Production Planner

Working within DML as a production Planner, you will be the focal point for all aspects of external site operations. Liaising with external sites, direct customers and logistic partners to provide an excellent level of customer service and accurately managing sales & purchase contracts. Playing an important role within the DML department, you will be working closely with all teams (trading, planning and administration) supporting them to achieve and maintain high customer standards. You may also be required to provide ad-hoc support for annual leave cover for the production planning team.

Based in Shepshed (Leicestershire), you will also regularly work with colleagues in various other locations and liaise with numerous sales teams across the UK.
- Customer service - dealing with complaints, building relationships with hauliers & suppliers.
- Calculating and planning in, raw material to meet the demands of the finished product forecast
- Confirming and Planning customer deliveries in line with their requirements
- Daily monitoring of drivers progress via flexipod.
- 3PL logistics management ( ETA’s, time slots and Customer/site complaints)
- Key supplier relationship management
- Daily planning reports completed in a timely manner and sent to the logistics contracts manager.
- Liaising with external logistic partners daily and monitoring performance.