Supply Planner

**Supply Planner - Nelson Head Office - Competitive Annual Salary**

**About the job**:
You will be responsible for accurate stock management planning and forecasting for your range, managing optimum stock levels to ensure availability and profit targets are delivered.

Working closely with Senior Buyer in your area, you will analyse range performance, launch new products and deliver long-term improvements in availability and waste.

**What you will do**:
Forecasting and Inventory Planning
- Proactively driving sales and availability through effective forecasting and inventory planning, raise daily purchase orders with suppliers.
- Be responsible for managing and maintaining accuracy of all product and supplier data in the Wellocks system.
- Be accountable for availability and waste in your category area.
- Work cohesively with the wider Purchasing Team to ensure smooth seasonal product transitions and events planning i.e. Christmas.
- Responsibility for any daily fluctuations in pricing and ensuring daily data accuracy in the system.

Supplier Management
- Build and maintain supplier relationships to ensure delivery accuracy and our On Time, In Full, target is met.
- Conduct regular supplier service reviews.
- Ensure suppliers payments on time.

Stakeholder Management
- Effective communication and relationship building within operational, IT and Sales Teams to ensure optimum stock management at every stage of the supply chain.
- Work with the Operations Teams to plan optimum supplier deliveries and collections across UK and Europe with responsibility for cost management of supplier deliveries.
- Accountability for product quality through the supply chain and work with QC teams to drive continual improvement in quality and freshness
- Cross collaboration across different purchasing categories on daily and weekly reporting.

**Knowledge & Experience**:

- Experience in either a buying assistant or supply planning role in food
- Understanding and training in negotiation and supplier management
- Owner mentality with demonstrated experience of continuous improvement and implementing process change.
- Strong analytical skills and proficient in Microsoft Office
- Proactive with high levels of initiative and ability to seek out opportunities
- Detail oriented with the ability to multitask and prioritise

**Let us tell you some more benefits you would receive**:

- 33 days of Annual Leave per year
- Fancy volunteering? We will give you one day off a year to take part in volunteering.
- Generous discounts on our products
- Cycle to Work Scheme that offers discounted bikes and cycling equipment.
- Donate through your pay to a charity of your choice. The money is simply deducted through your pay before tax, so for every pound you donate, the 20p that usually goes to tax will go to the charity instead
- We also have a range of employee assistance services which can be tailored to give you support on various matters such as financial, health and wellbeing advice.
- We treat our teams to a free meal every few months, from our visiting fish & chip van, to freshly made bacon baps from our in-house chefs

**About us**

Wellocks, is one of the leading UK food distributors in the hospitality industry. We provide fruit, vegetables, dairy, eggs, poultry, meat, store cupboard essentials and everything else chefs will need in their restaurant kitchen. Thanks to our highly skilled team, we also offer pre-prepared veg and freshly-made pasta which is a key part of our service.

From our humble beginnings in 1961 supplying potatoes to local pubs and restaurants, 60 years later we now supply over 1,200 restaurant kitchens across the country with amazing ingredients.

We’re proud to be part of the William Jackson Food Group, a dedicated family-owned food business which started in 1851. Our sister businesses are Abel & Cole, Jacksons Bakery and Belazu. Family values and the commitment which comes with such a long-standing business are rooted in our culture here at Wellocks.

**Contact information**:
Anna Heyworth