Materials Planner

Company description:
Refresco Drinks UK Ltd

Job description:
**About you**

Can you perform under pressure in a busy and fast-paced environment? Are you an excellent communicator who thrives working as part of an agile team? Do you have strong Excel experience and great attention to detail? This could be the role for you

**What you’ll be doing**

We are looking for a Materials Planner to ensure that the production schedule is achieved through effective ordering and delivery of materials to sites.You’ll schedule the delivery of raw materials to support our production plan, working within agreedtarget stock levels across all six of our UK sites. You’ll also provide accurate, weekly, 12-week forecasts to suppliers and check and understand material availability following daily plan changes. This will enable you to ensure on-time supply to production,highlighting any key issues, as well as monitoring stock levels on a weekly basis, and keeping in line with inventory stock holding targets.

The role includes but is not limited to:

- Analysing and executing MRP requirements on a daily/weekly basis to ensure the production plan is met and materials are in place at the right time, in the right quantities
- Identifying missing parts/shortages against the production plan, proactively expediting orders and chasing resolution with suppliers to minimise impact on customer service levels
- Investigating the root cause of material shortages, and implementing any necessary corrective actions, or escalating as required
- Reviewing daily overdue deliveries, and following up with suppliers to ensure no impact to the production plan
- Proactively reviewing forward orders on a weekly basis, amending dates/quantities where necessary in order to ensure no over stocking at site
- Arranging site-to-site transfers of materials where necessary and in order to keep material obsolescence within agreed targets
- Reviewing/managing stocks in own categories, ensuring material obsolescence is kept within agreed targets
- Issuing weekly/monthly forecast information to key suppliers
- Providing stock information to project managers as required in order for decisions to be made on delist/changeover dates
- Running weekly “ingredient expiring batches” report, making necessary extension requests to the site Quality Team, whilst also working with Planning/Commercial teams to amend production and reduce write-off costs
- Attending supplier review meetings with the Materials Purchasing Manager, and supporting/following-up any necessary actions
- Taking a lead role on Continuous Improvement projects within the department in order to streamline process improvements, including links with other departments
- Managing and maintaining MRP Master Data within SAP/IREN to enable the full functionality of MRP to be utilised, looking for continual improvement and automation of processes
- Support the MRP Administrators through the recording of the daily supplier OTIF information and provision of RORI (Run Out Run In of packaging) information as required

**What you’ll get in return**

The salary for this role is dependent on experience. We offer an annual bonus incentive and a good company pension scheme, 2x basic salary life assurance plus 25 days holiday in addition to bank holidays (with the option to purchase additional holidays)and access to a sports and social fund. Working hours are Monday - Thursday 8.30 - 5.00, Fridays 8.30 - 4.00, with the option of working up to two days per week remotely and free, onsite parking. We also offer our employees access to GroceryAid - a supportservice offering financial, legal, wellbeing and practical support, advice and counselling to people working in the grocery industry as well as Perkbox - a benefits platform offering discounts, free perks and wellbeing tools for all employees.

**Who we are**

Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We're passionate about producing tasty, refreshing drinks and we’re thirsty for more and growing fast. We’re a global business and invested £1.25 billion in expanding our manufacturing footprint to makeus the largest independent bottler of soft drinks and fruit juices in the world. We currently produce 12 billion litres from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we’re only just getting started

Our UK Business has six manufacturing plants providing a great place to work for 1500 employees producing private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers including Tesco, ASDA, Morrison’s, Sainsbury’s, ALDI and Lidl. We also manufacturefor branded customers such as Innocent, Ocean Spray, Weetabix, Del Monte and Um Bongo. Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards but they get where they need to be when they needto get there to meet the needs of our high profile customers.