Materials Scheduler

3 weeks ago


Redditch, United Kingdom Blue Earth Foods Limited Full time

Schedule supply of raw materials and/or packaging to meet production requirements.
- Raise purchase orders to ensure on time delivery is achieved by external suppliers.
- Continually review volume requirements against short term and long-term customer forecasts.
- Liaising with key suppliers, building an effective partnership.
- Ensuring inbound deliveries are met on time and in full and take appropriate action to minimise production shortages, whilst following up with suppliers to ensure continuous improvement initiatives.
- Management of all inventory to the agreed stock levels
- Provide information to key functions and communicate appropriately to internal stakeholders.
- Working closely with commercial/technical/supply chain teams to understand and execute customer requirements.
- To provide appropriate planning cover in line with departmental holiday schedules.
- Maintaining agreed stock levels in a cost-effective manner, measured by value of P&L inventory used and held on a weekly/monthly basis
- Ensuring stock is available to meet production requirements, avoiding downtime and customer shortages, measured by daily/weekly downtime in production/customer OTIF service levels.
- This role has a responsibility for food safety, brand integrity and Health and Safety
- Good communicator, both verbally and written.
- Ability to form and maintain good relationships internally and externally
- Able to adapt to an ever-changing business environment.
- Be IT literate - strong Microsoft Excel skills would be desirable
- Have a customer focused mindset and be able to provide excellent levels of service to both internal & external customers
- Strong analytical, planning, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent attention to detail skills
- Ability to work under pressure, to tight timescales and be able to prioritise your workload accordingly
- Able to work weekends and change to appropriate shift patterns as required.
- It is an essential requirement that the role incumbent displays behaviours that reflect our ‘Core Values’ of Teamwork, Quality, Honesty and Passion

Demonstrable compliance with competency framework - CL2 with ability to work towards CL3

As a behaviour driven business our competency framework is heavily behaviour weighted. We believe that if we demonstrate these proven behaviours in our day to day work, we will continue to develop into an even more successful business. Please see attached framework for the behaviours we believe relate to effective performance of this role within our business.


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