Planning Assistant

2 weeks ago

Kendal, United Kingdom Kendal Nutricare Full time

**Job Advert - Planning Assistant**

£24,000-£26,000 per annum

**About us**:
We are a **rapid-growth** scale-up disrupting the **infant nutrition **space through our award-winning brand Kendamil - the only infant milk made in Britain, proudly used by the British Royal Family and uniquely crafted locally using British organic full cream milk, without the nasties.

Our company, Kendal Nutricare, is a 160-person team passionate about giving children a better start to life. We’re proud to be a Queens’ Award winning business and to be ranked by the Financial Times as one of Europe’s 1000 Fastest Growing Companies in 2020.

We’re on an exciting path - join us

**The role**:
We are looking to employ a Planning Assistant in a technical role as an integral part of our Planning Team.

The main duties are to ensure that the appropriate schedules are issued to meet the production plan, and to ensure that all materials issued to production have been cleared by QA and are within their allocated shelf life. Making sure that products are issued in strict rotation, by controlling the incoming deliveries schedule. You will support the Factory Planner in this technical role to ensure that the strategic aims of the company are met.

This is a full time role based at our headquarters in Kendal. Monday - Friday, 8:00-16:00.

**What you’ll be doing in**:

- From the packing plan - calculate, produce and issue schedules to production
- Maintain a system for the control of all documentation used in the department
- Monitor incoming deliveries and contact suppliers for updates
- Liaising with suppliers to agree delivery schedules and for return of substandard material
- Minimise write-off by constantly monitoring stocks of materials via expiry reports
- Coordinate annual stock-take
- Liaise with production departments to maintain stock accuracy
- Raising purchase orders

**What you’ll need**:

- Experience in administration
- Good Mathematical skills - GSCEs in Maths and English at minimum
- Excellent attention to detail, a key aspect in this technical role
- Extensive IT skills is essential
- Knowledge of CSB is desirable but not essential as training will be given
- Knowledge of production planning
- Capable of working to deadlines and remain calm under pressure

**What you’ll get from us**:
The opportunity to work for the fastest growing infant milk brand in Europe, alongside a young talented team dedicated to serving thousands of passionate customers.

We offer to all our employees:

- 20 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with additional holidays granted each year for the first 5 years of employment
- A pension scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Life Assurance at 2 x basic salary
- Free on-site parking
- Subsidised breakfast

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

**Salary**: £24,000.00-£26,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Discounted or free food
- Life insurance
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Kendal, LA9 6NL: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: One location

Reference ID: PA001

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