Supply Chain Planner
Posted 4 days ago by Holland & Barrett
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
Nuneaton, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Supply Chain Planner role is a permanent position based in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, focusing on translating commercial demand forecasts into actionable supply plans to ensure product availability. The planner will manage supplier relationships, generate purchase orders, and contribute to process improvements within the supply chain. This position requires collaboration across various teams to enhance efficiency and service levels while minimizing stock risks. The role is hybrid, requiring two days a week in the office.
Key Responsibilities:
- Translate commercial demand forecasts into actionable supply plans.
- Generate purchase orders and coordinate with suppliers to expedite stock flow.
- Monitor and manage open order books, ensuring on-time, in-full delivery.
- Support the implementation of WSSI and Open-to-Buy frameworks.
- Identify gaps and inefficiencies in current ordering and stock flow practices.
- Participate in transformation initiatives, including tool enhancements and planning automation projects.
- Provide data for cross-functional initiatives to improve supply chain performance.
- Maintain visibility of inbound supply and flag potential issues to stakeholders.
- Balance inbound flow with trading activity and inventory constraints.
Key Skills:
- Previous experience in supply planning, order management, or inventory control.
- Proven track record of managing supplier relationships.
- Experience with planning or ERP systems.
- Strong understanding of supply planning principles and inventory management metrics.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with various teams.
- Knowledge of product lifecycle stages and their impact on supply planning.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Nuneaton
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Nuneaton, Warwickshire (Hybrid, 2-days a week in the office)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £Competitive, 25% colleague discount, 28-days annual leave pro rata and much more!
To translate commercial demand forecasts into accurate, actionable supply plans across assigned categories, ensuring timely product availability across all channels. The Supply Planner is responsible for aggregating demand signals, generating purchase orders, and coordinating with suppliers to expedite stock flow and maintain service levels. The role sits at the heart of operational execution—ensuring the right products are ordered in the right quantities, at the right time, to support business growth, minimise stock risk, and maintain customer availability.
Support the implementation and ongoing refinement of the WSSI and Open-to-Buy frameworks across assigned planning categories. Contribute to supply planning process improvements by identifying gaps, inefficiencies, or risks in current ordering, expediting, or stock flow practices. Participate in transformation initiatives, including tool enhancements, data integrations, or planning automation projects. Provide data and input for cross-functional Squad initiatives, helping improve availability, efficiency, and supplier performance across the end-to-end supply chain.
Convert demand forecasts from Commercial Planning into actionable supply plans, generating accurate and timely purchase orders. Monitor and manage open order books, proactively expediting shipments and resolving delays to ensure on-time, in-full delivery. Track supplier OTIF performance and work with Procurement and Supply Chain Ops to address service failures or systemic issues. Maintain visibility of inbound supply, flagging potential gaps, delays, or surplus to key stakeholders. Support availability targets by balancing inbound flow with trading activity, promotional events, and inventory constraints. Use planning tools (e.g., WSSI) to ensure supply plans are aligned with Open-to-Buy budgets and working capital targets.
Previous experience in supply planning, order management, inventory control, or similar roles within a retail or FMCG environment. Proven track record of managing supplier relationships and resolving inbound delivery issues. Experience with planning or ERP systems. Demonstrated ability to support service level targets through strong planning and expediting activity. Experience working cross-functionally with Commercial, Procurement, and Distribution teams. Strong understanding of supply planning principles, including order management, demand translation, and stock flow. Working knowledge of inventory management metrics (e.g., OTIF, DIO, WSSI, aged stock). Familiarity with supply chain systems and tools. Awareness of the broader end-to-end supply chain process, including supplier relationships, commercial forecasting, and distribution operations. Knowledge of product lifecycle stages and how they influence supply planning needs (e.g., NPD, delists, seasonal ranges).
Our Benefits for this role include, but not limited to: H&B Employee Discount - 25% Pension company contribution Exclusive benefits, free advice and savings from a range of retailers and providers And many more!
We're passionate about helping every colleague thrive across all dimensions of wellbeing, and we're committed to having a diverse and inclusive workplace. In line with our EPIC values (Expertise, Pioneering, Inclusive, Caring), we embrace and actively celebrate all our colleagues' unique and varying experiences, backgrounds, identities and cultures - I am me, we are H&B.
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