Inventory Planner

As part of the successful launch of our diversification project we have created a new role of Inventory Planner. This role will be responsible for all areas of stock ordering and replenishments.

Key purposes of the role are:

- Accurate allocation of stock to retail outlets using in house replenishment system
- Ordering of stock from suppliers to meet future demand
- Managing any shortfalls of stock at each stage of the supply chain
- Timely closure of orders to ensure product is picked on time
- Effective stock ordering to ensure availability is maintained with optimal stock holding
- Ensuring replenishments are cost effective
- Analysis of stock holding and store visits by merchandisers to maximise sales and efficiency

**Essential Skills**:
**Knowledge and Experience**:

- Experience from a media distributor, logistics or an alternative suitable sector (for example FMCG) would be preferable.
- Exposure to demand planning, inventory management, production planning or supply chain would be beneficial but not essential.
- Experience of working in an internal service function would also be beneficial.

**Skills & Personal Competencies**:

- An organised and methodical approach
- Comfortable working to tight deadlines
- Proven skills in planning, analysis, and numeracy
- Proficiency in the use of systems
- The ability to build relationships
- Positive and resourceful
- The ability to challenge effectively
- Effective communication
- High level of commitment to making a difference

**About Company**:
The Frontline Group is made up of Frontline, Seymour, Gold Key Media and Routes to Retail. We’re the market leading UK Distributor and the biggest global exporter of magazines. This means in your career you will have the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting and iconic magazine brands as well as on titles that operate with highly engaged and passionate audiences. Our publishers produce market leading brands such as Radio Times, Good Housekeeping, Closer, Autocar, Paw Patrol, Grazia, Vogue, Slimming World, Match of the Day, National Geographic and many more. As a Distributor we work closely with UK and International retailers, wholesale, International Distributors and other parts of the supply chain to ensure our publishers sales, retail marketing and distribution objectives are met.

The Frontline Group is owned by two of the world’s leading publishing companies, Bauer Media and Immediate Media Company. This will give you the opportunity to grow your career across a number of different businesses and functions, including trade marketing, publishing, brand marketing, sales, finance and supply chain. We strongly believe in developing our own people and have a great track record of taking people from account exec level through to senior positions within the Group.

Our teams are made up of the most talented and widely respected people in our industry and are seen as the experts in their fields. At the Frontline Group we celebrate our differences and seek to ensure everyone feels welcome, trusted and valued for being their authentic selves.

**Bring ‘You’ to the interview**

We want to make sure that we find the best people to work in our teams, and one of the ways we do this by ensuring that all our roles reflect a hybrid approach, a combination of in-office and remote working.

**Essential Requirements**:
**Knowledge and Experience**:

- Experience from a media distributor, logistics or an alternative suitable sector (for example FMCG) would be preferable.
- Exposure to demand planning, inventory management, production planning or supply chain would be beneficial but not essential.
- Experience of working in an internal service function would also be beneficial.

**Skills & Personal Competencies**:

- An organised and methodical approach
- Comfortable working to tight deadlines
- Proven skills in planning, analysis, and numeracy
- Proficiency in the use of systems
- The ability to build relationships
- Positive and resourceful
- The ability to challenge effectively
- Effective communication
- High level of commitment to making a difference