Production Planner

7 months ago


Cardiff, United Kingdom Princes Full time

**Vacancy Name**
- Production Planner

**Employment Type**
- Permanent

**Country**
- United Kingdom

**Location**
- Cardiff

**Business Area**
- Operations

**Workplace Type**
- Onsite

**About Princes**
- The Princes Group has over 7,000 employees with offices and production sites in the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, France and Mauritius. Princes manufactures 350 different food and drink products responsibly sourced and enjoyed by consumers every day. None of this would be possible without striving to be an employer of choice, where our colleagues are proud to represent our business.

**Role Description**

Princes has recently invested over £60 million into the Cardiff site transforming it into one of the UK's leading Centres of Juice Excellence. This is an opportunity to join the team as a Production Planner.

This role sits within the Planning department and is crucial for ensuring that the Production plans meet the customer demand and supply needs.

**Benefits**
- 26 days Annual Leave including a day for your Birthday + Bank Holidays
- 10% Company Bonus potential (75% Princes performance based, 25% Individual performance based)
- 14.5% Pension consisting of a 9.5% Employer contribution (opt-in)
- Flexible holidays scheme - the option to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday per year
- Critical Illness Scheme
- Enhanced Family Friendly Policy - Maternity, Paternity or Adoption leave

**Working Hours**

**Key Responsibilities**
- Re-evaluate service levels daily - proactively amending production schedules to react to demand and sales forecasts so as to optimise customer service and operational costs
- With regard to the production plan, ensure timely delivery of an accurate supply plan for raw materials and packaging scheduling.
- Keep a rolling fixed factory schedule accurate and up to date
- Planning of production lines to maintain efficient, feasible fixed schedule, keeping plans as stable as possible.
- Maintain customer service for the site at 99% or above
- Liaise with MPS Team to maintain finished goods stocks to agreed levels
- Provide accurate and timely information to the material scheduling team
- Communicate effectively with all stakeholders
- Responsible at all times for ensuring optimum customer service in terms of quantity and timeliness
- Has authority to change production plan at any time (with the support of on-call managers during ‘out of hours’ where appropriate)
- Effective management of redundant stocks
- Effective management of NPD/EPD, ensuring customer launch requirements are met
- Regular review of planning run rates in conjunction with operational Department Managers
- Maintain and upkeep of all planning master data
- Collaborative working with the MPS Team to ensure business requirements are met

**Role Requirements**

**Essential Experience Required**
- Production Planning experience
- Advanced Level Microsoft Excel skills
- Strong communication and customer service skills
- Comfortable interacting and supporting colleagues at all levels of the business including NPD, operational and commercial functions
- Self organised and motivated, with the ability to prioritise and work under pressure

**Desirable Experience**
- SAP/APO and associated planning systems experience would be highly advantageous
- Knowledge of integrated and end to end Supply chain planning processes


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