Purchasing Planner

**Work with us**
The purchasing planner manages and optimises stock redistribution across the network, ensuring maximum availability for our customers. This role requires strong analytical skills, attention to detail, proactive communication, and collaboration across various business streams. The role also supports the business by providing detailed reports and ensuring stock-related decisions are aligned with the company’s commercial goals.
**The Day to Day**
- Plan and coordinate the redistribution of stock across the network to maintain optimal availability
- Monitoring stock levels, identifying and raising potential stock issues in a timely manner
- Liaise with warehouses to organise and prioritise additional stock movements
- Collaborate with sales and marketing teams to facilitate any additional stock requirements
- Generate and distribute reports to provide insights and updates for various internal departments
- Review fleet business performance, ensuring maximum availability is maintained
- Monitor and report on quality assurance

**Who we're looking for**
- 3+ years related experience working within purchasing, procurement or supply chain functions
- Applicants should want to champion and drive change, pioneer new ideas and approaches, think outside of the box and seek to share information in a proactive and constructive manner whilst retaining the ability to manage the smaller details
- High attention to detail and accuracy is essential
- Excellent working knowledge of Excel
- Extensive analytical skills and strong mathematical abilities
- Collaborative skills in resolving long and short positions in inventory
- Excellent time management and prioritisation skills
- You need to be strong enough to keep calm and diplomatic when under pressure
- This role can require quick thinking to spot trends, evaluate large amounts of data and make sound decisions. Things can change very quickly and there are always deadlines to meet

**The Perks**
You’ll get an industry-leading benefits package, including:
Discount at supermarkets and high street retailers
- 31 days’ holiday (based on 5-day week) inclusive of bank holidays
- Up to 50% off at Kwik Fit
- Wagestream—access your wages before payday
- Eyecare—free examinations
- Easy-book appointments with a free online GP
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Free mortgage advice
- Life assurance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced paternity leave

**About us**
Behind the scenes we’re central to the UK’s Automotive infrastructure, with 80+ years of industry experience. We’ve built an amazing business in that time - the strategic locations of our distribution hubs around the UK means we can supply various businesses same-day with a huge range of tyres. Did you know, 1 out of 3 tyres you see on the road are supplied by us? This is what makes Stapleton’s a great place to build your future.

Job Reference: STS02862