Supply Chain Production Planner

5 days ago


Surrey, United Kingdom Kimberly-Clark Full time

We’re looking for a Supply Chain Production Planner to join our vibrant, dynamic and highly social planning team. This is a fast paced environment offering you exposure to a number of different business areas and an opportunity to work in an ever-changing environment with innovative products.

**Your Job**

As a Supply Chain Production Planner you will have responsibility for a particular product family, which will normally be linked to Kimberly Clark sites and external vendors, within the 0 to 4 month time horizon. The role will require daily tracking of stock levels and sales forecasts provided by the Customer Business Units (CBU’s) and liaison with a variety of business functions such as Customer Service, Demand Management, Logistics Operations, Strategic and Procurement teams etc. to ensure optimal product supply, utilizing the SAP Planning system and transactional processes.

**About Us**

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, 25% of people in the world use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know that these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without our manufacturing experts, like you.

We’re also a team that truly cares about each other - kind of like a family but a really productive and focused one. We take pride in our ability to offer a healthy salary for a job well done _and _opportunities for our workers to develop their careers into new skills, roles, and schedules over time. There’s more than one way to create your future with our winning team. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark; you just need to clock in

**Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Contributing to the preparation of daily/weekly production plans within a portfolio (Mill or Vendor).
- Optimisation and rapid day to day communication of change to production and deployment to best meet customer service and inventory objectives.
- Optimise system capability through reporting, planning and transactional systems to deliver objectives, maintaining accurate master data and inventory requirements.
- Execution of product/packaging rollovers, introductions and discontinuations.
- Lead projects to continuously improve planning and supply chain processes.
- Identify, monitor and advise on risks, opportunities and priorities to aid tactical and strategic decision making.
- Management of day to day inventory issues

**The Individual**:

- Previous experience as a Supply Chain Planner/Tactical Planner/Supply Optimiser
- Background in FMCG or similar
- Bachelor’s Degree (BA, Bsc) or equivalent is desirable.
- Experience in SAP is desirable.
- Proven track record of building successful cross-functional relationships.
- Fluent in English is essential (additional language skills would be advantageous), together with first class communication and analytical skills.

**Package**:

- Competitive basic salary plus 10% annual bonus
- Private healthcare
- Generous pension scheme
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

You can also boost your package by choosing a range of our flexible benefits including:

- Holiday trading (buy or sell an extra 5 days holiday a year)
- Discounted gym memberships
- Critical illness cover
- Travel insurance
- Dental cover
- Share scheme options

And many more

**Flexible Working**:
At Kimberly-Clark we are happy to consider requests for flexible working, which can include flexible hours, an element of working from home, compressed hours etc. If this is something you wish to explore, please highlight at interview stage.

**To Be Considered**

**The Legal Bit**

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this role. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

Kimberly-Clark is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

KC is a sponsor of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation Good Recruitment Campaign

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