Materials Scheduler

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**Materials Scheduler**

**Location**: Hull

**Contract**: Permanent

**Hours**: Full time

**Salary**: Competitive

Our story goes back more than 150 years, to the chilly southern coast of Scandinavia. From our early success in Sweden and Denmark, we’ve grown into the world’s leading specialist producer of plant-based oils, employing more than 4,000 people all across the globe.

We work with our customers to make the products you love even better. The oils we produce go into making your chocolate extra-creamy or putting the crunch into your croissant. And it’s not just food — we work across industries to make products that are higher quality, healthier and better for the planet.

Everything we do is about Making Better Happen.

**AAK International (Hull)**

AAK International is in the heart of an area enjoying significant redevelopment and investment. The Port of Hull is being established as a world-class centre for renewable energy and manufacturing, and at AAK we feel proud to be part of this important industrial renaissance for Yorkshire. We operate the UK’s largest refinery for edible oils and fats at our King George Dock site, and supply ingredients and finished products to businesses in the food manufacturing, baking, foodservice, and retail sectors. We enjoy working closely with customers to co-develop bespoke products, in our well-equipped Customer Innovation Centre.

**About the role**

**Responsibilities**
- To order raw material components to meet the short/medium term production requirements across all production areas in line with forecast.
- Control stock movements into the site and external warehousing whilst working to strict storage constraints, including oil movements from AAK Europe.
- Work alongside the Production Planners and facilitate where possible, fluctuations in demand against production forecasts.
- Highlight and raise supplier service issues to ensure timely component supply
- Work closely with the warehouse and procurement department to chase deliveries, outstanding orders, collections and returns whilst keeping all system data accurate.
- Analysing usage trends vs forecast. Reporting on findings.
- Develop and work with suppliers to determine a good working relationship
- Highlighting any impending stock outs. Weekly report to be issued.
- SAP master data to be maintained and reviewed. To develop and improve SAP systems.

**About you**
- Experience working within a similar role.
- SAP experience is desirable.
- Experience of customs procedures
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Able to meet deadlines, time manage and prioritise workloads.
- Problem solving skills.
- Computer literate.
- Able to work on own initiative and as part of a team.

**In return AAK offer**:

- 10% non-contribution pension.
- Bonus scheme.
- UK Healthcare scheme.
- 25 days holidays plus bank holidays.
- Group life cover.
- Group income protection scheme.
- Ride2Work scheme.

**About AAK**

Everything AAK does is about Making Better Happen. We specialize in plant-based oils that are the value-adding ingredients in many of the products people love to consume. We make these products better tasting, healthier, and more sustainable. At the heart of AAK’s offer is Customer Co-Development, combining our desire to understand what better means for each customer, with the unique flexibility of our production assets, and a deep knowledge of many products and industries, including Chocolate & Confectionery, Bakery, Dairy, Plant-based Foods, Special Nutrition, Foodservice and Personal Care. Our 4,000 employees support our close collaboration with customers through 25 regional sales offices, 15 dedicated Customer Innovation Centres, and with the support of more than 20 production facilities. Listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and with our headquarters in Malmö, Sweden, AAK has been Making Better Happen for more than 150 years.