Supply Planner

**Supply Planner**

This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the UK’s leading FMCG businesses as a Supply Planner at our canning site in Long Sutton.

We are one of the largest canned food manufacturers in UK, with 11 sites across the country and several other sites around Europe.

**Who are we**

Few food companies have a heritage as rich as Princes. We are committed to producing quality branded and customer own brand products that deliver innovation and convenience to meet changing customer needs, building on our strength as a trusted partner and sourcing raw materials responsibly and ethically. We have an impressive portfolio of brands such as Napolina, Mazola and Jucee to name a few.

**Shift Pattern**
Monday - Friday 8.45AM - 5PM

**Salary & Benefits**
We offer competitive salary packages (STE) with benefits such as a 14.5% pension (5% employee 9.5% company), company bonus scheme, medical & life insurance schemes with progression opportunities to match. There is also an outstanding staff shop on site where you can purchase heavily discounted products

**Principal Responsibilities (not limited to)**

Responsible for Supply Chain Planning integration across key business functions; ensuring that supply plans and all associated risks are effectively communicated to all stakeholders.

Coordinate repack activities at 3rd party suppliers, ensuring inventory and service level targets are met, and that feasible and efficient plans are provided to repack suppliers.

Responsible for managing the finished goods inventory planning process at distribution centre level, ensuring stock availability for all relevant products and locations.

To manage the end to end supply chain processes of third party contract packing, ensuring supply chain service level agreements are in place and adhered to.

**Dimensions**
- 50 million cases
- £400m turnover
- 1400 sku’s
- 2 Distribution Centres
- Working capital (inventory) c.£40m
- 2 internal production facilities
- 3 repack suppliers
- Responsible for product availability at nominated distribution centres, ensuring stock transfers are planned and executed efficiently, and ensuring accurate reporting of product availability and potential service issues based on supply plans.
- Liaise with MPS Planning Teams and Scheduling teams, to understand risks to the supply plans and expedite deliveries as required.
- Plan and manage all activities at repack suppliers, including weekly repack schedules and medium / long term repack plans. Responsible for finished goods and packaging working capital targets & ensuring stock levels are within budgeted levels, and that any surplus stock is managed effectively. Ensure all relevant packaging from external suppliers is available at repack suppliers. Coordinate all change management requirements at repack suppliers in line with business requirements; close liaison with Commercial functions, Product Launch / NPD, Forecasting, and Customer Services to ensure all new launches and specifications are managed effectively.
- Support the MPS planning processes by providing recommendations on safety stock levels by product and distribution centre. Model safety stock scenarios based on changing variables such as demand variability, lead-times, service levels & supply reliability. Liaise with Site Planning to monitor adherence to Safety Stock levels, and ensure any risks are fully visible to all stakeholders.
- Ensure effective management of the SAP APO system, including all master data requirements and supply chain alerts, and assist in APO development and rollout requirements.
- Planning representative for Contract Supply business, ensuring effective Supply Chain integration between Customers, Princes Supply Chain and Princes Manufacturing operations. Liaise with the MPS Planning Team and Princes Manufacturing Sites to agree production schedules, in line with site constraints. Evaluate demand changes so that the impact on Princes operations and customer service is minimised. Attend customer collaborative meetings as required, to build & improve relationships and ways of working. Generate internal and external KPI reports, to ensure all business targets are met.
**Required Experience**
- Graduate or similar relevant qualification.
- Planning experience, ideally gained in a FMCG environment. Knowledge of production Planning and scheduling, distribution planning, and constraint based network planning.
- Experienced user of SAP APO, or other optimised planning system. Experience in constraint and cost based optimisation.
- Ability to build robust relationships with key internal contacts (Sales, Forecasting, Customer Services, Manufacturing and Logistics).

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
Reference ID: Long Sutton Supply Planner