Materials Planner

7 months ago


Melton Mowbray, United Kingdom Samworth Brothers Full time

**Join the Samworth Brothers Team and become part of our dynamic family**

At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations:
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Private health scheme
- Employee discount scheme
- Experience annual pay reviews
- Profit related pay
- Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities

**The Opportunity**

In this role you will be responsible for ensuring materials / packaging are available to meet demand, through effective ordering and inventory control processes.
Key Responsibilities:

- Liaising with a variety of internal and external parties, including suppliers and hauliers to ensure high levels of service are maintained both efficiently and cost effectively.
- Building internal relationships across site and Food to Go business unit.
- Using the Customer Activity Plan and Promotional Activity Plan to facilitate order placement for launches or promos and manage stock run-down to delists, minimising write off.
- Daily use of department KPI’s to identify appropriate resource stock levels, minimizing waste, special vehicles and redundant stock write off.
- Identify and resolve day to day issues. Taking each case on its own merit, communicate and escalate effectively to both internal and external parties to ensure satisfactory conclusions.
- Good level of English and Maths educated to a minimum GCSE or equivalent standard
- Knowledge of MRP/ERP systems
- Experience of material or packaging planning
- Experience of managing multiple suppliers
- Experience of Power BI is desirable and Excel knowledge would also be beneficial

We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role.

**About Us**

We are a fourth-generation family business producing high quality own-label products for many of the UK’s best-known retailers along with our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris and Walker & Son. We employ over 10,000 people in well-invested modern food manufacturing sites around the country.

At Samworth Brothers we take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.
- **Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative.**_

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Canteen
- Company events
- Company pension
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- Procurement: 1 year (preferred)
- Purchasing: 1 year (preferred)

Ability to Commute:

- Melton Mowbray (required)

Ability to Relocate:

- Melton Mowbray: Relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Materials Planner



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