Planner

Fortune Brands Innovations are a US based company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange, that owns and develops a dynamic portfolio of brands for homes worldwide.

Our specialist kitchen and bathroom division, Fortune Brands Water Innovations, is made up of a collection of leading luxury UK brands: Shaws of Darwen, Perrin & Rowe, and Victoria & Albert Baths, which we market under the umbrella brand, House of Rohl.

In addition, Aqualisa completes our portfolio with its market leading digital showering technology.

All of our brands are united by a belief in design, innovation and craftmanship, leading to beautiful and high-quality products.

With manufacturing sites throughout the UK, and a House of Rohl showroom at the Design Centre in London, we currently employ over 600 people who are dedicated to delivering excellent products and service throughout our supply chain. A new multi-million pound state-of-the-art facility at the i54 Business Park in Wolverhampton will be completed later this year, generating exciting new opportunities across the business as we continue to grow.

Our people are what make our business, and we truly care about creating a ‘Home for All’ where employees are empowered to make a difference, and able to bring their authentic selves to work. We are passionate about rewarding excellence and helping people to grow, both personally and professionally, during their time with us.

If you are looking for opportunities within a progressive, innovative, and nurturing organisation; and have the energy, passion, and commitment to deliver excellence, we would love to hear from you.

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join us as a Planner within our Production Team.

**In a nutshell, you will be responsible for**:
Coordinating the production workflow of one or multiple value streams. Planning and prioritising operations to ensure maximum performance and minimum delay whilst ensuring any production issues are communicated and if needed escalated to upper management.

**What you are already great at**:

- Raise, schedule, and if required re-schedule production orders to effectively support Material Requirements Planning (MRP) / Master Production Schedule (MPS) requirements.
- Liaise with buyers to ensure material availability, to meet production plan.
- Release of production orders to production in a timely manner, to ensure plans can be delivered,
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including, procurement, operations and logistics to ensure seamless coordination of production activities.
- Communicate production schedules and priorities clearly and effectively to the production team.
- Collaborate with supervisors and operators to address & resolve production issues that may arise.
- Manage expectations on delivery of all production orders to stock.
- Ensure works orders are closed efficiently and accurately on a weekly basis.
- Prepare and submit status and performance reports that include but not limited to, On Time to Promise, Launch On Time, Plan Accuracy and Past Due Recovery.
- Adhere to the agreed Stock Holding Policies as defined by the business.
- Develop best working practice across the planning function, standardising processes across a multi-site business.

**For this role we would need you to demonstrate**:

- Proven experience as production planner (5 years)
- Excellent knowledge of production planning and quality control principles
- Excellent organisation and prioritising skills
- Experience in using MRP, preferably EFACS or similar (SAP)
- Good knowledge of Excel, numeracy, and analytical skills with strong attention to detail
- Ability to work effectively to deadline.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal and ability to build strong working relationships.
- Strong team player and collaborates easily with others, willing to help and learn from others and shares relevant information with the team.
- Able to demonstrate a creative flair and solve problems.

**What your colleagues say about you**:

- An ideas and solutions-focused person
- An excellent and engaging communicator with the confidence to communicate at all levels
- Very organised and methodical
- Able to communicate ideas both verbally and in writing.
- Very high level of attention to detail

**Our Values**:
Aligned - in our work together

Agile - in the face of challenge

Accountable - to our promises

Action - with integrity and transparency

**Why work for us**:
We reward our employees not just for the big headline results we reward our teams for how you have positively contributed to the business and that isn’t always defined by hitting a financial target.

We have a pay for performance culture and reward annually on results. In an ever changing environment its key that you are a curious and nimble learner. We succeed as a team so the ability to collaborate is essential. And to continue to grow and continually challenge you need to ensure you are able to both plan and align