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Inventory Planner

Telford

Permanent

£30,000 - £40,000 – DOE

25 days annual leave + Stats

Additional annual leave available to buy

Healthcare cash plan

Company Pension Scheme

Life Assurance

Hybrid working (2 days per week WFH)

Are you a whizz at forecasting and maintaining sufficient stock levels?

Do you love the challenge of working to achieve that perfect balance of keeping the product levels “just right”?

This company are at the leading edge of innovation and offers some of the most sought-after products within their market. Having worked hard to obtain a strong global presence, they have passion and drive soaked through their culture and their people.

Their Inventory Management team are critical to their success, so you would be part of a valued department, with members who put their heart and soul into making sure their customer isn’t left without, at the same time ensuring the organisation doesn’t have unreasonable amounts of cash tied up in stock on the shelves.

Supporting the Purchasing Manager, the Supply Chain / Inventory Planner will take overall responsibility for material forecasting, ordering, scheduling and other supply chain activities to ensure product availability to the end customer.

What you will be getting involved in as the Inventory Planner?

* You will be supporting the Purchasing Manager and other members in forecasting, demand planning and ensuring purchase orders are raised with their global supplier base and manufacturers

* You’ll be looking at sales data and using this to guide your decisions around purchasing stock

* Making sure supplier issues are avoided, or if unavoidable are resolved quickly

* Expediting and de-expediting stick with suppliers based in the UK and abroad

* Monitor SKU performance and ensure guidelines for availability, value and stock turn are met

* Working closely with category managers to monitor performance throughout the product lifecycle

What experience will you need?

* You will have worked in a similar role within Inventory Planning / Purchasing / Stock Control / Materials Planning / Materials Control / Supply Chain within the distribution sector and have excellent knowledge of stock/inventory management processes.

* If you know about international trading and have a grasp on UK/EU customs requirements, then that would be great.

* You will need to be confident with using MS Excel and familiar with its data analysis features

The application process:

Our mission is to support our clients in their creation of an equal, diverse and inclusive workforce. We are committed to providing a barrier-free recruitment process, so if you require any reasonable accessibility adjustments within the application process, then please make it known at the earliest opportunity.

We will carefully consider your details and advise you if we're able to progress with your application within 72 working hours. If you do not hear from us within this time your details won’t be retained. So, if you're not successful on this occasion, do continue to respond to future roles we advertise. In the meantime, all good wishes and continued success with your search for employment.

About Us

Prince Personnel are an employment agency working on behalf of our client. Whether you’re seeking a new permanent position, temporary assignment or contract you’ll find us easy to deal with. Located in thriving Telford, we focus on jobs in Shropshire, Staffordshire and North Wales. Prince Personnel specialise in commercial, accounts and finance and technical recruitment. With the best jobs around we are an independent agency working hard for you.

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