Buyer Planner

**We’re looking for a Buyer Planner join our Team**, this is an exciting role with a lot of opportunity to learn, grow and develop your career

The **Buyer Planner **will have responsibility for planning, scheduling, and coordinating factory manufacturing activity across multiple departments (processes ranging from forging, stamping, rumbling, CNC machining, sewing, final assembling, and despatch) and will also be responsible for purchasing to support manufacturing and the wider organisation, and to manage inventory to strategic targets.

**The Company**

International Safety Components (ISC) is a leading global provider of height safety equipment. We design and manufacture equipment for a variety of industries including Arborist, Rope Access, Rope Rescue, and Adventure Parks.

As an industry pioneer with origins dating back to 1966, ISC has a reputation for developing innovative safety solutions for workers at height. At our company headquarters in North Wales, our highly-skilled design and manufacturing team takes our innovative product ideas and transforms them from raw materials to finished products. We maintain rigorous product testing and quality assurance programs, and employ state of the art machinery operated by experienced technicians and operators to ensure our products are of the highest quality.

Key elements to our success are our company values and culture. As a team-oriented, independent company, we care about people - from our employees, to our partners, to our customers. We treat working at height as a community - we don’t just want to supply products, we want to engage with our end-users and meet their needs.

Here’s a quick overview of some of the responsibilities you can expect as a **Buyer Planner **with ISC:
Factory Planning & Coordination
- Schedule manufacturing orders and ensure internal schedules, planned strategic inventories, and customer requirements are met.
- Set factory team work direction and prioritize activities to achieve product flow and meet customer needs.
- Monitor factory schedule performance and support key metric collection leading productivity and improvement initiatives.
- Plan purchased and manufactured parts utilizing the best ordering approach (EOQ, min/max, Kanban, MRP, etc).
- Ensure accurate planning parameters are set in planning systems (Epicor ERP) following strategic planning designs based on Lean Manufacturing concepts.
- Communicate regularly with customer service to align shop priorities to meet customer requirements.
- Keep the team informed of and coordinate solutions to manufacturing challenges and issues (staffing & flexing, capacity, machine downtime, etc.).
- Maintain qualified sub-contract supplier relationships to support capacity management and NPD requirements.
- Maintain strong coordination with New Product Development Team and be responsible for planning and procurement for assigned product families.

Purchasing
- Plan and execute the flow of procured material from the supplier into the factory ensuring inventory performance to targets.
- Negotiate purchase order supplier quotes to achieve purchasing productivity and supplier cost management.
- Ensure the standard cost system is kept up to date.
- Establish efficient purchasing guidelines supporting inventory metrics and process efficiencies with supplier partners.
- Follow up with suppliers as necessary, to resolve delivery problems, cost changes, or quality issues.

Inventory
- Manage inventory (WIP & Purchased) to ensure strategic inventory design targets are on plan.
- Manage surplus and obsolete inventory and actively disposition inventory if required.
- Manage assigned product to meet customer service and inventory plans
- Support with stake takes as required.

Reporting
- Report on key deliverables and key process indicators such as inventory DOS and customer service levels
- Perform other duties as assigned

**Criteria**

Personal Qualities
- Ability to communicate at all levels of an organisation.
- Excellent inter-personal skills and a great team player
- Flexibility to support team needs as situations arise and when extra hours may be required
- High attention to detail
- Driven to achieve results
- Positive “can do” attitude

Experience
- Previous experience in a purchasing/planning role preferred.
- Experience in a manufacturing environment preferred.
- Experience using an ERP system preferred.

Knowledge & Skills
- Highly literate and numerate, able to investigate problems and analyse data.
- Strong negotiation skills.
- Well organised and able to prioritise workload and deliver to commitments.
- Structured approach to problem solving and improving processes

**The Package**:
As the **Buyer Planner**, you will be based at our production facility in Llandygai Industrial Estate, Bangor, North Wales. You will benefit from:

- A competitive salary, reflecting skills, competencies, and potential.
- Permanent contract working 39 hours per week, over 4.5 days Monday to