For example, our last survey found 97% of our employees feel we really care about their health & wellbeing & the same number think we have open & honest communication at all levels…
At the heart of everything is our rich family heritage, an unrelenting ambition to keep innovating, & a true pride in who we are. We are looking for a Supply Chain Planner based in Ross on Wye looking after the Planning and Stock Control of Finished Goods and Raw Materials.
the rest of the Supply Chain Team and the Procurement Team the role will be responsible for planning Raw Material orders; Finished Goods scheduling and Longer-Term planning.
while managing stock levels in accordance with stock policies and ingredient shelf-life constraints; The successful candidate will be involved in a varied range of supply chain related aspects, becoming part of a small but multi-skilled team.
Creating short-term and long-term production plan based on demand requirements, ensuring inventory policy is adhered to and stock is available to meet Nichols’ customer needs.
Creating Sales and Operations planning inputs ensuring that demand changes are understood and communicated to suppliers, capacity impacts are understood and communicated within the Business.
Maintaining relationships with Supplier via regular interaction to ensure performance issues are reviewed, issues managed and escalated when and where required.
Raising purchase orders for inbound deliveries and communicate all transport requirements to the 3PL’s including tracking the 3PL performance.
Owning NPI projects delivery - this will include tracking supply chain elements of product launches & delists, managing existing product run out as well as communicating impacts to the business before and after the event.
Creating inventory plan to demonstrate warehousing and transport requirements. Collate daily, weekly, periodical copacker performance data for supply chain KPI process.
Working with demand planning team to get information of customer demand and convert the information for management. Highlighting risks to service level SKUs within the business.
Carrying out Capacity Planning and modelling scenarios to establish opportunities and risks.
Analysing and maintain a Supply Chain Stock Policy to ensure optimum balance between customer service and minimised cost.
Supporting and maintaining Master Data in relevant systems.
Planning within a food manufacturing environment
Scheduling production lines to optimise efficiency whilst balancing against Inventory and shelf-life constraints
Material management, planning and ordering
A good level of experience and understanding of Microsoft applications, such as Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
25 days holiday (with opportunity to buy extra every year)
~ Private medical cover
~ Your birthday day off work
~1 day a year off work to volunteer in the community (you choose when and where)
~ A generous pension scheme
~ Annual Bonus
~ Save as you Earn Share Scheme
While our people tell us Nichols plc is a great place to work, we know we can do more. We are striving to ensure we are building more diverse teams, we are at our best when we bring together our different life experiences, ways of thinking and individuality.
Unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor visas.