Planner and Scheduler

**Role**:Planner and scheduler

**Site**: Lossie Seafoods, Arbroath

**Shift Pattern**:Monday to Friday, 40 hours per week.

**Pay**: Salary and benefits to be negotiable depending on entry-level skills and/or experience.

**Job Overview**:
The purpose of the role is to efficiently plan all processing activities, including maintaining all systems and planning processes as required as well as calculating and ordering top level raw materials.

**Main Responsibilities:
- Plan and schedule all raw material requirements.
- Liaise closely with production managers, identify all threats to the plan and help devise solutions;
- Working alongside buying team;
- Ensure planned production achieves the most cost effective materials and packaging;
- Effective and timely communication of promotions and product changes to the suppliers
- Balance, control and management of all inventory (packaging, raw material, WIP, ingredients);
- Maintain and update all data as required in Planning files and schedules;
- Identify and progress any cost saving opportunities;
- Attend meetings, taking accurate notes and relaying relevant information back to the team;
- Liaise with customers;
- Stand in for other members of the Planning team;
- Previous experience in similar role, preferably within FMCG
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience dealing with customers
- Ability to communicate with all levels of the business
- Highly computer literate with excellent knowledge of Excel
- Ability to plan and prioritise workloads in order to meet deadlines
- High Attention to detail
- Highly organized with high literacy and numeracy
- Problem solving