About the Role:
Who are we, and what do we do?
You may not have heard of us, but there’s a good chance you’ve enjoyed our products. Avara Foods is one of the UK’s leading food businesses, supplying chicken and turkey to the country’s major supermarkets and well-known restaurants.
We own and manage our entire supply chain, from farms to factory and all the way to the customer door – meaning we have careers that cover a whole range of functions. We have major processing sites across England and Wales, and an agricultural network of over 350 farms, spanning from North Yorkshire to the South Coast and Wales.
A little about our Wednesbury site:
Our advanced manufacturing site in Wednesbury, West Midlands, is our newest advanced manufacturing site, and we’ve invested around £4.7 million into state-of-the-art facilities.
Our Wednesbury site is a flagship Added Value centre for Avara, which employ over 150 talented individuals at the site, who help to supply some of the UK’s largest supermarkets and popular restaurants!
About the Role:
Are you passionate about optimising performance results? Looking for a new challenge? Do you have experience in materials coordination or planning?
The Materials Planner will manage the planning and scheduling of all resources, such as packaging and ingredients, to ensure that the plant meets the production plans and schedules.
The role is based at our Wednesbury site.
This role provides real time co-ordination and optimisation of materials and labour capacity. Enabling the site to effectively track and meet order deadlines in a fast moving, frequently changing environment.
The role is mainly office based, however you may be required to enter in to the factory environment so you’ll be exposed to a fast-paced, dynamic FMCG factory environment which is noisy and refrigerated in some areas, manufacturing short shelf life products where hygiene standards are critical.As a Materials Planner you’ll be working Monday to Friday 08.00 to 17.00
What will your key responsibilities as Materials Planner include?
1. Manage the stock of materials on site, ensuring that materials are always available to meet production requirements.
2. Ordering all ingredients and packaging, always considering lead times and shelf life.
3. Monitoring the sales forecast and responding to any change.
4. Build and maintain a Bill Of Materials (BOM) spreadsheet, and then monitor daily, flagging any incorrect usages.
5. Liaise with suppliers and manage all ingredient and packaging stock takes, ensuring correct stock rotation,
6. Cross check all deliveries to site.
7. Prepare for new product launches, key moments and Christmas, ensuring all packaging in place to meet deadlines.
8. Helping avert potential service level and performance issues by escalating variances
9. Tracking daily packing and preparation schedules ensuring fulfilment of the plan
10. Continually tracking actual performance versus planned performance to help push corrective actions.
What you’ll need to be successful:
11. Previous experience of stock control and replenishment practices, ideally within the food industry.
12. Previous experience within a fast moving manufacturing or production environment.
13. Ability to build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
14. An effective communicator at all levels, with strong attention to detail
15. Analytical with the ability to multi task and prioritise workload in a pressurised environment
16. A high standard of IT proficiency including using Microsoft Excel to collate and present data.
17. Self-motivated with a flexible and conscientious approach to work
The benefits of working for Avara Foods:
As a Materials Planner you will enjoy a secure, supportive and progressive working environment, where your contribution and achievements will be recognised and rewarded.
We offer comprehensive training as well as continuous development as you build your long-term career with us. You can also look forward to benefits that amongst other things, include the following:
18. £32,000-£37,000 per annum DOE
19. 31 days holiday allowance
20. Secure contract with long term career development opportunities
21. Straight forward pension contribution of 4%]
22. Life assurance
23. Cycle to work scheme
24. Salaried Advance Finance
25. Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme
26. Access to our Employee Benefit Scheme, which includes unlimited remote GP appointments and unlimited mental health sessions, physiotherapy sessions, medical second opinion consultation, and other discounts and perks, such as savings & discounts on weekly costs.