Materials Supply Planner

So, what will I be doing?

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.

This is a Job share Role - Working 24 hrs per week (Mon-Fri)

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 forecast 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. To proactively manage any upcoming, critical risks and issues with stock within your portfolio of suppliers.
• Ensure cost effective ingredient orders.
• To build excellent relationships with our ingredient suppliers. Enabling effective reporting of OTIF & delivery discrepancies to ensure the correct invoicing of fruit and ingredients delivered.
• Liaise with the Procurement team to manage 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.

Sounds interesting, what do I need?

Essential

• Good academic level of education.
• Experience in a FMCG business & stock order management.
• Confident Communicator
• Excellent IT skills & MS Office skills.
• Excellent numeracy & literacy skills.
• Effective time management skills.

Desirable

• 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're sure you don't need convincing, but there's a whole host of benefits that we offer including:

• 25 days +