Raw Material Planner

**Job Title**:Raw Material Planner

**Location**:Rugeley, UK, WS15 1RD

**Contract and Shift details**:Permanent - Monday - Friday 37.5hrs per week

Have you got experience of managing material planning, stock movements or ordering and shipping of materials and products in a manufacturing environment? If so, we have an opportunity for you

You will be part of a team of 7 who cover imports, planning, outbound logistics and raw material planning which is where you will have responsibility for ensuring that we have the right raw materials in the right place at the right time to ensure that we can manufacture our premixes to order.

We produce around 200tonnes of product a day for animal feed and supplements for the agricultural farm, equine and pet industry. If there is an animal that needs a vitamin or supplementary food support, we make a product that helps. Using internal systems and excel you will understand our material stock including what’s at the warehouse. You will work with suppliers in the UK and oversees to order material stock using a PO system and invoicing so we can manufacture on time and in full when production orders come in.

Our raw materials are made up of ingredients that include vitamins, minerals, amino acids and other technical compositions so you will need to have the ability to understand technical recipes and multiple variations of ingredients as well as quality, regulatory and safety requirements for all materials

This is a great opportunity for someone who is looking for a varied role in a business production environment as part of a well-established team. This is a great entry route for progression and development to wider buying and procurement teams.

To be successful we are looking for some of the flowing knowledge, skills and experience:

- Previous experience of stock management/material planning or product ordering
- Great customer service experience ideally with exposure to 3rd party suppliers
- Good knowledge of MS packages such as Outlook, Excel and Teams
- Ability to learn bespoke IT systems such as ordering processing software or stock management

**Location**

For this role we are looking for someone to be based at our Rugeley site ideally 5 days a week but with some flexibility on an ad hoc occasion