Material Planner

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**VIRTUOSO DOORS** is an industry-leading business, providing one of the largest high-end composite door ranges available. With a capability and capacity that continue to grow, Virtuoso Doors’ success is born from both the excellence of its products and the outstanding calibre of its people. Part of a group that includes Customade Group Ltd, Polyframe Ltd, and Stevenswood we are expanding and operate from our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility based in Gateshead.

We are now looking to recruit a permanent Material Planner for our Virtuoso Doors Division

**Job Purpose**

Reporting to the Inventory Manager, and working as part of the Supply Chain team, you will be responsible for ensuring that the supply of materials meet the production schedule. The material planner’s responsibilities include creating, maintain inventory schedules, coordinating with internal departments, and managing external stakeholder relations.

**Key Duties**
- Create POs for the replacement of orders with suppliers
- Logging POs and creating weekly and monthly spend analysis
- Creating order schedules through PI counts and stock tracking spreadsheets
- Create inbound delivery schedules for goods in team
- Managing backorders and flagging any potential stock outs
- Price check invoices against POs and match with delivery note for accounting purposes
- Perform data analysis and issue reports on supplier performance to ensure suppliers meet and maintain expected performance levels
- Assist in the requests for quotations and tender analysis
- Deliver cost down and cost avoidance initiatives in support of the company’s stock holding targets
- Complete monthly stock takes
- Aid in the creation of SCARs and the subsequent implementation of improvements
- Responsible for supporting continuous improvement within the systems and best value principles
- Complete, create and track credits of fault goods and communicate timeline to production of replacement items
- Support on projects where needed

**To be successful in this role**:

- Previous experience of materials planning in a manufacturing environment, with a knowledge of manufacturing processes and supply chain management
- Working knowledge of ERP systems ideally, Netsuite ERP
- A good working knowledge of purchase ordering systems and processes along with experience in complex stock takes and best practice stock control
- Forecasting, tracking, and maintaining stock requirements
- An understanding of Bill of Materials
- Well organised, disciplined, and self motivated with the capability to balance multiple priorities
- Hands on, hardworking, motivated with a can do attitude
- Strong analytical, planning, forecasting and problem solving skills
- Understanding of JIT ordering techniques
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to form and maintain good working relationships internally and externally
- Strong IT skills including PowerPoint, Excel and other packages in the Microsoft suite of products

**What you can expect from us**
- Professional development - to advance the capabilities of our people, we offer a wide variety of experiences to support our employees professional growth and continuous learning
- Competitive salary and holiday entitlement and company contributory pension scheme?
- Employee Assistance programme

**What we offer**:
**Salary**:£25,000

**Contract**: Permanent

**Hours**: Monday to Thursday 7.30am - 4.30pm, Friday 7.30am -1.30pm (38.75hrs)

**Location**: Gateshead

**Benefits offered**:

- 22 days Holiday leave plus Bank Holidays
- Company Progression
- Free onsite parking
- Death in service
- Individual Health care
- Uniform provided
- Discounts on our own products
- EAP Programme
- Training and Succession Planning

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