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Senior Supply Planner

Employer
Vertical Advantage
Location
Surrey
Salary
£40000 - £45000 per annum + bonus and benefits
Closing date
29 Nov 2018

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Business Sector
Food & Drink
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Function
Supply Chain & Logistics

Job Details



An organisation with a unique portfolio within the FMCG industry is looking for a Senior Supply Planner to join their values-led company based in Surrey. Our client is looking for someone they can help develop and empower throughout their career with them.

The responsibilities of the Senior Supply Planner are to ensure customer availability to their finished products is always supporting the target levels. Where necessary this may require adjusting conflicting objectives of quality, quantity and working capital.

The Role
  • Manage and maintain the delivery and accuracy of the production on a monthly basis
  • Take part and lead the supply side of the S&OP process to give suppliers an idea of their capacity planning and budgeting
  • Build and develop the relationship with the suppliers to ensure an established relationship to meet inventory, service and cost requirements of their production
  • Leading a small team of 2 who will be focused on day to day planning
  • Responsible for working alongside other managers to ensure that all changes to current products or all new products are managed efficiently with the suppliers


The Person
  • Graduate calibre or equivalent working experience
  • A strong understanding and a background of planning ideally from a FMCG environment
  • Highly analytical with a good attention to detail
  • Ability to understand customer needs both internally and externally by identifying opportunities to deliver value throughout the organisation
  • Has effective communication skills both verbally and in writing. It is important that communication is clear, concise and can be persuasive
  • Someone with a strong work ethic and ability to take ownership of a process/ situation, engaging with the business as a whole and see it all the way through to resolution

Company

Vertical Advantage have a rich history in sourcing within the FMCG and Grocery marketplace. We specialise in placing candidates in the mid to senior end of the market within Category Management, National Accounts, Marketing, Supply Chain and Logistics.

We guarantee comprehensive support and expert guidance through professional consultants with proven track records from industry. At Vertical Advantage we are proud of how accomplished our people are and how they have built exceptional networks over their time in the recruitment sector. It is these networks that will give you confidence to work with us.

Our first instinct is to search and this is ingrained in the fabric of our work. We leave no stone unturned to deliver exceptional people for exceptional businesses. Our way of operating suits today's working lifestyle where people are short on time and need to make hiring decisions based on seeing low numbers of high calibre candidates.

Vertical Advantage is a lean, flexible consultancy that works with our clients and candidates to find the right solutions for them.

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