Inventory Planner

We are excited to be hiring for the role of Inventory Planner to join our team based in Corby. Your role will require you to be the inventory planning specialist for a specific category to contribute and deliver to the category inventory strategy for Supply Chain.

**What you will do to be successful in this role**:

- Manage Supply Plan in line with Category and Cell inventory strategies
- Manage Purchase Order Book to ensure it meets Demand Forecast including expediting and rescheduling
- Support Inventory Control in mitigating Excess inventory whilst keeping within Category and Cell Stocking Policies
- Manage exceptions to Supply Plan including but not limited to zero/low stock and customer order shortages
- Resolve queries regarding product deliveries, working closely with Operations
- Support Buying teams in improving or maintaining vendor performance and identifying cost reductions
- Work closely with Demand Planning to ensure Supply Plan meets customer requirements
- Optimise Return on Investment (ROI) through cross-functional improvement initiatives, implementation of established industry best practices and employing a Total Cost of Ownership approach
- Be key interface for relevant vendor Supply Plan enquiries for both external (vendors) and internal stakeholders such as IC, Demand Planning, Product, and Operations
- Proactively seek to continuously improve processes
- Adhere to the RS Ways of Working: with Passion, Integrity, Innovation, Collaboration, Accountability and Aspiration

**What you will have to be successful in this role**:

- Ability to demonstrate customer-oriented thinking
- Good challenging, collaboration and influencing skills
- Good understanding of inventory management principles and practices
- Fluent in English with strong verbal and written communication skills
- MS Excel proficient
- Ability to interpret data and reports and provide clear analytics / recommendations
- Ability to challenge status quo and drive for high performance
- Ability to operate within a global organisation and to demonstrate cultural awareness
- Diversity and inclusiveness aware

**A little bit about you**:
You have great attention to detail, and you take immense pride in your work. You have strong problem solving and analytical skills. You are well organised able work independently managing multiple tasks efficiently, effectively in line with operational timelines.

**We are RS Components part of the Electrocomponents Group**

As a FTSE 250 company with £2 billion in revenue, we have nine operating brands: RS Components, Allied Electronics & Automation, RS PRO, OKdo, DesignSpark, IESA, Synovos, Needlers and Liscombe. We operate in 32 countries, shipping 60,000 parcels a day to over 1.2 million customers worldwide

Our vision is to **become first choice**. Not just for our customers and suppliers, but also for our people.

At Electrocomponents you’ll be encouraged to think differently and share your ideas, helping our customers to create, develop and discover. As we grow our business, we’ll help you grow - expanding your expertise and helping you become the best you can be. You’ll be proud of the impact you make on the world and appreciated for what you do.

**What we offer**

You can take control of your future here at RS Components. We offer all the good stuff you’d expect like:

- Private medical cover for those unexpected moments
- On top of your 24 days holiday, you can buy up to 5 extra days to enjoy how you wish
- Annual bonus to pay for those extra holidays
- Generous, market-leading pension; it’s never too early to start planning for your future
- Training and development opportunities

Grow in our high-performance culture and be rewarded for your success. Whoever you are, whatever you do and wherever you are; it all starts here.

**Are you ready to explore the possibilities?