, you'll use sales forecasting and historical information to highlight anomalies in non-attainment, including product shortages, so issues can be discussed and reviewed with the senior team
- Meeting forums must be introduced so that all team members concerned have an opportunity to review data and plan for bottlenecks
- Expect accurate stock takes from the operations team and challenge non-conformances. This behaviour must be driven hard in order to ensure the business planning accuracy is sustained within peak periods.
- Ensure sales orders are processed in a timely manner, check their accuracy and measure against forecast
- Carry out reconciliation of PODs order to ensure that customer claims are minimised
- Ensuring all orders are completed to the customer's satisfaction, by the correct

quality specification in the most cost efficient method
- To have an open and honest relationship with the Operations Director to be able to discuss problems and concerns, roadblocks, and new ideas in a positive manner

Your experience:

- Planning experience in manufacturing (desirable)
- To strategically plan, the business performance using the sales forecast and historical data in order to ensure customer orders are met
- To analyse this data and highlight obstacles that stop these orders being achieved (ie. availability and find alternatives for the customer)
- Plan availability and communicate the collection plan with the transport manager
- Measure and publish production, sales and producer performance against an agreed plan
- Ensure goods are received and all PODs are balanced prior to submitting to the accounts team
- To create daily plans for the operations team highlighting capacity issues so that labour can be correctly planned in order to hit budget
- Forward plan seasonal activity and new products and ensure the team are fully briefed so that capacity issues can be dealt with in a timely manner
- Proactively work within the senior management team to improve business performance challenging the status quo and supporting other colleagues to achieve their own objectives
- To ensure that food materials dispatched are safe, legal and of the quality expected by the business and customer

Essential:

- Good written and spoken English
- Must have excellent Excel skills
- Computer literate with knowledge of Microsoft packages
- Excellent communication and organisational skills
- Self motivated
- Strong multi-tasking skills
- Health and Safety awareness

For more information on this job role, please get in touch with Kristy Moore at Acorn.

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