Materials & Planning Manager

Salary: £48,000 – £66,000 per year

Materials & Planning Manager

Elland

Salary Negotiable DOE

Hours 37.5 M-F (flex start and finish between 7.30am and 6.00pm)

Skillection are working with their growing client in Elland assisting them with the recruitment of a Materials & Planning Manager for their business.

How You Can Help Us

• Take overall responsibility for production planning, schedule adherence and continuity of supply for production related raw materials.

• Lead motivate and coach the team to deliver a consistently high performance, to achieve their KPIs and meet their training and development needs.

• Responsible for service delivery of all direct shipments, managing the picking plan and priorities.

• Maintain product availability for all international warehouses.

• Manage global inventory levels for manufactured, bought-in products, raw materials and develop routes to reduce SLOBs.

• Review and manage demand vs. capacity, delivering solutions to mitigate bottlenecks.

• Play a key role in product life cycle management.

• Maintain a close working relationship with the Production management team with a focus on delivering efficiency, output and waste reduction.

• Assist the Purchasing manager with pricing and sourcing exercises for bought in products.

• Implement a vendor management/supplier performance system to ensure we are receiving the best possible service at the best possible price.

• Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

• Ensure IT systems in place are effective, maintained and review opportunities to standardise and streamline them.

What We Would Like You to Bring to Our Team

Essential

• Proven production planning and materials management experience in a dynamic end to end manufacturing environment.

• A good understanding of the importance of OEE/LEAN/waste from a production perspective and how to effectively balance a plan.

• Experience of proactively identifying and mitigating bottlenecks and how to overcome them.

• Proven leadership and communication skills with a team focused approach to coaching and training.

• Experienced in the use of MRP systems.

• Experienced in the use and implementation of LEAN methodologies in a dynamic manufacturing environment.

• Previous vendor management experience for “bought in” materials.

• Able to persuade & influence others to adopt a common purpose.

• Effective decision-making abilities, self-motivated & ambitious.

• Flexible in approach and able to quickly learn & adapt to changing circumstances.

• Promote best practice and high standards including – ‘right first time’.

Desirable

• Experience of production planning in an environment that experiences seasonality.

• Experience of dealing with a complex product range that experiences frequent changes, launches and obsolescence.

• Knowledge of Oracle NetSuite and/or Preactor.

• An understanding and experience of working capital/inventory/SLOBs.

• Previous customer service experience and an understanding of how commercial pressures can impact the supply chain and vice versa.

This is a great opportunity to join at a time of rapid growth. We have huge global demand for

our products due to our leading-edge safety innovation, with subsidiaries in seventeen

countries. We offer a fast-paced, energetic, and creative environment, working with the latest

technologies.

Other group benefits include 25 days annual leave, pension scheme, option to buy holidays scheme, Cycle to Work scheme, retail discounts and free secure parking.