Procurement Planner Location: Leeming Bar Salary: up to £26,000 per annum Hours: Monday – Friday 37.5hrs Type: Permanent Imperial Recruitment Group are currently recruiting for one of our key clients based in Leeming Bar who are looking for a Procurement Planner to support their own growing team on a full time – permanent basis Duties: · Build good working relationships with production and process colleagues to aid day-to-day activities · Preparing and issuing purchase orders according to company purchasing policies and procedures · Confirm purchase orders with vendors including delivery date, quantity, etc · Track and expedite purchase orders by working with suppliers, carriers, etc · Maintain purchase orders within SAP so the system holds the latest details and supports operational plans · Build good work relationship with suppliers and other cross functional team members · Calculate packaging quantities from production plans and place orders with suppliers using MRP · Ensure accurate parameters are reflected in SAP and regularly reviewed to achieve optimum materials inventory holding within the network · Proactively identify slow moving and obsolete material risks, report and follow up by closely working with other functional teams · Regularly check for potential stock-outs due to purchasing delivery delay · Ensure material supply levels are within agreed min/max levels as to meet the daily production requirements · To take ownership of procurement of bespoke materials. · Challenge suppliers on invoice errors. · React to issues on a daily basis created both internally and from suppliers · Forecasting – based on customer and business requirements · Attend daily operations/planning meetings, weekly production meetings. · Provide procurement and planning support for colleagues when required · Develop positive working relationships with internal stakeholders, particularly Planning, Customer Accounts, NPD and Technical Projects team. · This role will be office based, however the need to occasionally take a call out of hours or on a weekend to make decisions may be required Requirements: · Strong organisation and communication skills · Good computer literacy, particularly with Microsoft excel, as you will be accurately updating and maintaining documents and systems · Ability to multitask workloads · Good knowledge of SAP · Excellent time management · Excellent report writing and presentation skills For more information, please get in touch with Imperial Recruitment Group