Materials Planner

**Materials Planner**
**Permanent**
**£35,000 - £40,000 per annum plus 4% bonus**
**Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm**
**Pension, 26 days Holiday plus Bank Holidays, Life Insurance, Free Onsite Parking**
**Leighton Buzzard**
**Materials Planner**
- Monitor and track global component inventory levels to ensure necessary inventory is at owned and vendor locations.
- Manage and adjust inventory levels and execute necessary fulfillment strategy (e.g. inventory reallocation, increasing program inventory etc.). Investigate and eliminate slow moving inventory.
- Ensure component and qualification material readiness for new product launches, extensions & product discontinuation etc. Drive resolutions in line with needs/supply/sourcing for new material and product releases.
- External and internal interface with services, operations, supply chain, transport & global business partners (vendors), to adequately manage component inventory requirements and demands.
- Ensure that SLAs agreed by the Production departments are met to enable customer programmes to operate within agreed parameters.
- Creating invoices within SAP for Customer programmes run thorough business partners
- Provide regular, ongoing reporting that includes, but is not limited to current service levels, program performance, and key performance indicators.
- Support implementation of process and system enhancements to improve supply chain efficiency through business trend analysis.

**Materials Planner**
**Essential Skills/Experience/Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent knowledge and experience in business, production planning, procurement, or a technical/industrial/supply or cold chain field.
- Minimum of three years of customer service or inventory planning-related work experience.
- Must be proficient with SAP Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.

**Materials Planner**
**Desirable Skills/Experience/Qualifications**:

- SAP Systems knowledge
- Logistics and Global experience
- Advanced Excel skills (V look up/Horizontal look up/Pivot tables)