MRP Packaging Planner

**MRP Packaging Planner**

**Blackburn, Lancashire**

**Full-time, Permanent (Monday to Friday, 8am-4pm)**

We are recruiting an MRP Packaging Planner to work alongside our Raw Materials MRP Controller to manage packaging stock levels and ensure the correct packaging is in the right place at the right time for our production plans.

**Who are we looking for?**

Do you thrive on meticulous organisation and possess impressive IT skills, including hands-on experience with ERP/MRP systems?

The MRP Packaging Planner will be responsible for managing packaging stock levels, ensuring smooth production operations, and maintaining strong supplier relationships. This role involves coordinating with various departments, monitoring deliveries, and producing detailed reports to optimise our packaging processes.

To do this, you'll need to have excellent communication skills and be able to collaborate effectively and cross-functionally - mainly with procurement, production, finance and warehousing.

Previous experience in either a production/operations role or even a procurement/commercial role would be a great advantage

**The role of an MRP Packaging Planner at BBF**

Ensure uninterrupted production by managing site packaging stocks within budget and warehouse capacity.

Establish and maintain strong supplier relationships.

Monitor delivery status, ensuring on-time and in-full (OTIF) deliveries, and resolve delivery issues.

Coordinate with the warehouse to manage incoming deliveries and address non-deliveries.

Generate and distribute weekly/monthly forecast reports internally and externally.

Collaborate with suppliers to produce and update weekly stock sheets, agree on print runs, and place necessary orders within contracts.

Update print run trackers and manage packaging launches, addressing order and delivery issues in advance.

Monitor delisted materials to reduce waste and challenge sales forecasts to minimise liability.

Review and update packaging artwork trackers and Horizon spreadsheets.

Produce and monitor supplier service reports.

Maintain the ERP system, resolving BOM/SKU errors and improving the MRP process and system.

Coordinate with BBF 3PL warehouse providers to ensure accurate stock booking and communication for deliveries.

Provide backup support for the raw material MRP controller.

**Who are BBF Limited?**

BBF Limited are one of the UK's leading ambient cake and chilled dessert manufacturers of retailer own label, licensed and branded cakes, supplying recognisable major retailers across the UK and European market.

Our team of experts develop and manufactures a wide range of high-quality ambient cake products across several different categories including celebration cake, mini rolls, mince pies, fruit pies and a wide range of chilled desserts including cheesecake, crumbles and sponge cakes. These include mince pies, celebration cakes, slab cakes, cupcakes and many more

We are passionate about our products and aim to put the customer at the heart of everything we do.

We have doubled within the last 5 years and we're not looking to stop growing any time soon But we can only do that with exceptional talent across all levels and disciplines of the business. That is where you come into it

On top of making some really tasty cakes and desserts, we do a lot of fun stuff too Whether that be Christmas fun days, pancake-flipping competitions, Red Nose Day events or odd-sock days, you'll be coming to work smiling.

**What do you get in return?**

Financial

Competitive Salary DOE

Pension

4x Life Assurance/Death in Service Benefit

Access to 'Company Shop' - a discounted re-distributor of surplus food and household products

Health & Wellbeing

25 days holiday per annum (plus statutory holidays)

24/7 Access to a GP

24/7 Health & Wellbeing Support

Personal & Professional Development

Dedicated in-house Learning & Development/Training team

Online training platform with access to 100+ training courses

A few other bits

Quarterly and Yearly BBF Star Awards - recognising those who have gone above and beyond

Free on-site parking

Free refreshments

**Recruitment Agencies**

We operate a recruitment PSL when we require assistance, and we aren't adding to this at present. Any agency assistance will be instructed accordingly; therefore, any CVs sent to any BBF Limited employee will be treated as a gift and won't be liable for a fee. Please don't speculatively contact us in relation to this vacancy or any other vacancy.

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