Supply Planner

**Supply Planner**

**Based near Manchester Airport**

**£30,000 - £35,000 plus excellent benefits**

**Hybrid Working & Dog friendly office**

Looking for a new challenge? Wanting to work for reputable organisation who genuinely offers excellent career development, excellent holidays, pension, free car parking, free gym, private healthcare and so much more?

Our client is a well-established distributor that is dedicated to delivering high-quality and innovative products. Due to their ever-expanding growth in the US Markets they are now seeking a Supply Planner to join their team. The business is well respectedand successful -its success is based on great products, hard work, flexibility, and innovation and delivering results.

The purpose of the role is to provide support to the USA Supply Chain Team, ensuring they have adequate levels of stock to fulfil the needs and growth of the business.

This role deals with a wide variety of work tasks including, but not limited to the following:
Supply Planning and Forecasting Support:

- Raise Purchase Orders on Sage 200 and send to suppliers
- Amend, cancel and defer Purchase Orders where required based on stock levels
- Liaise with suppliers to ensure orders are shipped correctly and on time
- Update supply plans with sales, inventory and shipping information
- Work collaboratively with the Commercial Forecaster to identify stock issues and adjust the demand forecast where required (i.e. products selling under and over forecast)
- Input the demand forecast into supply plans and plan orders to ensure that stock holding, and stock availability are at the desired levels
- Actively work to reduce stock issues by transferring stock, derogating short shelf-life stock and carrying out repacks where required
- Communicate effectively with Sales and Customer Services to ensure customers are made aware of any stock issues
- Review the feasibility of new customer launches
- 3PL Management - Liaise with 3PLs to ensure that deliveries are booked in accurately and on time
- Book deliveries into Sage 200 and investigate stock discrepancies on Goods Received Notes
- Arrange transfers between warehouses
- Report any non-conformances

Our client is looking for someone with a can-do attitude, who has the eagerness, passion and drive to succeed in a demanding and challenging environment were accuracy and attention to detail is key.

My client offers competitive salaries and great benefits including: free gym, generous holidays, 5% matched pension, free parking, healthcare.

Based in South Manchester, not far from Manchester Airport they also have great public transport links.