Supply Planner

**Join us at Wavin: Where purpose comes to life.**

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Wavin - an Orbia business where our purpose to advance life around the world drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting our world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we live for. How about you?

At Wavin, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The very places we live in: our cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join forces with us, join our team, and help build more sustainable environments

We want to build a team of people with purpose. That’s why Wavin is currently looking for a **Supply Planner **to join our team at either **Chippenham, Doncaster or Swadlincote**. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

**The role**

Reporting to the Supply Operations and Execution Manager, the Supply Planner will work 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday at either our Chippenham, Doncaster or Swadlincote site. As the Supply Planner you will be responsible for running the planning process for multiple departments. Ensuring plans are produced in a timely manner to minimise any potential hit on service. Cooperating with production teams in terms of delivery schedule, requirements, and availability. Resolving daily supply issues with suppliers.

The main duties and responsibilities of the role are to:

- **Inventory Control & Management**_
- Responsible for Supply Chain ordering of materials and components
- Stock target adherence including Safety Stock evaluation
- Review and manage master data to streamline the process
- Dealing with Import & Export requirements
- **Create value and mitigate risk**_
- Continues review of supply plans to ensure right product mix on stock and service level targets according to S&OE requirements
- Point of contact for production
- Team member of weekly S&OE process providing an input in short to midterm planning
- Giving input to S&OE in terms of potential supply issues, supplier constraints
- To contribute to the successful development of customer supply chain collaboration
- **Supplier Relationship Management**_
- Manage communications and working relationships with suppliers
- Effectively respond and resolve, where possible, performance and delivery issues
- Point of contact for production
- **Drive Continuous Improvement**_
- Improve P&L by driving decrease of slow-moving inventory
- Proposals of improvements of SAP master data
- To undertake structured and frequent review of inventory policies

To be successful in the role you will have/be:

- GCSEs (or equivalent) Grade C/4 or above in Maths and English Language
- A degree in a relevant business discipline is desirable
- Experienced planner/purchaser with practical knowledge in supply planning processes
- System knowledge and experience of SAP R/3
- Knowledge and experience of Reporting & Analytics: SAP BO, MS Office, IBP
- Inbound Logistics knowledge
- Import & Export knowledge
- Previous experience in purchasing & planning process for a multinational company
- Skilled influencer with good communication skills that can effectively and pro-actively communicate across a wide range of stakeholders
- Excellent analytical skills
- A service oriented, team player

**Wavin offers**

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at WavinAt Wavin, we encourage all our employees to develop their talent and to become the best version of themselves with great innovative programs. Here, we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Wavin is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

**Organisation**

Orbia’s Building and Infrastructure business Wavin is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, Wavin is advancing life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens. Whether it’s to improve t