Production Planner

Job Specification –Production Planner

Reports to:

General Manager
Role

Purpose:

The role of the Production Planner is to plan and control the flow of materials, information and resources to meet sales requirements and all deadlines whilst ensuring OTIF service levels are met
Key Accountabilities

• Efficient planning of end-to-end process

• Scheduling chilled and frozen food manufacturing to maximise customer service level

• Resource planning

• Capacity modelling

• Campaign stock build

• Plan attainment analysis

• Forecast analysis and tracking

• Liaising with procurement, production and sales depts

• Reporting / presenting performance metrics
Person Specification
Skills & Abilities

• Strong and proven organisational and planning skills

• Strong attention to detail

• Effective problem-solving skills

• Customer focus

• Able to work well under pressure in a fast-moving production environment

• Strong commercial focus

• Teamwork and collaboration
Character & Personal qualities

• Professional and confident

• Strong and effective communication skills

• Self-motivated with a strong result focus

• Passionate about food

• Great Team Player

• Strong and effective negotiation skills

• Big picture thinker:
Looks beyond the obvious

• Assertive with the will to win

• Good judgement and common sense
Qualifications & experience- required

• Previous planning experience in FMCG

• Advanced MS Excel knowledge and capability

• Experience in building and developing planning tools (Excel)
Qualifications & experience- advantageous

• Chilled and frozen food manufacturing experience

• SAGE Experience
Measures of performance:

• OTIF

• Capacity planning

• Finished Goods stock control – fresh and frozen sales

• Forecasting – managing raw material shortages and surpluses

• Efficient production scheduling
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits:

• Casual dress

• Company pension

• Discounted or free food

• Free parking

• On-site parking

Schedule:

• Day shift

• Monday to Friday

• No weekends

Experience:

• Production Scheduling: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location:

In person

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