Supply Planner

**Supply Planner**

**Haddenham, UK**

As part of EMEA Supply Planning organization, working collaboratively with cross-functional teams and Customers, when necessary, to develop, plan and implement the Supply Plan for a portfolio, including the balancing and management of inventory, customer service requirements, and total cost to meet finished goods demand with optimized total delivered costs. Managing inventory for New Product launches, managing of disposition of slow moving and obsolete finished goods, and developing and driving continuous & process improvement initiatives within Supply Planning accountability that creates capacity, reduces inventory and/or improves service.

**MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Manages supply planning for existing products/SKUs as well as new products, through collaboration with Supply Chain teams and other departments, to generate medium and long-term supply plan whilst maintaining operational efficiencies.
- Control and maintain Master Data within planning system for the appropriate resources and products to both manage the constraints of seasonality, holidays, business change etc, as well as ensure that conversion costs are accurately reflected/recorded.
- Monitor progress against the plan through frequent contact with Production Schedulers, Material Schedulers and the Operational site team, consulting / informing of any adjustments as necessary, according to priorities, constraints & customer commitments.
- Daily management and problem-solving of supply and inventory plan variances.
- Evaluate slow moving materials and excess inventories and recommend and implement corrective action plans.
- Produce/update all relevant reports as and when required, highlighting corrective actions for non-conformance to target.
- Serves as the Supply Chain lead on cross-functional customer/business teams charged with business development, operational excellence, and capacity development.
- Identify, develop, and drive continuous & process improvement initiatives within Supply Planning accountability.

**CANDIDATE PROFILE**
- A degree in Supply Chain / Logistic or similar.
- Previous experience in Supply Chain Planning, Logistics, Operations, or a relate field required, preferably in FMCG manufacturing company.
- Demonstrated ability to analyse, trouble-shoot, problem solve and resolve complex issues required.
- Demonstrated ability to manage projects and/or process improvement initiatives with cross functional teams using honed influencing & leadership skills required.
- Strong communication and organization skills required.
- Proficiency with MS Excel, Power Point, Word, and ERP (ex: SAP), ECC, APO required.
- Understanding of concepts and principles in Supply Planning and working knowledge of these elements in other areas including other Supply Chain sub-functions, Operations, Sourcing & Sales.
- Working knowledge general business practices & concepts and commercial awareness.
- Strong degree of professionalism and influence when dealing with others and leading cross-functional team(s) to alignment and solutions.

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