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**Agricultural Planner**

**Hereford**

**Upto £32,000**

Yolk Recruitment are proud to be working with one of the UK largest food businesses looking for an Agricultural Planner to join their expanding team. This is a great opportunity to work alongside a well-established, forward-thinking company.

**This is what you'll be doing**
- Creating and maintain processing plans to ensure that factory demand is met on a daily basis
- Ensuring that plans are kept up to date with the latest information including weights and moralities
- Communicate daily and weekly plans to those who require it including farms, factory and various other parties
- To manage plans over a number of weeks in order to forecast how weight and performance is changing and understand what needs to be done in order to maintain company targets
- Plan broiler chick placements in order to ensure that factory supply is in line with what the business requires
- Effectively manage placement densities, grower turnarounds, cycle lengths and any additional placement requests as and when required, e.g., Trials, new sites/housing
- Assist the Hatchery Planner with delivering the chick plan through capacity monitoring and chick purchases from 3rd parties.
- Manage parameters within Mtech and ensure information is kept up to date and entered correctly, including placement information and 3rd party delivery notes
- Communicate to our extensive grower, base their next planned chick placement.
- Liaise with 3rd party companies to buy or sell live birds as / when necessary, in line with maintaining target weight
- Coordinate with farms and area managers to ensure that information is accurate and is received in a timely manner
- Monitor planned weights against actual weights on a daily basis
- Monitor performance and to highlight to the management team any anomalies or significant drops in performance
- Develop strong working relationships with farming partners and communicate information/plans accordingly
- Assist in the development of agricultural planning systems in support of planning process and to manage changes as part of a wider IT project
- Develop and maintain performance metrics which demonstrate strong understanding and control over plan performance
- Ensure that our agricultural processes are not planned to break legislation

**The experience you'll bring to the team**
- Demonstrates understanding of supply chain and planning
- Previous experience in a demand/supply or factory planning role
- Strong IT skills - competent in Excel
- Strong numeracy and analytical skills
- Confident, open, collaborative communicator
- Structured and organised - punctual with the ability to work to strict deadlines and multi-task
- Capable of organising and delivering change projects
- Good verbal and especially numerical reasoning
- Approachable, personable and team focused
- Proactive self-starter with a strong work ethic

**And this is what you'll get in return**
- Competitive Salary
- 31 Days Holiday
- 6%Pension
- Life Insurance
- Various lifestyle benefits, including well being resources