Scheduler / Planner

2 weeks ago

Chippenham, United Kingdom Synergie Full time

Acorn is currently offering this unique opportunity for a Scheduler / Planner or a graduate from university with a background in export or production planning with good excel skills to join their clients team working four days on, four days off, from 6am-6pm.
Hours: 4 on 4 off, 6am - 6pm

**Salary**: £29,000 - £30,000 per annum
Example of role responsibilities:

- Using forward planning, you'll use sales forecasting and historical information to highlight anomalies in non-attainment, including product shortages, so issues can be discussed and reviewed with the senior team
- Meeting forums must be introduced so that all team members concerned have an opportunity to review data and plan for bottlenecks
- Expect accurate stock takes from the operations team and challenge non-conformances. This behaviour must be driven hard in order to ensure the business planning accuracy is sustained within peak periods.
- Ensure sales orders are processed in a timely manner, check their accuracy and measure against forecast
- Carry out reconciliation of PODs order to ensure that customer claims are minimised
- Ensuring all orders are completed to the customer's satisfaction, by the correct
quality specification in the most cost efficient method
- To have an open and honest relationship with the Operations Director to be able to discuss problems and concerns, roadblocks, and new ideas in a positive manner
Your experience:

- Planning experience in manufacturing (desirable)
- To strategically plan, the business performance using the sales forecast and historical data in order to ensure customer orders are met
- To analyse this data and highlight obstacles that stop these orders being achieved (ie. availability and find alternatives for the customer)
- Plan availability and communicate the collection plan with the transport manager
- Measure and publish production, sales and producer performance against an agreed plan
- Ensure goods are received and all PODs are balanced prior to submitting to the accounts team
- To create daily plans for the operations team highlighting capacity issues so that labour can be correctly planned in order to hit budget
- Forward plan seasonal activity and new products and ensure the team are fully briefed so that capacity issues can be dealt with in a timely manner
- Proactively work within the senior management team to improve business performance challenging the status quo and supporting other colleagues to achieve their own objectives
- To ensure that food materials dispatched are safe, legal and of the quality expected by the business and customer
Essential:

- Good written and spoken English
- Must have excellent Excel skills
- Computer literate with knowledge of Microsoft packages
- Excellent communication and organisational skills
- Self motivated
- Strong multi-tasking skills
- Health and Safety awareness
For more information on this job role, please get in touch with Kristy Moore at Acorn.
Acorn by Synergie acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment.

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