Supply Chain Planner
Posted 1 week ago by Northwood
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
Telford, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Supply Chain Planner role at Northwood focuses on enhancing production efficiency through effective planning and coordination of supply chain activities. The position involves developing production schedules, managing material availability, and collaborating with site managers to optimize operations. The role is primarily remote but based in Telford, requiring proactive problem-solving and attention to detail. Continuous improvement in planning processes is a key expectation for this position.
Key Responsibilities:
- Developing and issuing daily and weekly production plans aligned to demand and capacity.
- Monitoring and adjusting production schedules in response to machine breakdowns, labour constraints, material shortages, or changes in customer demand.
- Balancing site capacity utilisation, changeover duration, and order priorities to optimise efficiency, and minimise downtime and waste.
- Liaising with site Production/Manufacturing Managers remotely to confirm feasibility of planned schedules.
- Reviewing forecasts and sales orders to ensure accurate production requirements are planned.
- Maintaining optimal stock levels of finished goods to effectively manage available space and minimise shortages.
- Monitoring slow moving and excess inventory and work with stakeholders to reduce obsolescence.
- Ensuring production aligns to agreed loading schedules and transport capacity.
- Raising and managing material orders to ensure availability.
Key Skills:
- Proactive approach to anticipating potential issues.
- Attention to detail for ensuring accuracy across all scheduling.
- Collaborative communication style to keep stakeholders informed.
- Understanding of the impact of planning decisions on costs and service levels.
- Continuous improvement mindset to drive enhancements in planning processes and stock flow.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Telford
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Join Northwood and make a real impact to our Production, ensuring streamlined planning and processes, material availability, transport coordination and outbound movements, and continuous improvement of Supply Chain activities! Considering making an application for this job Check all the details in this job description, and then click on Apply. This role will support many of our sites remotely while predominantly based at Telford.
About the Role
On a typical day, here’s what you’ll be involved in:
- Developing and issuing daily and weekly production plans aligned to demand and capacity.
- Monitoring and adjusting production schedules in response to machine breakdowns, labour constraints, material shortages, or changes in customer demand.
- Balancing site capacity utilisation, changeover duration, and order priorities to optimise efficiency, and minimise downtime and waste.
- Liaising with site Production/Manufacturing Managers remotely to confirm feasibility of planned schedules.
- Reviewing forecasts and sales orders to ensure accurate production requirements are planned.
- Maintaining optimal stock levels of finished goods to effectively manage available space and minimise shortages.
- Monitoring slow moving and excess inventory and work with stakeholders to reduce obsolescence.
- Ensuring production aligns to agreed loading schedules and transport capacity.
- Raising and managing material orders to ensure availability.
Benefits
- Company pension
- Life assurance
- Sick pay
- Free company products
- Free on-site parking
- Food, retail, holidays, cinema, and gyms discounts
- Wellness programmes, including Employee Assistance Program and OnDemand GP service
- Free early access to pay scheme
- Salary sacrifice schemes
- Employee referral scheme
Requirements
About you: You adopt a proactive approach, anticipating potential issues and taking early action to mitigate. Demonstrating attention to detail, you ensure accuracy across all scheduling. Your collaborative communication style will keep all stakeholders informed in a timely manner. xlqdzyr Commercially, you understand the impact of planning decisions on costs and service levels. Continuous Improvement mindset: you drive improvements in the planning process and stock flow, working with the wider team