Production Planner

**Overview**
- To coordinate all planning activity relating to manufacturing and supplying finished goods at The Welsh Pantry Factory.
- To be customer facing, building relationships in a collaborative approach.
- To develop information to support manufacturing system ie MRP

**Roles & Responsibilities**
- Strive for 100% service level across the customer base.
- Maximise the stock levels to ensure service levels but with minimum levels of waste.
- Establish, maintain and encourage a positive relationship with customer supply chain.
- Maintain a flexible working pattern to fit within the demands of the business.
- To establish planning KPI’s based around service level to be communicated within the business.
- Participate and drive implementation of manufacturing system.
- Ensure all scheduling activity optimises line performance and business profitability.
- Be proactive and drive system improvements wherever possible.
- Communicate to business Welsh Pantry stocks and service level performance.

**Main Duties**
- Obtain and utilise latest customer forecasts.
- Participate in customer contact conference calls.
- Monitor all WIP and on site finished goods stocks.
- Monitor finished goods stocks in 3rd party consolidators.
- Produce demand plans to hit service levels.
- Receive, interpret customer orders to produce demand plan.
- Schedule bakery lines to hit maximum service levels.
- Regularly review manufacturing progress and review accordingly.
- Effectively communicate all planning activities to the business.
- Advise customer supply chain of any supply issues.
- Produce & advise on finished goods stocks to produce optimum pack formats through packing departments.
- Monitor and advise of weekly / daily labour requirements for all departments.
- Monitor bakery and the packing throughput and report attainment to plan percentages and then populate KPI boards prior to operational review meetings.

Any other reasonable request.

**Key Skills**
- Experience of production planning in a High-Risk Food Manufacturing business for at least 3-5 years.
- Ideally some bakery experience.
- Experience of working in fast paced and evolving business.
- Experience of working with short shelf-life products.
- Excellent IT skills.
- Good standard of written and oral communication in English.

**Key Behaviours**
- Excellent communicator at all levels within a business.
- Excellent at problem solving and analysis
- Excellent organisational skills
- Logical thinker
- Attention to detail
- Tenacity and personal resilience
- Ability to adopt a commercial view in a fast-paced environment

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

Pay: £28,000.00-£32,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Bereavement leave
- Canteen
- Company events
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- Production planning: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 30/11/2024