Production Planner

13 hours ago

Melton Mowbray, United Kingdom SamworthBrothers Full time

**About The Role**:
**Join the Samworth Brothers Team and become part of our dynamic family**

At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations:
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Private health scheme
- Employee discount scheme
- Experience annual pay reviews
- Profit related pay
- Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities

**The Opportunity**

In this role as a Planner, you'll play a vital part in ensuring materials and packaging are available to meet production demand. Your role will involve effective ordering, inventory control, supplier engagement, and cross-functional communication to drive performance and efficiency across the site.

Key Responsibilities:

- Manage daily system updates and ensure accurate order placement with suppliers.
- Build strong internal and external relationships to maintain service levels.
- Place orders and schedule deliveries in line with production plans.
- Daily monitoring of production plans to identify and implement effective initiatives to maintain schedule adherence, compare plan vs actual and adherence to preferred plan.
- Maintain and update planning systems and Excel stock boards. Use KPIs to optimise stock levels, reduce waste, and prevent redundant stock.
- Experience in a similar planning or supply chain role within a manufacturing environment.
- Strong knowledge of MRP/ERP systems and intermediate Excel skills.
- Confident communicator with strong attention to detail and organisational skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, suppliers, and deadlines effectively.
- High level of numeracy, literacy, and a solutions-focused mindset.

We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role.

**About Us**:
We are a fourth-generation family business producing high quality own-label products for many of the UK’s best-known retailers along with our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris, Urban Eat, West Cornwall Pasty Company and Walker & Son. We employ over 10,000 people in well-invested modern food manufacturing sites around the country.

At Samworth Brothers we take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.

**_Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative._

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