Strategic Planner

James Walker & Co
**Strategic Planner**

Cockermouth

**About us**
The James Walker Group is a dynamic global manufacturing organisation supplying a vast range of high performance fluid sealing products and associated knowledge-based services to virtually every industry sector. With state-of-the-art skills in materials technology, particularly relating to elastomers, polymers, composites and engineering plastics plus extensive expertise in precision machining of exotic alloys for metallic seals, and tension control fasteners for bolted joints. Our worldwide group of companies has 11 operations and a further 40 spread across Continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand, SE Asia, South Africa and the USA.

**The position**

**Key responsibilities**
- To lead planning strategy at the Cockermouth site and develop, implement and improve the utilisation of ERP and APS planning systems within the business to deliver continuous improvement to internal and external customer service levels in line with the Group Vision.
- To work closely with local and group procurement, manufacturing and planning teams to ensure plans can be executed efficiently and effectively.
- To develop and coach the site and SBU planning teams to raise skill levels to allow the ERP and APS planning systems use to be optimised to ensure short term plans are executed efficiently and effectively.
- To be a major contributor to the Sales and Operational planning process working with Product Management, James Walker Sales Companies, Procurement and Operations to proactively react to changes in demand and supply.
- To proactively support compliance to HSE and Quality Systems and their development.

**Experience and Qualifications**
- Experience in working in cross functional and Multi site teams
- Experience in supply chain planning in ERP systems
- Management of multiple projects
- Experience in APS planning
- Preferred, APICS or other operational planning accreditation

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Free parking
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Holidays
- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- Supply chain: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person