We are looking for a Materials Supply Planner to join our Yeo Valley family working as part of the Supply Planning Team.
The aim of the team is to deliver the following:
* Production planning & scheduling of Yeo Valley fruits.
* Managing a portfolio of suppliers to raise purchase orders & call offs for all fruit, sweet & savoury materials used by Yeo Valley fruits & Yeo Valley Production.
In the role, you will either be responsible for ensuring the delivery of a portfolio ingredient raw materials (fruit, savoury & ingredients) into the business at the right time, right place and at the optimum cost, or managing the production planning & scheduling of Yeo Valley fruits.
You will provide support for the Lead Supply Planner.
Your responsibilities:
* Ensure sufficient ingredients are available to meet our operational requirements, by managing a portfolio of fruit, sweet & savoury ingredient suppliers.
* Continuous monitoring of ingredient stocks & future forecasts and the subsequent placing of orders & call off orders in line with supplier lead times & business requirements.
* Produce accurate, reliable, and timely reports to ensure stock integrity and accurate inventory. Proactively manage any upcoming, critical risks and issues with stock within your portfolio of suppliers.
* Build excellent relationships with our ingredient suppliers, enabling effective reporting of OTIF & delivery discrepancies to ensure correct invoicing of fruit and ingredients delivered.
* Liaise with the Procurement team to manage the supplier portfolio.
* Liaise with Development, Technical, and Commercial teams to ensure materials are available for customer launch dates.
* Minimise exposure to stock write-off by managing stocks to ensure that products are used before their shelf life expires and that stocks are kept to a minimum whilst ensuring continuity of supply to production sites.
* Deal with customs declarations for materials that require them with the relevant party.
* Build and maintain excellent relationships, confidence, and trust with internal teams to create shared understanding and effective solutions.
This is a full-time hybrid role working Monday - Friday (40 hours per week), however, applications for a job share will also be considered.
What do I need?
* Good academic level of education.
* Experience in an FMCG business & stock order management.
* Experience of MS Dynamics.
* Smart sheet and other Microsoft packages.
Why should I join the family?
We’re independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts, and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yogurt.
We offer a whole host of benefits including:
* 25 days + bank holidays.
* Non-contributory pension scheme.
* Annual bonus (as part of the Employee Benefit Trust, based on company performance for the year).
* Life cover.
* Cycle to work scheme.
* Subsidised Yeo Valley products and services.
* Preferential rates with our partners.
* Learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow.
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